Keine ruhige Minute [English translation]

In all those years

What have I actually done

When days were still daylong

How did I fill them up

Without repairing toys

Without the terror disturbing your nerves

Without walking on four feet with you

Through our house playing your horse

No calm minute

Is left over for me since then

And that will go on like this, as I imagine

Until I'm a hundred years old

Today you fill up my life

That much that I have forgotten

What was there back then

When you weren't there yet

Back then I thought I knew everything

Until you took away my certainty

I never thought I'd missed anything

Until the day you came

No calm minute...

Our house hadn't started living

Before your cries started to fill it

Before doors were jammed and corridors trembeled

And before someone sang songs in there

Back then I was an old scum

Moving and readjusting and turning our furniture

However, a house isn't really a home

Before a cradle is inside

No calm minute...

I have measured out depths and highlands

I was full of fears and happiness

But that was a slow overture

Of what I'm going to experience wiht you

Since you're coming and giving

A completely new dimension to everything

And whatever the years might bring from now on

You'll be the measure, little person

No calm minute...

• Artist:Reinhard Mey
• Album:Mein Apfelbäumchen