Kleiner Kamerad [English translation]

For you everything is wholesome

And big and good and kept away from error

No wrong success ever took away your braveness

And for you there are still miracles, at all times and of all types

How much I like to see you believe in your miracles

How much you cling to them unerringly

No doubt can ever rob your optimism

And I almost start believing with you again myself

Like colourful lampions on autumn ways

You're swinging through my mind

Happily and worryless and it's due to you

If for once I'm again happy and worryless, too

The smallest nothing makes you passionate

On the other and world moving things leave you cold

No quarrel may ever put you down

And your tears dry soon over the biggest sorrow

You don't forget anything and you can forget so easily

Waht ever puts you down is simply inexistent

I'm learning to measure anew with your arm's length

And to understand many things around together with you

Like kites that highly go up over the stubble field

You're dancing through my mind

Without gravity, free and with the dance

All my sadness is flying along

I like them a lot, your uncountable questions

Your curiosity and worrylessness

How much I like you saying "Come and help me"

Sometimes I wish I could hold on to this time

The world will probably get a little emptier

With every way you're going on your own

My mind will probably get a little heavier

With everything you can do by yourself and understand without me

My little comrade, that's the way it is

There is no extra portion for us

Best friends are seperated by this life

And one day it makes adults out of little boys

• Artist:Reinhard Mey
• Album:Mein Apfelbäumchen