Schlaflos [English translation]

Cable car timetables, well-known maps

Head full of bad deeds, pockets full of deposit tokens

Go home, sleep it off, it’s already late

Reaction time, closing time, buy the last round

Until I’m the last one, well-known wounds tear open

Go home, sleep it off, as well as possible

I’m the last shadow that still wanders through the alleyways

In my hand, a light that will fade with time

Let the match burn as long as possible

I take the final train, go this distance again

At home, blanket over my head and stare at the cover

The key’s inserted, I lock you out, but it’s too late

You’re so loud in my head and everything’s spinning

I try to forget you, but it doesn’t work

I lie awake and remain helpless

What should I do? You make me sleepless

The silence pesters me, it tears me apart

Count the hours until morning and I don’t know

What has to happen? I remain helpless

What should I do? You make me sleepless

Sleepless, sleepless, sleepless...

Midnight, mental cinema, Super Eight projection

But the thoughts are asynchronous in vision and sound

A projector that only works splutteringly

The wallpaper in the rooms doesn’t stop reminding

Your shadows are still here and flicker

As if projected on the walls through hidden apertures

The film strips are stick in the same loops

The pictures jump like an insect that doesn’t get helped

The buzzing bewilders me and it keeps me awake

Limbs get warm as if feverish, breath cold

What digs barbs into my sheets

Is the fear of the night and what it does with me

You’re so loud in my head and everything’s spinning

I try to forget you, but it doesn’t work

I lie awake and remain helpless

What should I do? You make me sleepless

The silence pesters me, it tears me apart

Count the hours until morning and I don’t know

What has to happen? I remain helpless

What should I do? You make me sleepless

Sleepless, sleepless, sleepless...

What should I do? You make me sleepless

Cable car timetables, well-known maps

Head full of bad deeds, pockets full of deposit tokens

Go home, sleep it off, it’s already late...

Oh, oh, oh, oh

• Artist:Jennifer Rostock
• Album:Schlaflos