Wenn Sie diesen Tango hört [English translation]

She is sitten on her old couch

Which comes from the time of the economic miracle

Two birthday cards on the table

Dallas is over since a while

All the best for the sixty-first birthday,

Dear Granny, bye for now

The kids are big now and away from the home

The flat is often cold.

She's got always something to do

She portions the housework

And every evening she relaxes

And switches the TV on

It has not always been this way

Just since she is alone

Since her husband died

Whom she misses with teary eyes

She liked so much to dance with him

And sometimes, when it hurts too much

She plays the old favourite record

And dances for herself alone

When she hears this old tango

She forgets the time

How she lives now is far, far away

Like a star that burned down long ago

Chased away and expelled from her native place

After Hitler's grand war

She paid a lot for the German dream of victory

Then the long and hard rebuilding

For a little happiness

The longed for owner-occupied story

Children for the republic

They shall have it better one day

That is why she worked painstakingly

So often there was not much time left

To spend time with her husband

A whole life together

Suffered, drudged, economised

Now there was time for more at last

Now he is not here anymore

• Artist:Pur
• Album:Wie im Film