Wer nie durch Scherben ging [English translation]

I did a lot of travelling,

experienced quite a few depressions,

and I also know this feeling of happiness

when things finally start to improve.

There were days without sun,

then I thought:

It can get only better now!

And then I laughed.

Because, if I hadn't felt the troubled times

on my own skin,

I would have never touched a star like you.

Who never walked through shards,

never lived.

Who never hung by a thread,

does not know how it works.

Who never lost his heart,

does not know anything about luck.

Who never gave,

does not get back anything, either.

I walked quite a few paths;

not everything went according to plan,

But life paves the way,

and somehow you arrive.

Every love was undying,

but died anyway sometime,

and if you never ever want to love again,

a new one will begin.

And if I, after every farewell, I would have said

to me: I'll never love again -

I do not think that I would have met you.

2x:

Who never walked through shards,

never lived.

Who never hung by a thread,

does not know how it works.

Who never lost his heart,

does not know anything about luck.

Who never gave,

does not get back anything, either.

• Artist:Matthias Reim