Stolpersteine [English translation]

Still going around

Early in the morning, half past four, it got late

Two fingers of rum in my glass

To come down on the way

Think of you today at the rave

I would like to see you again

Wait a bit, I stop

Brass blocks on my way

I bow down

There lived a woman with a name here

I read numbers

Born in the twenties

Deported to Poland

Deported in April

Murdered in the last days

Stumbling blocks, stumbling blocks

Stumbling blocks everywhere

Stumbling blocks, stumbling blocks

Stumbling blocks in my street

Stumbling blocks, stumbling blocks

Stumbling blocks at the next door

I stumble over

Okay, stumbling blocks in my street

Birds sing and I cry

There could be any name written here, any name

Any name, but there's yours written here

What might have happened? She was in her twenties

Same age, did she like to go dancing?

Queen of the ballroom, just like you

Yes, just like you, queen in the club

I sit down in front of her door

She used to come and go here

Did she also sit here, here in the neighbourhood, where everyone knows each other

I imagine her giving me a smile

Was it a morning just like this?

The street empty, without people, when the car came

Wheels squeak, first tram

Everyone watches, but no light goes on

Sun rises, I'm still sitting here

I breathe and I smoke, what happened?

Nooses are being tied again

Knives are being whetted again

No, not at another place, here and now

The womb he crawled from is still going strong

Still going strong, the womb he crawled from

Anger wants to eat me, but I don't let myself get eaten

I think of the two of us at the rave

I think of your smile