Wir hatten den Moment [English translation]

And it would be so easy,

To dial your number,

To not worry anymore,

But the telephone stays where it is.

The thoughts of you are enough,

To move mountains,

To hurt myself again,

To fly away without a parachute.

We held each other so tightly.

I’m totally immersed with you,

totally drowned in you.

What do we care about the rest?

We had the moment, which no one can take away from us any more,

And I think back to it far too often.

We had the moment, but somebody didn’t stop time,

And there only remains the thoughts of hardly lived happiness.

Too clearly, how I see you before me.

I still feel your heart beating,

I hear me saying words,

That don’t encompass all of it.

The thought hurts so much.

Lost myself completely in your eyes.

Only ideas, that don’t achieve anything:

To never let you go again.

We held each other so tightly,

Perhaps only for a few seconds,

Not looked for but found anyway,

That which never leaves us.

We had the moment, which no on can take away from us any more,

And I think back to it every day.

We had the moment, but somebody didn’t stop time,

And there only remains the thoughts of hardly lived happiness.

All I want is just to be with you now,

And lastly to understand that it won’t work.

I want to unfold the moment again.

I just want to hold you one more time...

We had the moment, in which nothing and no one disturbed us,

In which I only belonged to you, just to you.

We had the moment, but someone didn’t stop time.

The moment is long gone and yet so painful here.