Über dir der Mond English translation
von Element of Crime

You have no business here, go home.
At the end of this corridor is the door.
And when you are outside, do not look up
and do not look to the side, only look down.

For as if your heart were a large room,
with cold dust on chairs, tables, bed and stove,
in which no one has lived for many years,
so pale and cold the moon hangs over you.


The river you walk along is black and mighty,
no one sees it and doesn't then freeze.
Longing dreams thrive splendidly in him,
in everyone who loves him, but not in you.

And as if your heart were a landing bridge,
on silted-up waters, far away from the sea,
where waiting is no longer worthwhile,
so pale and cold the moon hangs over you.

Like cold tears is the rain,
like breathless is the wind,
like wet eyes are the stars,
if those are even still stars.


And as if your heart were an old sailor,
holding the telescope the wrong way around, and everything is so very
far away that it spares the weary eyes.
So pale and cold the moon hangs over you.