Weißes Papier English translation
von Element of Crime

I'll take your cat and shake it out
Until everything falls out
That it ever ate from my hand
Later, I'll beat out the carpet
And if I find a hair of mine in it
I'll just pocket it
Nothing should remind you badly
Of what I once was to you

Don't say it's not necessary
Because it only gets painful afterward
When what once was comes back up
Then better to be as clean and dumb as white paper


I'll also be different in the future
Than the one you saw in me
The pants you crocheted for me
I'll throw into the Salvation Army container

I eat on the floor, with my hands
Watch every cartoon on TV
Everything you don't like, I'll praise
I'll just be as clean and dumb as white paper

Not even the sea can I see again
Where the wind misses your hair
Where every wave is a sigh
And every grain of sand a look from you

I'd rather be an astronaut
And fly to stars where nothing is familiar
And spoiled by a touch from you
I'll never be as clean and dumb as white paper again