Große Dinge English translation
von Georg Danzer

[Disclaimer: This is a translation of the meaning and not word by word as that would be too difficult to get right from slang to slang]

And I can still remember,
It was early in the morning
When the moon was still pale in the sky
I quietly slipped out of the door
I was a small boy

Big things I wanted to do, that was clear [to me]
I ran across the meadow a hundred meters to the forest
with bow and arrow in the small hand
and in the thin morning fog the sun was already up
and the spiderwebs spanning thin threads across the land

Not far away at a clearing
I built a hut [for myself]
Out of brushwood, that laid there on the ground
I felt like a [native/american] Indian
and looked through the branches.


A few blueberries put in my mouth
I was free and unbound, noone said anything to me
Only an owl from afar was to be heard
And so the day passed like that until dusk
I felt I liked whole region
including the stars

To accomplish big things, was my biggest wish
Big things that little boys believe in
Defeat evil dragons, free a princess
and smack the neighbours boy
How he'd look

To accomplish big things, was my biggest wish
Big things that little boys believe in
Sing stupid teachers into the ground and free my girlfriend
and smack the neighbours boy


How he'd look
And I can still remember,
when it turned evening
When I went home my Nan already waited
She complained "You re so dirty,
What you look like, on my god"
But then she did not skimp on the emperors pancake
To accomplish big things, was my biggest wish
Big things that little boys believe in
By now it all is in perspective
but the emperors pancake I'd like to have again
It was dream-like