Der Spinner English translation
von Nina Hagen

I walk along a platform and don't know
Whether I should leave here or what
Ey, look, there's an express train and it keeps driving
A cop from the train shows up

I hold the letter in my hand
It says: you feel dead as stone

And that you are now looking for a forest
To build yourself a bed in moss
Your giant saxophone is of course there too
And flutes, flutes shall grow in the meadow

The old woman pays with small change
We're waiting for the next train


I ask the old woman where the forest is
She says: "My Udo is long dead"

There's a piece of candy stuck in my pocket
We get on our train

At Wertheim there were salamanders
I'll bring you one to the moss

When I get off the train in Hamburg
I walk through streets to the Elbe
Down to the river

There I see you standing on the shore
I touch you and stuff, you don't hear anything
You say, you have to go to the other shore
The ferry leaves the next day

I thought you lived deep in the forest
I knew nothing of your shores