Du entschuldige - I kenn' di English translation
von Peter Cornelius

When I often look a little into the fool's box
Then I see a girl with eyes so blue
A blue that can't be compared to anything else
She was the declared heartthrob at school
Of me and all my friends, but then
On the last day of school, life put its switches
We immediately lost sight of each other
I often asked myself what had become of her
The paths we both took
Were not the same
And the day before yesterday I was sitting in a pub
I look into two eyes and suddenly I know
It's this blue that can't be compared to anything else


Excuse me, I know you
Aren't you the little one
Who I already liked as a boy
Who was already flirtatious at thirteen
More than what was allowed
And wore the tight jeans
I didn't sleep for nights
Just because you were in the schoolyard
Once you winked your eyes
Come on, let's cross off fifteen years
Catch up on everything now
As if there was just nothing in between

She looks at me for half a minute
She looks so that I can't say anything anymore
I sit like paralyzed opposite of her and can't believe it
I can't hear any more music and I'm just waiting
For her to finally say, you, now I'm waking up now
Peter, who lived ten houses away has in the alley
She winks at me like she did fifteen years ago
She says “How are you, my Peter, of course
You haven't been heard from for a very long time”
I just nod yes, yes, for far too long
She says come on, let's just try it with each other now
And later, laughing, I say to her once on the street


Excuse me, I know you
Aren't you the little one
Who I already liked as a boy
Who was already flirtatious at thirteen
More than what was allowed
And wore the tight jeans
I didn't sleep for nights
Just because you were in the schoolyard
Once you winked your eyes
Come on, let's cross off fifteen years
Catch up on everything now
As if there was just nothing in between

Excuse me, I know you
Aren't you the little one
Who I already liked as a boy
Who was already flirtatious at thirteen
More than what was allowed
And wore the tight jeans
I didn't sleep for nights
Just because you were in the schoolyard
Once you winked your eyes
Come on, let's cross off fifteen years
Catch up on everything now
As if there was just nothing in between