Roman English translation
von Philipp Poisel

Bold on all pages
Each word in capital letters
Don't spread me like leaflets
Will stand securely in one place

Like a Bible, solid and holy
Immutably eternally true
And not as part of many parts
Wants to stand alone like an eternal book

I want to be a novel on the pages of your life
Written in ink, black ink from your heart
I want to be a hurricane, not a short story
A manifesto that you get up for at night


Like Robinson and Friday
On an island somewhere
Just like Romeo and Juliet
Summer rain, Midsummer night's dream

I want to be a novel on the pages of your life
Written in ink, black ink from your heart
I want to be a hurricane, not a short story
A manifesto that you get up for at night

And what else I wanted to tell you
Doesn't fit on a piece of paper anymore
If I could read your eyes
What would you, what would you tell me?

I want to be a novel on the pages of your life
Written in ink, black and blue ink from your heart
I want to be a hurricane, not a short story
A manifesto that you get up for at night

For you to get up at, get up at night

Get up, get up in the night

A manifesto that you get up for at night


By J.R.