Ihr von morgen (Hymne an die Zukunft) English translation
von Udo Jürgens

You from yesterday!
Your dreams
Still drift through the universe,
And we hear
Your voices
As a distant echo.
You have strayed far from the stars
That guide us.
But from your mistakes
We have learned.

You from tomorrow
Will know
What will become of this Earth.
Our hope is worn out,
And we have lost our way.
Who in a thousand years
Will still understand our fears?
You from tomorrow will gaze in wonder
Backward.


From thoughts come goals,
From the seed grows a tree,
And from one come many,
Freedom makes its own space.
Who in a thousand years
Will still understand our questions?
You from tomorrow will gaze in wonder
Backward.

You from tomorrow!
When you awaken anew,
Do not forget our dreams,
For in them we sought day and night
Your invisible land.

Every water finds its channels,
Sometimes weakness can be strength,
And over many lives
Drops hollow out a stone.
Who in a thousand years
Will still understand our doubts?
You from tomorrow
Will follow new paths!

You from tomorrow have found
What seemed unreachable to us.
Even if we wounded the world,
Perhaps you have forgiven us.


Who in a thousand years
Will still understand our mistakes?
One will see nothing of it anymore:
The dust from our feet
Will be blown away by the wind of time.
You from tomorrow
Will follow new paths!