Keine ruhige Minute [English translation]

How did I go about my ways

Those years before you came around?

When days would still last for days

With no real joy there to be found

With no toys there for me to mend

With no pain and no remorse

Without going to every end

Having you ride me as your horse

[Chorus:]

Not a single quiet minute

Since has ever come to pass

And I know that I'll be in it

'Till I'm a hundred years at last

Today you're filling up my life

So much I hardly can recall

What was there - except the strife -

Before you were there at all?

I thought I knew what was worth knowing

'Til you took that away from me

Never knew all those things you're showing

Until the day you made me see

[Chorus]

This house has really started living

- How could I've ever been so wrong? -

With all those noises that you're giving

And the sound of children's songs

I used to sit around alone

And move the furniture at night

A house is not really a home

Until a cradle's set inside!

[Chorus]

My ups and downs have left their sutures

Had lots of pain and joy, that's true

Just a faint glimpse into the future

Of what I'm gonna have with you

You give your very own perspective

To everything that's come and gone

Whether what comes will be effective

You are the measure, little one

[Chorus]

• Artist:Reinhard Mey
• Album:Mein Apfelbäumchen