Leichtes Gepäck [English translation]

One day you notice

That you don't need the 99%

You take all the ballast

And throw it away

Because one travels better

With light luggage

You look around in your flat, you see

A cabinet of nonsense, you see

The result of buying and buying things

That you think you might need someday, you see

So many clothes that you

Have never worn and that you

Will never wear and

Yet they remain at your place

Too many spider webs and too much junk

Too much old stuff in tupperware

One day you notice

That you don't need the 99% of that

You take all the ballast

And throw it away

Because one travels better

With light luggage, with light luggage

Not only your little

Court of plastic, also

The army of scrap and neuroses

On your soul grows

More and more, hangs more and more often sucking blood on your throat

How great it would be, the idea of getting rid of all that

All into a heap with lighting gel and tinder

And it flames and burns so beautifully

A fire still to be seen kilometers away

And one day you notice

That you don't need the 99% of that

You take all the ballast

And throw it away

Because one travels better

With light luggage, with light luggage

From today, only the important things

From today, only the important things

From today, only the important things

From today, only light luggage

Then one day you notice

It is little that you really need

So you take all the ballast

And throw it away

Because one lives better

So much better

With light luggage

All the dirt from yesterday

All the scars

All the bills that lay around unpaid for way too long

Let go of them, just throw them away

Because one travels better

With light luggage

• Artist:Silbermond
• Album:Leichtes Gepäck (2015)