Mein Apfelbäumchen [English translation]

I don't really know how to start

So many thoughts and my heart is more than full

So many emotions crumbel up at once

Joy and humility and gratefulness

In your mother's arm that holds you silently

You twinker up into the light of this world

Into your first morning and I'm thinking

This is my child, what a present

When all hopes dry out

I'll start all anew with you

And yes, I can achieve the unachieveable

You're the little apple tree I plant

Look around, now you're a part of the world

That is always questioning itself

Where men destroy their own habitat

Unrelentlessly overhear every warning

A place of contradictions, poor and rich

Full of bitter misery and abundance at the same time

A place of wars, a place full of jealousy

Where humans don't lack anything as much as humaneness

When all hopes dry out...

You're a light in unknowing times

An escape from escapelessness

Like a sign to go on my way

To continue enduring challenges

Where there are many doubts, and a lot to despair

A child makes you forget all your doubts

In a world that floats along without aim or reason

Children are the only hope remaining

When all hopes dry out...

• Artist:Reinhard Mey
• Album:Mein Apfelbäumchen