Wintermärchen [English translation]

On the tree in front of my window

Sat in the rough winter breath

A thrush and I asked:

"Why don't you migrate too?

Why do you stay when the storms

Roar across meadow and field

When in the far south beckons you

A sunny world?"

She1 answered in a low tone:

"Because I'm not like others

Who with time and fortune

Change their easy minds

Those that wander towards the sun

Restless from country to country

Have never known the silent glow

In their own breast

Your eye also shines brightly;

Though your cheek is pale;

But the gaze is facing inwards

Into the eternal kingdom of the sun

Let us live here together

And a song from time to time

We will sing, of withered branches

That shine of eternity."

Let us live here together

And a song from time to time

We will sing, of withered branches

That shine of eternity."

We will sing, of withered branches

That shine of eternity."

1. The german word for thrush is grammatically feminine.

• Artist:In Extremo
• Album:Kompass Zur Sonne