Paroles et traduction BAP - Met Wolke Schwaade

Met Wolke Schwaade

Op dä Südbröck stonn ich off Stunde.
Immer widder luhr ich dä Möve un dä Schleppkähn noh
Loss ming Jedanke frei.
Ne Jüterzoch un ungendurch dä Rhing flühß wigger
Su wie sick Johr un Daach
Als ob nix wöhr
Stumm
Majestätisch ahn dä Stadt vorbei.
Dä Fluss ess grau un schwer die Wolke övver Kölle.
Ming Stadt ess alt
Dat heiß:
Nit häßlich
Nur zo plump jeschmink.
Die Uferstein allein künnte vill verzälle.
Womöglich dunn die dat sujar
Su laut se künne
Bloß mir sinn taub un blind.
Ich däät ens jähn met Wolke schwaade.
Ich wöss vum Rhing jähn
Watte denk.
Ich wöss jähn
Wodrop mir noch waade
Wat uns wie Lemminge en Richtung Affjrund lenk.
Kölle - Berlin
Em Fliejer will ich dat he schrieve.
Die naach ess wolkelos
Do unge funkelt Kassel
... schon vorbei.
Ich frooch mich: Wat ess met mir loss?
Benn ich ahm övverdrieve?
Do kütt die Stewardess
Ob ich ne Wunsch hätt
Nä, ′s alles einwandfrei!
Ich däät ens jähn met Wolke schwaade.
Ich wöss vum Rhing jähn
Watte denk.
Ich wöss jähn
Wodrop mir noch waade
Wat uns wie Lemminge en Richtung Affjrund lenk.

Chatting with the Clouds

On the Südbrücke I stand for hours
Again and again I watch the seagulls and the barges
Letting my thoughts run free
A train of goods and barges sails steadily down the Rhine
Like the years and days
As if nothing had happened
Silent
Majestically past the city
The river is grey and heavy are the clouds over Cologne
My city is old
That means:
Not ugly
Only too heavily made-up
The stones on the banks alone could tell many stories
Perhaps they even do
As loudly as they can
Only we are deaf and blind
I'd like to have a chat with the clouds sometime
I know from the Rhine
What it's thinking
I know
What we're still waiting for
What drives us towards the abyss like lemmings
Cologne-Berlin
I'll write that in the plane
The night is cloudless
Kassel sparkles brightly below
... already past
I ask myself: What's wrong with me?
Am I exaggerating?
The stewardess comes
Does she want me for anything
No, everything's fine!
I'd like to have a chat with the clouds sometime
I know from the Rhine
What it's thinking
I know
What we're still waiting for
What drives us towards the abyss like lemmings