Paroles et traduction Wolfgang Niedecken - Für 'ne Fründ

Für 'ne Fründ

Noch wohr ′t daachhell
Die Hall wohr noch janz leer
'T stund eez die Bühn
En Hockey-Hall, nur ohne Ihß
Em Sommer läuf do kaum jet drinn
Boxe woote rinnjerollt
Leechmaste huhjedrieht
Ich daach mer:
"Jung, jank noch jet russ
Noch beeste övverflüssig
Wie mer sieht"

Dat janze wohr ′n der Schweiz
Da 's jet, wat unbeding
He noch erwähnt sinn muss
E Wedder uss em Bilderbooch
Jing durch 'ne Wald
Kohm ahn ′ne Fluss
Zum Kanal wohr dä bejraadigt
He hatt wer ussjerechnet hoorjenau
Met welchem Tempo
Dä ze fleeße hatt
Nur sing Wasser wohr
Noch schön gröön-blau

Su jing ich dann en Zicklang
Ahn dä Zwitterkonstruktion entlang
En Jedanke janz woanders
Wo ich mich nit mieh
Draan erinnere kann
Bess ich ahn die Stell kohm
Wo mer enjemeißelt en ′ne Stein
Lese kunnt wie dat Dinge heeß
Do stund: Rhein

Dat troof mich wie ne Hammer
Paar Momente stund ich fassungslos
"Dat darf doch wohl nit wohrsinn"
Daach ich
"Dat he ess doch nit däselve Fluss
Dä die Pilone vun der Südbröck
Fiebernd och ömspöhlt."
Un wie 'nem kranke Fründ
Hann ich dir donoh dann
Der Puls jeföhlt

Träne en de Aure die uss Ohnmacht
Trauer, Wut, als dann vüür mir Revue
Passiert, wie off ich hilflos
Dich en dinger Nuht
Schon övverquert hann
Nit beachtet
Zwesche Bodensee un Rotterdam
Vatter Rhing em Koma
Dä letzte Walzer ahm Kraterrand

Ich daach draan
Wie ′sch als Kind en Ruudekirche
Langel un en Poll met dir
Jespillt hann und hann mich jefrooch
Wo minge Klein wohl ens met
Spille soll
Wie minge große Brooder
Sich verboddnerwies ahn
Schleppkähn hing
Wie leer die Poller Wiss
Hück och em Sommer ess
Un wie't en Langel
Noh Chemie jetz stink

Wo litt dat bloß draan
Dat mer nur vun zwölf
Bess Meddach denke will
Wie e Karnickel vüür der
Schlang erstarrt
"Noh mir die Sintflut" säht un still
Me′m Kopp em Sand aafwaad
Als jööv et nix mieh
Wofür sich noch jet lohnt?

Vun unge weed Ihß dönner
Un wenn't jeschmolze ess
Blieht nix verschont

For a Friend

It was still daylight
The hall was still completely empty
There stood a stage
A hockey hall, just without ice
In the summer, hardly anything happens there
Boxes were rolled in
Light poles were raised
I thought to myself:
"Boy, cry it out some more
You're still superfluous
As we can see"

The whole thing was in Switzerland
There's something that absolutely
Needs to be mentioned
Picture-perfect weather
Walking through a forest
Coming to a river
The canal was straightened
Someone had calculated exactly
At what speed
It had to flow
Only its water was
Still a beautiful green-blue

So I walked for a while
Along this hybrid construction
Lost in thought
Which I can no longer
Remember
Until I came to the place
Where you can read engraved in a stone
What this thing is called
It said: Rhine

It hit me like a hammer
For a few moments I stood there stunned
"This can't be true"
I thought
"This isn't the same river
That also feverishly washes around
The pylons of the South Bridge."
And like a sick friend
I then felt your pulse
Right then and there

Tears in my eyes from powerlessness
Sadness, anger, as I then saw before me
How often I helplessly
Had already crossed you
In your nakedness
Unnoticed
Between Lake Constance and Rotterdam
Father Rhine in a coma
The last waltz on the crater rim

I think back
To how I used to play in Rodenkirchen as a child
For a long time at the harbor with you
And I wondered
Where my little one would eventually
Play with
How my big brother
Forbiddenly hung onto
Tugboats
How empty the harbor basin
Is today even in summer
And how in Langel
It now stinks of chemicals

Why is it that
We only want to think from twelve
To midday
Like a rabbit frozen before the
Snake
"After me, the flood" we say and silently
Wait with our heads in the sand
As if there were nothing left
Worthwhile anymore?

Ice is thundering from above
And when it has melted
Nothing will be spared