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Moby Dick

Part 1
 
Look at Starbuck, what a mild day,
I wonder if I still can remember it?
Forty years ago the first time,
Then I went hunting, hunting for the whale.
 
Harpoons and spears, that's my world,
An eternal fight only for fame and for money.
What is this madness, who will tell me the reason?
We're drifting on the rolling infernal maw....
 
And I feel old, I could be Adam,
Millions of years of torment and pain,
Since then, the escape from paradise,
When we left our God, and God left us.
 
Come, Starbuck, close, close to me,
So I won't always stare at the water.
I'd like to look into a man's eyes,
And only wish that you understood me.
 
What is it? What demon, what beast
Lurks hidden in my innermost being?
Love and longing are unknown to him,
It draws me to the sea, abhors the land.
 
It drives me to deeds, myself deeply hated,
It urges me and chases me, it rages and rages.
If Ahab is Ahab, if I am Ahab, it's God,
Who guides my arm, with malice and derision?
 
But if even the sun, the band of the milky way
Is guided by the Almighty's hand alone,
How can my heart throb, how can my mind think,
If God does not pull his strings in heaven?
 
Twisted and turned, as God wills it,
That we're all like this capstan over there,
The hand spokehen leads the fate alone,
The sky smiles, the sea joins in.
 
But look deep into the sea, look there!
There's only hunting and eating and murder!
Who gave these animals all this?
And what will be the punishment for killing?
 
But who's the judge, and what the decision,
If even before the barriers the judge must stand?
But I leave the brooding on such a beautiful day -
I see you tremble, why is the question....
 
You want to kill me, with your own hand?
Guide the ship safely to home?
But lack courage now, for your life's duty,
Oh, no, Mr. Starbuck, you're not saving me!
 
Bound by loyalty, bound to me,
You know in your heart, know as I do,
The act of this drama has long been in the book,
And to play it here, that's our curse.
 
You and I are nothing but characters in the play,
Planned ages ago because it pleased God,
Millions of years before the sea
Here surged and rolled, so long ago!
 
Part 2
 
They tell me, Starbuck, I'm full of hate,
Chasing the whale, that's what I enjoy?
They say self-defense, that was his motive,
But when he took my leg, he grinned crookedly.
 
And you, Starbuck, call it presumption?
I'd be willing to fight the sun, I suppose,
If it ever did me any harm.
You see, Starbuck, you're smart, aren't you?
 
No matter what we see, the true face,
Hidden behind masks, we don't see.
A higher being gave form to all being,
But I see through, see through alone.
 
The white whale challenges me eternally,
And that drove me out here on the ocean,
I see the mask behind which he is,
But I finally discovered the truth.
 
What behind the mask, I hate so much!
The evil! That makes our lives so hard!
Plagued by fears since time immemorial,
It dominates our thinking and makes us despondent.
 
Instead of killing us with a swift hand,
It mutilates us until we are burned out
Dahinvegetieren, the soul full of pain,
With half a lung and half a heart!
 
Now listen, Starbuck, and open your ears:
The crew stands by me, they've sworn.
I find none better than Harpooner,
So come along and follow me!
 
'I'll tell you, captain, right to your face,
I'm not on your side!
But Starbuck is no danger to you,
Only Ahab for Ahab, that's for sure.
 
So beware, captain, of yourself,
For what we began won't end well!'
 


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Speak to Him





You're a friend and I know it,
I trust you and therefore
if I ask you a favor,
you shouldn't say no,
you mustn't say no to me.
 

Then speak to him,
you who know everything about me.
Tell him that yesterday
I went out with you.
 

Speak to him,
you know what I did.
Please tell him
that I never lied to him.
 

Yes, I know you're sorry,
but it's your fault that he
this evening
didn't show up with me
and you already understood why.
 

And so speak to him,
make peace between us
and don't tell me,
don't tell me that you can't.
 

Oh, speak to him,
you know what I did.
Please tell him
that I never lied to him.
 

Whoa, whoa, whoa, speak to him,
you who know everything about me.
Tell him that yesterday
I went out with you.
 

Speak to him,
you know what I did.
Please tell him
that I never lied to him!
 


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Tonight You'll Hear a Song





Tonight you'll hear a song,
a song you already know.
The woman you no longer love will sing it,
the woman who will leave you but who won't cry.
 

A song that will tell you about me,
that will stay with you throughout your life,
a song be will leave a mark in your heart
that will never be erased.
 

Tonight I'll relive for the last time
these moments that I'll no longer find
but when I disappear and only you are found,
you'll cry because you'll remember.
 

A song that will tell you about me,
that will be with you throughout your life,
a song that will leave a mark in your heart
that will never be erased.
 

A song that will tell you about me,
that will be with you throughout your life,
a song that will leave a mark in your heart
that will never be erased.
 


22.10.2024

A Reflection in the Water





It was
a moonlit evening,
under the bridge the river slept
and a woman sang.
 

Clear,
the water slipped away
and the image of your smile
the river mirrored.
 

A reflection in the water,
a reflection in the water,
a reflection in the water,
the current passed
but nothing remained,
but I inside my mind
still see you.
 

It was
a moonlit evening,
your voice spoke
and the river silently listened.
 

And it was,
almost a year has passed
but every evening I return to look
into the river to dream.
 

A reflection in the water,
a reflection in the water,
the current passed
but nothing has changed,
the water slowly stops,
I still see you.
 

A reflection in the water,
a reflection in the water,
the current passed
but nothing has changed,
the water slowly stops,
I still see you.
 


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A Family





Evening will come,
you'll return home
and without a word, you'll sit at the table
in your place as always.
 

Then when you have finished,
you'll tell us kids:
leave me alone and glue your eyes
for an hour on the newspaper.
 

But read inside the eyes
of mom what is there.
Notice that she wants
to talk a bit with you.
 

You cannot call life
this life you give her
if you have nothing left
to share with her.
 

I know that you are not wicked,
that deep down you love her.
Don't make her pay for the usual bitterness that
life gives you.
 

You think about your hopes
of a long time ago
starting when you wanted
to become who knows who.
 

But look that you are
someone at least among us,
you're not mistaken,
life is precisely this here.
 

When you come home,
bring a smile with you,
then we'll talk together, that way we'll become
at last a family,
a true family,
a true family.