Ganz schön lange her (und ein wenig über mich) / Quite a long time ago (and a bit about me)

Nein, ich mache nicht nur allein Musik. Das Projekt "Schlaflos Records" war zu seiner besten Zeit 5 Mann stark.
Heute, nach vielen Höhen und Tiefen, inklusive kompletter Trennung, kommen Eddy und ich ab und zu noch zusammen und musizieren gemeinsam ein wenig.

Es gibt bestimmt hunderte Geschichten, die ich hier noch erzählen kann... Über größere und kleinere Erfolge, über Momente die mich geprägt haben und auch darüber, wie mich eine schwere Erkrankung dermaßen aus dem Leben riss, dass ich mich heute manchmal so anhöre, als ob mein Leben mit Mitte 30 eigentlich bereits zu Ende gelebt ist.

"Ganz schön lange her" ist eine Song-Idee, die von Eddy kam und von seiner Seite wohl eine Warnung darstellt.
Der Beitrag den ich dazu geleistet habe, spiegelt wohl eher mein eigenes Leben wider.

EN
No, I do not just do music alone. The project "Schlaflos Records" consisted of 5 people at its best.
Today, after many ups and downs, including a complete breakup, eddy and I meet from time to time to make some music together

There are certainly hundreds of stories that I can tell you here ... about major and minor achievements, about moments that have shaped me, and also about how a serious illness tore me out of my life so much that today I sometimes sound like if my life in mid-30 is actually over.

"Pretty long ago" is a song idea that came from Eddy and is probably more of a warning.
The contribution I have made reflects more likely my own life.

Lyric translation:
Do you remember that you once had dreams?
it was not always staggered gray on success
There were times when you said, oh hell I don´t do it
if it does not bring joy, what the hell, then I'll leave it
So you said, after school it starts
then, somewhere in the south, i will live on the shore
Before studying, you wanted to do so much
instead of recovering stoned, from the fucking high school diploma '
That never became anything until the university
but the few years will pass anyway
and then you imagine how it will be then soon
after the bachelor you will really start to live
and you really believed that
but somehow there was some woman then
and some job you really need
and if necessary, there will be holiday, if you really have to go out
and so became a "soon i'll be free"
to an "soon I'll have some days off again"
so became a "we conquer the world map together"
to an "Come around for a round of cards"
You do not longer want to travel to discover yourself
you want to go away to hide from this world
In the past, you wanted to give people back all the things you like
and now you hold nothing but money in your hands
that you know you can never pay with
What you did not do today because you have no time to
and later you see your caretaker in the nursing home and you become jealous
because you know that the young people have so much time but do not make it out

Refrain:
And now it's been a long time somehow
And the many people of those days, you do not even know them anymore
Who cares today where you would like to be instead
But sometimes you sit there and know, I do not want to be like that

Sometimes in the winter when you looking out the window
Do you think again how times change
Forgotten dreams in colorful robes
Dancing the dance with joined hands
Nothing remains - even memory fades
not that there were never any chances, no, it's worse, you just did not use them

And sometimes you do not even know what you dreamed of
You only know you feel empty every night and that you have missed something
Rarely in sleep or there they catch you
Thoughts of freedom are full of cheerfulness
not just working to burn money
and the desire to really change the world

but you just sitting there, sad and rigid, that people change is scary and true
where is the guy who did not know, the fear of what is chasing you today so unfortunate?
you just need more and more - like all the other people- you feel heavy and empty
and lie down in your bed as if it were already time to die

Refrain