Vertaling van: Trijntje Oosterhuis - Het Water

I stare across the water
Which like myself
Once was in motion
Fathomless deep and menacing black
Just as what I read in your eyes
I want to be
Selectively deaf and blind as a bat forever
So that I don't have to see or hear
That everything is gone
I can't eat, sleep, walk, dance or live
Without you

So I will keep sitting here
And keep waiting here on you
Untill the water will ever get it's motion back
And then I will float along
'Till the sea
Where you
Will be waiting on me The sky is bright
And endless
And so far above me
Untouchable but yet
So close
Just like you are
It's written in the sky
Yet it keeps stinging on my lips
I can't eat, sleep, walk, dance or live
Without you

So I will keep sitting here
And keep waiting here on you
Untill the water will ever get it's motion back
And then I will float along
'Till the sea
Where you
Will be waiting on me

I stare across the water
Which like myself
Once was in motion