Vertaling van: Trijntje Oosterhuis - Ken Je Mij

Do you know me? Who do you know?
Do you know me better than I do?
Do you know me? Who do you know?
Do you know me better than I do?

Eyes that look through the sun
Searching for the place where I live
Are you imagery for someone
Who is nice, or immeasurably far away,
Who doesn't stand and doesn't fall
And doesn't feel as I do,
not cold and haughty

Do you know me? Who do you know?
Do you know me better than I do?
Do you know me? Who do you know?
Do you know me better than I do?

Here is the place where I live
A chair on the water,
A window where clearing weather
Or the falling darkness sails along
Did you call? Here I am

Do you know me? Who do you know?
Do you know me better than I do?
Do you know me? Who do you know?
Do you know me better than I do?

I would like to speak a word
That is true and mine
That bears who I am,
That it holds
I would like to speak a word
That stands straight up like a human who looks at me and says
I am your truest self,
Fear not, understand me, I am, I am
Do you know me? Who do you know?
Do you know me better than I do?
Do you know me? Who do you know?
Do you know me better than I do?

Are you the only one in whose eyes
My nakedness is not hidden
Can you take it,
Like no one else,
That I don't give light, isn't warm
That I'm not beautiful, not very
That no spring wells up
From my depth
That I only have this face,
No other.
Have you, without shame,
seen me, taken me,
By no one less?
Wouldn't that be the truth far too much?
Wouldn't that be the truth far too much?

Do you know me? Who do you know?
Do you know me better than I do?
Do you know me? Who do you know?
Do you know me better than I?