Vertaling van: Boudewijn de Groot - Ben Ik Te Min
Do you want to stay, that’s okay
There is no point in it anyway
As long as you don’t see me as the little boy with the roses
Because that whole dream world would fall apart
You were, as they called it, the idealistic type
But you are not like that anymore
Now you are as idealistic as I am
But how, for god’s sake, would you want it differently?
Am I not good enough? (“Am I less?”)
Am I not good enough, because your parents have more money than my parents do?
Am I not good enough?
Am I not good enough, because your dad drives a bigger car than mine does?
And still, you want to stay
but your dad does not want you to
I think you can better leave
And you are also hurting your mother
when you will come back home she will say “what are you doing to me”
I had to listen to your mother with her crazy bullshit
About your brother’s study
And that your dad was such a successful businessman
In other words “you are just a peasant” Does that make me less?
Am I less because your parents have more money than my parents do?
Am I not good enough?
Am I not good enough, because your dad drives a bigger car than mine does?
But watch out,
You are not used to eating from the streets
As long as you do not reckon the physical thing so important
As, in fact, that is not what it is about
And if you can handle it, please come back again
And otherwise you can flare up
Because it is not like I do not care about you
But this way you are pushing your own head through a noose
Is that why I am less?
Am I less because your parents have more money than my parents do?
Am I not good enough?
Am I not good enough, because your dad drives a bigger car than mine does?
There is no point in it anyway
As long as you don’t see me as the little boy with the roses
Because that whole dream world would fall apart
You were, as they called it, the idealistic type
But you are not like that anymore
Now you are as idealistic as I am
But how, for god’s sake, would you want it differently?
Am I not good enough? (“Am I less?”)
Am I not good enough, because your parents have more money than my parents do?
Am I not good enough?
Am I not good enough, because your dad drives a bigger car than mine does?
And still, you want to stay
but your dad does not want you to
I think you can better leave
And you are also hurting your mother
when you will come back home she will say “what are you doing to me”
I had to listen to your mother with her crazy bullshit
About your brother’s study
And that your dad was such a successful businessman
In other words “you are just a peasant” Does that make me less?
Am I less because your parents have more money than my parents do?
Am I not good enough?
Am I not good enough, because your dad drives a bigger car than mine does?
But watch out,
You are not used to eating from the streets
As long as you do not reckon the physical thing so important
As, in fact, that is not what it is about
And if you can handle it, please come back again
And otherwise you can flare up
Because it is not like I do not care about you
But this way you are pushing your own head through a noose
Is that why I am less?
Am I less because your parents have more money than my parents do?
Am I not good enough?
Am I not good enough, because your dad drives a bigger car than mine does?