Beautiful poetic lyrics! May the whole world be safe and happy. I wish I knew German.. im sure some nuances are lost in translation.

I read the English first, and then I was able to apply some of my college German (it's been 40 years!). Both sets of words are beautiful and powerful. And I'm so glad you liked our collab!

So great. Well done. Love soft happiness and loud hope.

I don't want to analyze this. Let me just say that I love it and feel that I could meditate on some of the phrases for a long time. A stance in my movement--yes

A fortunate stumble indeed! And this one I could mostly translate, which gives me hope.

Wonderful - promise me you'll use the German for PM! Love the Kafka quote and the folding up of courage and "your are a window ... open." Very poetic!

I wish I knew enough German to read this in the original language you worked with. The English is lovely. The idea of folding up your courage so that you can carry it is just sigh wonderful. Musically, I could envision it sounding a bit like an art song by Schumann, similar in feel to 'Du Ring an meinen finger'

This works so nicely simply as a set of lyrics / a poem; it tells such a tender story, is full of such longing and, yes, hope. Absolutely lovely. I think these lyrics require a deft touch and gracefulness that I lack, but am intrigued to hear a version that handles these words with the sensitivity and compassion they deserve.

the last 4 lines sound like a chorus and the choice of words is just superb here, all 4 lines. Really needs a tune now and you you rocking!

Oh man this is gorgeous, hits hard right from those first few lines. And all your lyrics... I don't know if it's because I'm a non-native speaker, but I'm always reading layers of meaning into German poetry and lyrics (whether the author necessarily intended them or not). For instance here "sprechen" vs. "versprechen", or "lautes Hoffen" which also for some reason creates a distant echo of "lauter Hoffen" in my mind, or "Haltung in meiner Bewegung" bringing up for me all the various other meanings connected with "Halt/halten". I don't know if you did all that on purpose, or even thought about those things yourself while writing. But whether you did or not, this is beautiful.