It's been a long time since I took almost everything seriously
It's been a long time since I believed in something
And then the shock, how it came at me differently
Strange, where some hare runs long
Not resigned, just quite disillusioned
I understood a little bit

Whoever runs after you when you're successful
Who pats your shoulder, who doesn't always flatter you
Who calls himself your friend without becoming red
And simply ignores you every day
It's been a long time since I was so clueless
And couldn't take disappointment anymore

I remember how I only dreamed of it
Of what I didn't know how to look for
Because of all the searching, I completely missed finding
And anyway, what I wanted to find somewhere
A head full of nothing, just a few instinctive tricks
It takes a long time until you see through it

That was the time when I didn't even have bad luck
Not even that, I wasn't even fed up with it
Here was John Steinbeck, there stood Joseph Conrad
In between me, just relatively checkmated
It's been a few years, but the memory isn't hard
Today it seems to me as if it was yesterday

It's been a long time, a long time
It's been a long time
It's been a long time, a long time
It's been a long time

I wonder when I last painted a picture
If a song is really enough for me now
If I am now where I wanted to go
If I didn't spoil my color on the tour
I think I know, whether you paint loud or quiet
It depends on you knowing it

It's been a long time, a long time
It's been a long time
It's been a long time, a long time
It's been a long time

It's been a long time since I was at your grave
It's been a long time since we spoke
And that something from one also arrived at the other
So long that I can hardly remember
Would you have believed that someone in heaven is waiting for you
I wish it for you, I said

It's been a long time, a long time
It's been a long time
It's been a long time, a long time
It's been a long time
It's been a long time, a long time
It's been a long time
It's been a long time, a long time
It's been a long time
It's been a long time, a long time
It's been a long time
It's been a long time, a long time

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