"Recently, that beautiful old Beatles song came on the radio again
'When I'm 64'
And I imagined how it will be one day
When the gentlemen here on stage are too old to play music
And we sit together on a park bench at sixty-four
And think about the many beautiful concerts and our audience
And I didn't imagine getting older to be so bad
But when you look at the people who are old today
You have to feel sorry for them because they are very lonely
That doesn't have to be, we will also be that age one day
And then we will be glad if there are some people who care
When they hear this tango"

She sits on her old sofa
From the economic miracle era
Two greeting cards on the table
Dallas is long over
"Happy sixty-first birthday
Dear grandma, bye, see you soon"
The children are now grown and out of the house
The apartment is often cold

She always has something to do
She divides up the housework
And every evening she switches off
And turns on the TV
It wasn't always like this
Only since she is alone
Since her husband died
Whom she misses with teary eyes

She loved to dance with him
And sometimes, when it hurts too much
She puts on her old favorite record
And dances all by herself

When she hears this tango
She forgets the time
How she lives now is far, far away
Like a long-extinguished star

When she hears this tango
She forgets the time
How she lives now is far, far away
Like a long-extinguished star

Driven out and expelled from her homeland
After Hitler's great war
She paid heavily
For the German dream of victory
Then the long hard reconstruction
For a small piece of happiness
The long-awaited own home
And children for the republic

They should have it better later
That's why she worked diligently
So she often had too little time
For herself and her husband
A whole life together
Suffered, toiled, saved
Now there should finally be time for more
Now he is no longer there

She loved to dance with him
And sometimes, when it hurts too much
She puts on her old favorite record
And dances all by herself

When she hears this tango
She forgets the time
How she lives now is far, far away
Like a long-extinguished star

When she hears this tango
She forgets the time
How she lives now is far, far away
Like a long-extinguished star

When she hears this tango
She forgets the time

"Thank you"

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