Hinter Klugen Sätzen Lyrics in English AnnenMayKantereit

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Hinter Klugen Sätzen by AnnenMayKantereit from German to English.
I hide behind clever lines
I draw consequences
That aren't any at all
I blow off friends who value me
Who think of me
Even when I'm unreachable
I'm not good at ending things
And I wanna waste time
And don't know with what yet
And I've got wanderlust without end
Wanderlust for the foreign
Because I've become foreign to myself
I hide behind clever lines
Consequences that aren't any
I hide behind clever lines
I draw consequences that aren't any
And I don't notice that I like to bet
And always stake everything
Because I wanna lose
And I know I should get calmer
If only I knew
How to learn to be silent
Sadly I'm rarely at the coast
Which I miss so much
Because everything's different at the beach
And I've got wanderlust without end
Wanderlust for the foreign
Because I've become foreign to myself
I hide behind clever lines
Consequences that aren't any
I hide behind clever lines
I draw consequences that aren't any
And I lie to myself in my own way
Rather loud than quiet
So that something inside me moves
I'm scared to love, always just doubting
With failure in the back of my mind
Because everything passes someday
Because everything passes someday
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Christopher Annen, Henning Gemke, Malte Huck, Severin Kantereit
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SONG MEANING

Hinter Klugen Sätzen feels like eavesdropping on a friend who masks a storm of self-doubt with clever punchlines. The singer confesses to hiding behind smart phrases, skipping plans with caring friends, and chasing an endless itch for elsewhere. Underneath the witty facade lives a chronic fear of commitment, a tendency to gamble on failure, and a bittersweet wanderlust that comes from feeling foreign in one’s own skin.

Instead of a neat conclusion, the song circles through contradictions: craving silence yet talking too much, longing for the coast yet rarely going, wanting to love yet expecting everything to fade. AnnenMayKantereit wrap this inner tug-of-war in raw vocals and steady guitar, reminding us that sometimes the hardest journey is finding a way back to ourselves.

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