Jenny Jenny Lyrics in English AnnenMayKantereit

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Jenny Jenny by AnnenMayKantereit from German to English.
The day starts in the mirror
Tired eyes wake up
Made-up
Lips red as bricks
And then the coffee she drinks every morning
And she wears blue and yellow
She says she'd love to be permanently employed
She says the world's smaller when you fly every day
Jenny Jenny, cloud rider, just keeps on smiling
Just like all flight attendants
Jenny, cloud rider
Jenny Jenny, cloud rider, just keeps on smiling
Just like all flight attendants
Jenny Jenny, cloud rider
And after every landing
She's the smile in the surf
Between a thousand passengers who don't want to wait
For passport control and customs
And then a three-hour layover
And Jenny drinks the coffee cold
And she googles Panama
Two years ago she was there for ten minutes once
Panama
Panama
Panama
Panama
Panama
Welcome on board
Welcome on board
Welcome on board
Welcome on board
Every day ten thousand miles above the sea
She says she sometimes comes home
And doesn't know where from anymore
Jenny Jenny, cloud rider, just keeps on smiling
Just like all flight attendants
Jenny, cloud rider
Jenny Jenny, cloud rider
Keeps on smiling
Just like all flight attendants
Jenny, cloud rider
Panama
Panama
Panama
Panama
Welcome on board
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Christopher Annen, Felix Roemer, Henning Gemke, Malte Huck, Markus Ganter, Severin Kantereit
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SONG MEANING

From the very first yawn in the bathroom mirror to her tireless "Willkommen an Bord", Jenny Jenny paints a colorful portrait of a flight attendant whose feet rarely touch the ground. The verses follow her morning ritual – red lipstick, blue-and-yellow uniform, and that first cup of coffee – before whisking us tens of thousands of miles above the ocean. Up there, Jenny is a Wolkenreiter (literally “cloud rider”), forever smiling at passengers who hurry past customs and baggage claims. On paper her life seems adventurous, yet the song lets us glimpse the monotony behind the glamour: cold layover coffee, endless googling of places she only saw for ten fleeting minutes, and the wish for a simple permanent contract.

Beneath its catchy chorus, the track balances freedom with restlessness. Jenny circles the globe day after day, making the world feel smaller while her own longing for stability grows bigger. Her smile is both her armor and her job description, a friendly beacon amid the chaos of airports. The repetitive shout of “Panama” and the rhythmic “Willkommen an Bord” echo the constant loop of departures and arrivals, reminding us that even high-flying dream jobs can leave you wondering where home really is.

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