Deine Nähe Tut Mir Weh Lyrics in English Revolverheld

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Deine Nähe Tut Mir Weh by Revolverheld from German to English.
That's my window
Just
I woke so softly
I thought I'd float
How far does my life reach
And where does the night begin?
What stands out?
The first stanza has five lines
All the others just four
Rilke inserts an orphan
That has no rhyme reference
I thought I'd float
The third middle line floats
Between the others
Read three
I could even grasp the stars
Hold them inside, so vast
My heart seems so huge; how gladly
Would it let them go again
So it's talking about
A hidden fear
Of the loving woman
Or should we rather say
Of Rilke's female part
His anima
There you go, lucky again
Did they rethink it for me again?
Are you coming tomorrow?
Constantly with him
The others are all coming too
What are you doing the whole time?
What do we want?
We're just together
I think you have to
I don't know
All this isn't good for you
See you tomorrow
Hey Hannah, you okay?
I know every breath you take
Nothing about you is strange
There's probably nobody
Who knows your life better
Back then on those hot summer days
We let ourselves drift off the jetty
And we swore
To stay friends forever
Spit handshake
What would've become of us
The kids from the far north
The best friends, as long as I can remember
The years have passed
I lied to myself more and more
Because I never found the right words
Your closeness hurts me
Because I just see more in us
Than the two of us are
Your closeness hurts me
Because I see more in both of us
Your closeness hurts me
Because I just see more in us
Than the two of us are
Your closeness hurts me
You look hot
You had a chick like that
But didn't deserve her at all
Drinks?
That summer in the 80s
I never forgot it
We both lived through so much
And meet on Fridays for dinner
You're still the girl from back then
With freckles on your face
You talk about big adventures
And laugh a lot when you speak
Hannah, Hannah
Want one too?
You really can't stand me at all
You always come when I'm not around
I just like being alone with him
It's now more than twenty months
And the doctors say
You don't wanna do that
The doctors said from the start
'The brain damage is irreparable.'
But he's still there!
I know he's still there
He won't come back
Hannah, what happened back then
It's not your fault
You wanna kill him
He's dead
And you're alive
When?
Tomorrow
What would've become of us
The kids from the far north
The best friends, as long as I can remember
The years have passed
And I bent myself more and more
Because I never found the right words
Your closeness hurts me
Because I just see more in us
Than the two of us are
Your closeness hurts me
Because I see more in both of us
Your closeness hurts me
Because I just see more in us
Than the two of us are
Your closeness hurts me
That's my window
Just
I woke so softly
I thought I'd float
How far does my life reach
And where does the night begin?
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Jakob Sinn, Johannes Strate, Kristoffer Huenecke, Niels Kristian Groetsch
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SONG MEANING

Revolverheld takes us on a nostalgic roller-coaster that begins with a dreamy Rilke quotation and lands in the raw confession “Deine Nähe tut mir weh” (Your closeness hurts me). The lyrics read like a scrapbook: childhood summers on a boat jetty, pinky-sworn friendships, Friday dinners, playful bar banter, even a hospital corridor. Threaded through these scenes is Hannah, the lifelong friend with freckles and an easy laugh. For the singer, every memory glows with possibility, yet every moment in her presence stings, because he secretly wants more than friendship.

Beneath the warm storytelling lies a deeper ache – the pain of unspoken love. Years roll by, words stay stuck, and closeness becomes a bittersweet reminder of what might have been. Revolverheld captures that tension perfectly: gentle, floating verses mirror carefree childhood, while the soaring chorus erupts with the frustration of loving someone who only sees a friend. It is a heartfelt anthem about friendship teetering on the edge of romance, the silence that grows between the lines, and the paradox of being hurt most by the people we hold dearest.

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