The Song Challenge
"Ein graues Haar" ("A gray hair")
By Mucke
"40 years, the half is over, if I'm lucky!" Danny sighs sitting behind his desk in his office. He looks out of the window following the snow. It started snowing early this afternoon and it doesn't look like it would be stopping soon.
The telephone rings and he knew it's Michelle.
"Hey Sweetie! Everything ok at the homefront? Yes I hope too that everybody will come and arrive safely! Yes, I picked up my taxido and will change here.
I promise, I will be home in time! I love you too, Sweetheart!" Danny hangs up the phone and got back to his viewpoint.
The town looked so silent so quit under the snow. He lived in this town almost his whole life and the last 15 years were the happiest. Thanks to Michelle.
He really has nothing to complain about. Michelle was the perfect wife and she gave him those two wonderful children. His business went well and even his mother was, well, friendly to them.
"Today is your birthday, man! 40 years old and still a happy man, so be happy!" Danny said to himself. All those memories about his life came back to his mind.
Grade noch hab' ich Indianer gespielt,
die Tante im Kindergarten hatte ich furchtbar lieb.
Dann meine Runden auf dem Mofa gedreht,
erster Kuß, erste Krise wie schnell die Zeit vergeht!
(„I just played indian boy,
I liked the aunt in the Kindergarten.
Then I drove around on my motorbic,
first kiss, first crisis, how fast the time goes by.")
His happy childhood with Ray and Mick, the hard teenage years without his father and being the future Mafia boss, his fantastic Highschool years.
He has to laugh when he thinks about those years, he had a lot of fun back then. This were his free years! Free from the family, free of the scare his name brought in everyone faces in town. Michelle really had invited some old highschool friends of him. This will be fun! And then yes then Michelle.
She had brought so much pain and so much joy in his life. He never had dreamed of himself being so happy like he was and still is with her! She had to fight so much for them and she did it without hesitation! And she did all this organization stuff, eight months pregnant, just to through him this party tonight. She was his life and she was a wonderful life!
Danny stands up and gets in the bathroom, which is integrate in his office. All his friends had called him today to congratulate even when they were invited tonight. And Michelle invited almost every one in Springfield!
Und jetzt steh' ich vorm Spiegel viertel vor acht,
die Party wird geil mein Geburtstag.
All die, die mich mögen haben an mich gedacht,
doch was muß ich da sehen, na was?>
(„Now I'm standing in front of the mirror 7:45 pm,
the party is going to be great, it's my birthday.
Everyone who likes me thought of me,
but what is that, so what?")
He has to be ready in a few minutes. He looks at himself in
the mirror...Wow, I'm looking older then 40 years tonight! If Michelle still
thinks that I'm handsome?" She is still so beautiful but is he still good
enough for her?
He looks closer in the mirror and suddenly he can't believe
his eyes. A gray hair! That can not be, he goes back in his office and looks in
the mirror close to the window just to make sure that it was the light that
changed his hair color…
alles Gute - Danke - klar,
immer noch ein Grund zum feiern!
Ich seh ein graues Haar, wieder geht ein Jahr,
alles Gute - Danke - klar,
immer noch ein Grund zum feiern.
Ich seh ein graues Haar!>
(„A gray hair, another year,
All the best - Thanks - Sure,
Sure a reason to celebrate!
I see a gray hair, another year,
All the best - Thanks - Sure,
Sure a reason to celebrate!
I see a gray hair!")
No, it is a gray hair! I'm getting really old. Then he thinks again, well I lived a good, happy life and I should dare myself if I start being pathetic now. Gray hair isn't the end of the world. How is that slogan again: "Men are getting more handsome with gray hair, women….." let's forget that part.
Danny smiles to himself by walking back to the bathroom. He really has to hurry up he wouldn't miss his own party for nothing! "You have enough to celebrate so let's do it, Dannyboy!"
Ich seh mich noch suchen meine Platz in der Welt,
gelegentlich hab ich ein Glas zuviel bestellt.
Ich sah viele kommen, ich sah viele gehen,
sah viele umfallen, ich blieb meistens stehn!
(„I see myself looking around for my place in this world,
sometimes I ordered a glass too much.
I saw a lot arriving and going,
Saw a lot getting down, but I almost remained staying.")
Danny thinks back to all those parties he went to! He just had to smile when he thinks at all the times when Bill and Joshua were almost under the table and he was still dancing around with Michelle! Oh what a fun was that! OK, I remember this two parties too when they were dancing and I was under the table … !
Danny's mood gets better and better! There were so many good
moments in his life and he wouldn't like to miss one of them and he sure wants
to add quite a lot more! So who cares if I have a gray hair or two!
Viele 1000 Momente die Zeit gerafft,
ich wünsch' mir noch mehr davon, mehr noch!
Hab' besser kapiert was mich glücklich macht,
was mich echt nicht kümmern muß,
na was?
Ein graues Haar wieder geht ein Jahr,
alles Gute - Danke - klar,
immer noch ein Grund zum feiern!
Erst recht mit grauem Haar, wieder geht ein Jahr,
alles Gute - Danke - klar,
immer noch ein Grund zum feiern.
Erst recht mit grauem Haar!
(„More then 1000 moments, in short words,
I wish more of them, more!
I know now better what makes me happy,
and what doesn't matter,
so what?
A gray hair, another year,
All the best - Thanks - Sure,
Sure a reason to celebrate!
For sure with gray hair, another year,
All the best - Thanks - Sure,
Sure a reason to celebrate!
For sure with gray hair!")
He change his clothes and has to realize that he took some
pounds. The tuxido don't fit so perfect anymore…
Damn, I should have tried him on before getting him in the Laundry. That is it!
They did something wrong and it is smaller now! Actually, that happened a lot in
the last month…! "Ok Santos stop laying to yourself, you just took some
pounds and you got some wrinkles too!" he says to himself in the mirror.
Just think about the slogan again: Men get handsomer with age,
women… Let's cut here again. He smiles to his mirror image. I'm still ok, am
I? Sure I am! I just have to believe it! Let's celebrate the wrinkles and the
big belly and the gray hair! It was quite some work to get every single one!
Wir feiern jede neue Falte die nötig war,
jedes einzelne ausgefallene Haar.
Wir feiern jeden guten Vorsatz ein hübscher Brauch,
und jeden guten Ansatz ob Glatze oder Bauch!
Wir weinen den allerschönsten Körpern nach,
der Weisheitszahn der Zeit.
Für wahr die Jugend ist vergänglich,
das Alter wächst und das zu feiern ist der schönste Zeitvertreib!
("We celebrate every new wrinkle, who had to grow,
every single less hair.
We celebrate every good intention, a nice custom,
and every good "start" if bold or belly!
We cry after the perfect body,
the wisdorn tooth of the time.
Oh yes, the youth is gone,
the age grow and that to celebrate is the best pastime!")
Danny was ready after a few minutes, he was in party mood and
couldn't wait to get home to hug and kiss his wife and celebrate life and the
future with his family and friends!
And he would have made it in time, if….just if the snowstorm
wouldn't had closed every road home…!
"Happy Birthday Danny!"
Ein graues Haar wieder geht ein Jahr,
alles Gute - Danke - klar,
immer noch ein Grund zum feiern.
Erst recht mit grauem Haar, wieder geht ein Jahr,
alles Gute - Danke - klar,
immer noch ein Grund zum feiern.
Erst recht mit grauem Haar!
Ein graues Haar wieder geht ein Jahr,
alles Gute - Danke - klar,
immer noch ein Grund zum feiern.
Erst recht mit grauem Haar, wieder geht ein Jahr,
alles Gute - Danke - klar,
immer noch ein Grund zum feiern.
Erst recht mit grauem Haar!
("A gray hair, another year,
All the best - Thanks - Sure,
Sure a reason to celebrate!
For sure with gray hair, another year,
All the best - Thanks - Sure,
Sure a reason to celebrate!
For sure with gray hair!
A gray hair, another year,
All the best - Thanks - Sure,
Sure a reason to celebrate!
For sure with gray hair, another year,
All the best - Thanks - Sure,
Sure a reason to celebrate!
For sure with gray hair!")
(„Ein graues Haar" - PUR, Live - die Zweite)