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Explore the lyrics available so far, with the music and a German reading translation beside them. Changing the website language never changes the original lyric.

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01Borrowed DreamsInner Dialogues02Cartography of UsSongs for the Road03Chalk Lines in the RainPower & Propaganda04Evening TrainsSongs for the Road05Four Hours of RainSongs for the Road06Get Out Your HeadInner Dialogues07Green & BlueSongs for the Road08GwaenchanayoSongs for the Road09Hey BonyoungInner Dialogues10HollowInner Dialogues11I Draw the LineInner Dialogues12Lanterns and TidesSongs for the Road13Let It SteamSongs for the Road14Midnight Grocery StoreSongs for the Road15Neon & MountainsSongs for the Road16Neon RainSongs for the Road17Now Is a Good TimeInner Dialogues18Old GoodbyesInner Dialogues19One DayInner Dialogues20Pack LightSongs for the Road21Pick Your ProblemsInner Dialogues22Real EnoughDigital Mirror23Self-Diagnosed MessiahDigital Mirror24ShapesInner Dialogues25Something SmallInner Dialogues26Stay StrangeInner Dialogues27Straight LineInner Dialogues28The Beauty in the StrangeInner Dialogues29The Dopamine FactoryDigital Mirror30The Last EmployeeDigital Mirror31The Long Way HomeSongs for the Road32The ManuscriptInner Dialogues33The Moon Has MovedInner Dialogues34The Pleasure LoopDigital Mirror35The Sacred ScrollDigital Mirror36The World Isn’t Against YouInner Dialogues37Too Old For ThisDigital Mirror38Under Hong Kong RainSongs for the Road39Waking Up AgainSongs for the Road40What ChangedInner Dialogues41When the Quiet SingsInner Dialogues42Where Strangers SleepSongs for the Road43Without Us KnowingInner Dialogues44Without YouInner Dialogues45World Between WorldsSongs for the Road
45 lyrics available

German translations carry the meaning and imagery for reading. They are not singable adaptations and never replace the English original.

This collection is still growing. More songs, including German originals, are available in the catalogue.

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Songs for the Road

Green & Blue

A Camino friendship is remembered through aching feet, sea salt, bad cider pours and the colors that outlast the road.

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Songs for the Road

Gwaenchanayo

After three years in Korea, a German outsider begins to hear the meaning carried by pauses, smiles and words that never quite mean only one thing.

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Inner Dialogues

Hollow

When a full life still feels empty, the search turns away from circumstances and toward the eye that measures them.

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Songs for the Road

Neon & Mountains

A loving portrait of South Korea holds neon ambition, mountain calm, human warmth and exhausting pressure in the same frame.

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Songs for the Road

Neon Rain

Tokyo's night becomes a delirious threshold between technology, spirits and the hand that leads a traveler home.

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Inner Dialogues

One Day

A quiet reckoning with the life we postpone while collecting proof that we have arrived.

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Songs for the Road

Pack Light

A cheerful argument for leaving space in the bag, the schedule and the mind so that a journey can surprise you.

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Inner Dialogues

Shapes

A self moves through work, love, friendship and solitude — then asks whether any single shape is the real one.

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Digital Mirror

Too Old For This

A generation raised before permanent digital evidence looks at today's safer, cleaner world and wonders what disappeared with the mess.

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