Oh if only I knew the way back
Gustav Gottfried Weiss
Oh if only I knew the way back,
The well-loved road to the land of childhood!
Oh why did I seek my fortune
And leave my mother's hand?
Oh how I yearn to have a rest,
Not to be awakened for striving,
To close my weary eyes,
To be covered gently with love!
And to quest for nothing, to spy on nothing,
And only to dream, simply and gently,
Not to notice the alterations of Time,
But to be for a second time, a child!
Oh, show me then the way back,
The well-loved road to the land of childhood!
In vain I seek my fortune,
All around me is desolate sand!