Our love was full of promise and also kind of brief
I´m sitting here and wondering why on earth did you have to leave
I wish I´d paid attention the day of our first date
You told me, you´re a traveller - I did´nt listen and now it is to late
And I am waiting for you, waiting for you all the time
And I got the strangest feeling in this ol´ chest of mine…

I got a cardboard box in the place where once my heart was
And its filled with postcards sent by you
From all those places you now pretend that there your life is
And I hope it is a cardboard box heart for you too

I went to see my doctor and she was kind of sweet –
´I think, you are a vampire ´cause I cant hear the faintest beat´
I said: ´No, I was not bitten and daylight I not flee
But I fell for this woman, the one, who dumped me recently
And I am waiting for her, waiting for her all the time
And I got the strangest feeling in this ol´ chest of mine…

I got a cardboard box in the place where once my heart was
And its filled with postcards sent by you
From all those places you now pretend that there your life is
And I hope it is a cardboard box heart for you too

Oh once I was so happy and sunny as the day
Untill you came a-runnin and took my heart away
And now I´m always wondering, still wondering where you are
In London, in Acapulco, in Seattle or in Zanzibar…
And I´m looking for you, looking for you all the time
And still got the strangest feeling in this ol´ chest of mine…

I got a cardboard box in the place where once my heart was
And its filled with postcards sent by you
From all those places you now pretend that there your life is
And I hope it is a cardboard box heart for you too