A keresés eredménye

Middle age

I still know how it was
For days, it was about us going1
Bam, bam, bambambam, bam
However brief the night
By the next morning we were saying
Bam, bam, bambambam, bam
 
But today it's not going so well anymore
My eyes are heavy, but my blood is light2
The guy in the mirror looks thus
Like he was home late
 
My head hurts, what a night!
What has middle age3 just done to us?
Enough crying, it's time to laugh!
We dance until the day awakes
 
The sun comes up
In my head, I hear only
Bam, bam, bambambam, bam
My heart has the hiccups4
And beats only
Bam, bam, bambambam, bam
 
It's not worth it, having too many worries
That just adds wrinkles to the face
My reflection looks pale and thin
I better lie down
 
My head hurts, what a night!
What has middle age just done to us?
Enough crying, it's time to laugh!
We dance until the day awakes
 
And until you are hammered5 yet again
Even if the last bone in my body cracks
It's not time to cry, but to laugh
We dance until the day awakes
 
My head hurts, what a night!
What has middle age just done to us?
Enough crying, it's time to laugh!
We dance until the day awakes
 
My head hurts, what a night!
What has middle age just done to us?
Enough crying, it's time to laugh!
We dance until the day awakes
 

• 1. “Bei uns geht's” literally means “it went with us.” It is a form of “es geht bei ____,” literally “it goes by/about ____”, which really means, “it involves/concerns/is a matter of _____.” The word “nur” (“only/just”) is out of place here, because it colloquially introduces the next phrase as something that is being said. E.g. “We were all like, ‘bam-bam-bam...’”
• 2. Literally, “The eyes are thick, for that the blood is thin.” The speaker is complaining about the pains of old age. “Dafür” is difficult because it can mean many different things, and without an explicit verb here it leaves much to the imagination. Still, I think “but” does it the most justice, since it is intended to draw out the ironic opposition of “thick” and “thin”.
• 3. The title of this song.
• 4. This seems to be colloquial way of speaking about an abnormal heartbeat, the medical term for which is extrasystole.
• 5. I.e. drunk. This is colloquial.

Régen minden jobb volt

Versions: #1
Korábban minden jobb volt
Akkor még papírból volt egy könyv
Akkor még minden éjjel hosszabb volt
És alkohol a sörben
Régebben mindenki talált munkát
Akkor még igazi pénzünk volt
Akkor még nem mentek csődbe a bankok
Miénk volt a világ
 
[Refrén]
Hagyjátok végre nyugton a tegnapot
Igyunk egy jobb időre
Föl a csészéket, ünnepeljünk
A 'régebben' ma óta halott
Nem volt jobb igazából semmi
Aki ezt hiszi, egy idióta
 
Régebben minden jobb volt
Akkor minden nő szép volt
A férfiak igazi legények
És egy pornó még obszcén
Régebben hosszabbak voltak a napok
Akkor mindig forró volt egy nyár
Akkor minden szoknya rövidebb volt
És az italban sosem olvadt el a jég
 
[Refrén]
 
Régen minden jobb volt
Akkor még hangos volt egy rock koncert
A dalokat még megvették
És nem lopták a zenét
Régen mindenki kedvesebb volt
A főnök is megdicsért
A pápa még katolikus volt
Az égben dopping
 
[Refrén]
 
A tanulságot ebből a dalból
Minden gyerek megérti
Milyen jó, hogy mindenki
Mindenki korábbról
Már tegnapelőtti
Milyen jó, hogy mindenki
Mindenki korábbról
Már tegnapelőtti
 

The merchant and damsel

[Verse 1: Sasha, Alea, Patty, Ben]
Once an old merchant encountered a gal
Directly in front of the gates of Dummdidadeldei
He slyly asked whose descendant such a sweet and elegant woman is
And how is she here, towards Dummdidadeldei
She answered him at once with an angelic voice
„I very well come from here as well, from Dummdidadeldei
But may I ask, who is speaking, draped in such noble threads“
The merchant kissed her hand: „People call me Dideldei“
 
[Pre-Refrain]
And they went in the tavern
And they drank noble mead
And they dreamed into the distance
And they sang this song
 
[Refrain]
Dummdidadeldudeldadeldummdidadeldei
Dummdidadeldudeldadeldudeldadeldei
 
[Verse 2: Alea, Patty, Ben]
The angelic maiden breathe softly into his ears
„Did you not know at all that my name's Dummdidudel?“
The donkey-minded merchant, oh, the love-crazy fool
Rushed in his own urge for ecstasy towards Dummdidadeldei
But the priest is catholic and they became a married couple
The nights were long and 'Dideldummdidudeldei'
That maybe sounds strange today, but in a few years
Dummdidudeldei had 13 little kids
 
[Pre-Refrain]
And they went in the tavern
And they drank noble mead (Noble mead)
And they dreamed into the distance
And they sang this song
 
[Refrain]
Dummdidadeldudeldadeldummdidadeldei
Dummdidadeldudeldadeldudeldadeldei
 
[Bridge: Sasha, Patty, Alea, Ben]
They stood in front of the altar, the ducklings sang aloud
„Dummdidadeldudeldadeldudeldadeldei“
„From now on you should be my chevalier and I'm your bride“
Said the beautiful Dummdidudel to her beloved Dideldei
But the gorgeous maid was longing for her old time
She kept her maiden name Dummdidudel, without bullshit
The merchant Dideldei was cool and agreed with her
And from then on they were known as Dummdidudeldideldei
 
[Pre-Refrain]
And they went in the tavern
And they drank noble mead (Noble mead)
And they dreamed into the distance
And they sang this song
And they went in the tavern
And they drank noble mead (Noble mead)
And they dreamed into the distance
And they sang this song
 
[Refrain]
Dummdidadeldudeldadeldummdidadeldei
Dummdidadeldudeldadeldudeldadeldei
 
[Outro]
Hey!
 

Created from matter

Burning inwardly with strong anger, in my bitterness I speak to my soul

Born to be free

I’m sitting on the side of the road
I’m in no hurry and people rush quickly past me
And I wonder to myself what I often wonder
Why are we trapped and not free?
Free of strange thoughts and strange words
Caught by strange fantasies?
Why are we not free?
For old dreams, your own path and new utopia?
 
Go with the clouds, go with the wind
Let’s build palaces of delight
Go with the clouds, go with the wind
 
We are born to be free
To scream against every storm
We’ll bring back paradise
Freedom and happiness
 
I dream of a world
Of equal opportunity, of freedom and life without coercion
In which justice is more than just a word
And skin color doesn’t matter
I believe in the power of our own dreams
In castles in the air, the utopia
Maybe this world will change again
Maybe tomorrow and maybe never
 
Go with the clouds, go with the wind
Let’s build palaces of delight
Go with the clouds, go with the wind
 
We are born to be free
To scream against every storm
We’ll bring back paradise
Freedom and happiness
 
Don’t dream alone any longer
Into the day
Let’s dance with dreams
Let’s fly with storms
 
We are born to be free
To scream against every storm
We’ll bring back paradise
Freedom and happiness
 
We’re born to be free
Tear new walls down
We’ll bring back paradise
We’re born to be free
We’re born to be free
 

Born to be free

I’m sitting on the side of the road
I’m in no hurry and people rush quickly past me
And I wonder to myself what I often wonder
Why are we trapped and not free?
Free of strange thoughts and strange words
Caught by strange fantasies?
Why are we not free?
For old dreams, your own path and new utopia?
 
Go with the clouds, go with the wind
Let’s build palaces of delight
Go with the clouds, go with the wind
 
We are born to be free
To scream against every storm
We’ll bring back paradise
Freedom and happiness
 
I dream of a world
Of equal opportunity, of freedom and life without coercion
In which justice is more than just a word
And skin color doesn’t matter
I believe in the power of our own dreams
In castles in the air, the utopia
Maybe this world will change again
Maybe tomorrow and maybe never
 
Go with the clouds, go with the wind
Let’s build palaces of delight
Go with the clouds, go with the wind
 
We are born to be free
To scream against every storm
We’ll bring back paradise
Freedom and happiness
 
Don’t dream alone any longer
Into the day
Let’s dance with dreams
Let’s fly with storms
 
We are born to be free
To scream against every storm
We’ll bring back paradise
Freedom and happiness
 
We’re born to be free
Tear new walls down
We’ll bring back paradise
We’re born to be free
We’re born to be free
 

None of the millions

Oh oh oh...
 
I’m a free maverick
A thinker, an exotic person
I’m not Superman, but rather Don Quixote
 
For adapted thinking
I’ll never get a medal
If I wanted to be comfortable for assholes
I would have been born a chair
 
I’m uncomfortable and loud
I’ll write it in my skin
I’m not one of the millions
 
I’m uncomfortable and loud
I say what nobody dares to
I have no regrets
I’m not one of the millions
 
Oh oh oh...
I like to think for myself
Not like conformists
Not like those who regurgitate talking points
Pied pipers and fascists
 
I run on your paths
Cross country through this world
Not on paths of thought
But rather as I like it
 
I’m uncomfortable and loud
I’ll write it in my skin
I’m not one of the millions
 
I’m uncomfortable and loud
I say what nobody dares to
I have no regrets
I’m not one of the millions
 
I shit on law and order
Traditions and morality
I dance on the world’s nose 1
I don’t care what’s proper
 
I shit on law and order
Traditions and morality
I dance on the world’s nose
I don’t care what’s proper
 
I’m uncomfortable and loud
I’ll write it in my skin
I’m not one of the millions
 
I’m uncomfortable and loud
I say what nobody dares to
I have no regrets
I’m not one of the millions
 
Oh oh oh...
 

• 1. a German idiom, basically meaning to do whatever you want right in front of the person who doesn’t want you to.

Palm trees of Steel

Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
 
I can’t listen anymore anymore, I can’t stand you
All the foaming at the mouth and the red faces
All the haters that scream aloud, they never get it:
The shit here is real and not climate hysteria
Man, the polar caps are melting like a block of ice
Your drink isn’t too warm, but the Earth is too hot
Fuck your “Fake News”, I don’t care what you believe
Because the jungle is burning for all the palms trees of steel
 
(Oh-oh-oh-oh) In the black rain, that falls like ashes
(Oh-oh-oh-oh) Only palm trees of steel stay
(Oh-oh-oh-oh) In the black rain, that falls like ashes
(Oh-oh-oh-oh) Under palm trees of steel the world burns around us
 
Your screams are stupid agitation, like a shot in the face
Yes, your picture is your opinion and your shitty meme has weight
Everyone is flying on vacation, it’s never been cheaper
Parking boldly in front of the airport in the latest SUV
None of us is holy, suffocating in our own filth,
But who really needs rotten meat with plastic silverware?
Because in a sea of plastic, the last whale dies
Then a quick cocktail under palm trees of steel
 
(Oh-oh-oh-oh) In the black rain, that falls like ashes
(Oh-oh-oh-oh) Only palm trees of steel stay
(Oh-oh-oh-oh) In the black rain, that falls like ashes
(Oh-oh-oh-oh) Under palm trees of steel the world burns around us
(Oh-oh-oh-oh) In the black rain, that falls like ashes
(Oh-oh-oh-oh) Only palm trees of steel stay
(Oh-oh-oh-oh) In the black rain, that falls like ashes
(Oh-oh-oh-oh) Under palm trees of steel the world burns around us
 

Rose in the winter

When we met back then
My soul was bitterly cold
Frost gripped my life
My figure appeared gloomy
Frost laid on my temples
Winter stayed all year
When the warmth of old love
Had long since given way to the white in my heart
 
Rose in the winter, you warm my heart
Rose in the winter, when the snow falls on us
Rose in the winter, you shine for me
Rose in the winter, I love you
 
You are the rose of my life
You are warm in the cold night
Where only ice and cold live
You have reignited my fire
And on some winter evenings
I’ve cried with you
With the tears came the spring
Winter flees, the ice melts, the sun shines
 
Rose in the winter, you warm my heart
Rose in the winter, when the snow falls on us
Rose in the winter, you shine for me
Rose in the winter, I love you
 
When my days grow shorter
And leaves fall from your branches
And the winter is coming, your courage fading
Then I’ll shine in your world
 
When your lights grow faint
And the cold creeps through your bones
Then I’ll bloom with love, then I’ll be your rose
 
Rose in the winter, you warm my heart
Rose in the winter, when the snow falls on us
Rose in the winter, you shine for me
Rose in the winter, I love you
 
Rose in the winter, you warm my heart
Rose in the winter, when the snow falls on us
Rose in the winter, you shine for me
Rose in the winter, I love you
 

Bring me back

Damn it, what kind of evening was that?
Damn it, what kind of night was that?
That the two of us escalated together
I never would of thought
Damn it, what kind of evening was that?
At first I didn’t get it
But then you had your name
Tattooed into my soul, in my soul
 
Bring me back to that night, to that evening
Bring me back, back, back, back to you
Just bring this moment back to me for an eternity
Back, back, back, back to you
 
Damn it, what kind of evening was that?
Your beer is still on the table
Everything here screams your name
My playlist also sings about you
Damn it, what kind of night was that?
My heart is thoroughly demolished
Then you gave me a smile
Exorcising my free will, my free will
 
Bring me back to that night, to that evening
Bring me back, back, back, back to you
Just bring this moment back to me for an eternity
Back, back, back, back to you
 
Damn it, what kind of evening was that?
Long night, short process
You brought me to your court
And your judgement was my own
 
Bring me back, back, back back to you
 
Bring me back to that night, to that evening
Bring me back, back, back, back to you
Just bring this moment back to me for an eternity
Back, back, back, back to you
 

Lines in the sand

I see the bunkers on the beach, graffiti on the wall, the peace sign faded
Mute witnesses of time, it’s that time again, it’s hated again
I think nothing of borders, of nation and Fatherland
They are just thin lines, painted in fine sand
 
Lines in the sand, lines in the sand
What is a Fatherland?
Lines in the sand, lines in the sand
What about the billions dead
On account of all the patriots?
Where is the mind
With all the lines in the sand, lines in the sand
 
What does that mean, people and nation, what is a Fatherland?
Does it come back, the songs of the homeland, the raised hand?
Barbed wire and walls between no-mans-land
Why do we separate ourselves by lines painted in fine sand?
 
Lines in the sand, lines in the sand
What is a Fatherland?
Lines in the sand, lines in the sand
What about the billions dead
On account of all the patriots?
Where is the mind
With all the lines in the sand, lines in the sand
 
And in the wind of time
When nothing more remains
The sand is blown away
I’m curious
What will this country
In a thousand years stand for?
For what war, for what death, for what suffering, for what need?
For what war, for what death, for what suffering, for what need?
For a Fatherland
Where is the mind
With all the lines in the sand?
 
Lines in the sand, lines in the sand
What is a Fatherland?
Lines in the sand, lines in the sand
What about the billions dead
On account of all the patriots?
Where is the mind
With all the lines in the sand, lines in the sand
 

Lionheart

The winter again once again lays
On the forest its white dress
A year dies again
And my time is running out
How many tears can I cry
In the gray of the morning dew?
How many days will the the walls
Of the Trifel Castle be my home?
Lionheart, Lionheart
When will you finally return home?
 
Lionheart, oh Lionheart
Lionheart, Lionheart
Your banner shows courage
A dream of freedom
A shield red as blood
 
Lionheart, Lionheart
Like drums in the night
Your heart of fire
Leads you to the next battle
 
Fallen off long ago
Has the cross on my chest
Long forgotten
Is the bitter loss
The battles have long been fought
For the once promised land
We all that of it
As more than dead sand
 
England’s white cliffs
Oh Lionheart
So close and yet so far
Oh Lionheart
A king without a throne
Oh Lionheart
A sky without stars
Oh Lionheart
 

White as Snow

Versions: #1
I’ve been given oh so many names
Perchta, Gode, Hel, and Frigg
I bestow life and take it away
Either one with just one look
 
You children know me as Mother Holle1
Which has its stem in Hold and Hölle2
My heart is delighted by well-behaved children
But the lazy ones I condemn
 
You fancy that I live upon the clouds
As does the fairy godmother in her song
And if a feather falls from its pillow
It dances down to earth as snow
 
White as snow is my hair
White as snow gleams my gown
White as snow deathly cold descends
In harsh nights upon the countryside
White as snow
White as snow
White as snow deathly cold descends
In harsh nights upon the countryside
 
For twelve nights in the twelfth month
I ride with the Wild Hunt3
At my side rides Servant Rupert4 5
Who asks each little child
 
If they were well-behaved or idle
While last year ran its course
The Wicked Servant6punishes with his cane
But I gobble lazy children up!
 
White as snow is my hair
White as snow gleams my gown
White as snow deathly cold descends
In harsh nights upon the countryside
White as snow
White as snow
White as snow deathly cold descends
In harsh nights upon the countryside
 
My castle is cold and dark
It lies at the foot of the World Tree7
In my kingdom there are no heroes
Only the end of a dream
 
White as snow is my hair
White as snow gleams my gown
White as snow deathly cold descends
In harsh nights upon the countryside
White as snow
White as snow
White as snow deathly cold descends
In harsh nights upon the countryside
 

• 1. See Wikipedia -
• 2. The name is thought to originate from 'huld,' meaning 'gracious,' 'sympathetic,' 'friendly.' 'Hölle' is more self-explanatory, meaning 'hell.'
• 3.
• 4. Knecht Ruprecht has a few different names in English, one of them being Farmhand Rupert, which seemed a little unwieldy.
• 5.
• 6. Der schwarze Knecht, meaning Servant Rupert. 'Schwarz' here refers to being tainted or wicked
• 7. Yggdrasil

She dances alone

[Verse 1]
Her reflection in the window
Seems so mat and worn out
And outside the windowpane
Fades slowly the city light
 
[Verse 2]
With closed eyes
In the pale light of a neon
She thinks of good times
Hears music and dances alone
 
[Refrain]
She dances alone
The music in her ear's core
She dances alone
As thousand times before
 
She was never like others
And she never wants to be
Her own life is what she lives
She dances alone, and she is free
 
[Verse 3]
Her song tells about freedom
About sunshine and light
About courage and confidence
Tells about being different
 
[Verse 4]
Tells about relieved hours
About fear and loneliness
But she doesn't regrets anything
She hears music, and dances alone
 
[Refrain]
She dances alone
The music in her ear's core
She dances alone
As thousand times before
 
She was never like others
And she never wants to be
Her own life is what she lives
She is free
 
[Refrain - again]
She dances alone
The music in her ear's core
She dances alone
As thousand times before
 
She was never like others
And she never wants to be
Her own life is what she lives
She is free
 
[Verse 5]
When it becomes dark around her
In the night, inside dances she
Her own life is what she lives
She dances alone, and she is free
 

I am wholly blooming

This time is joyous, oh maidens
Now rejoice
All you youths
Oh! Oh! I am wholly blooming
 
Now I am wholly burning with virginal love
It is a new, new love, with which I am consumed
It is a new, new love, with which I am consumed
 
Be silent, nightingale, for a while
Arise, old song, from the breast
Oh! Oh! I am wholly blooming
 
Now I am wholly burning with virginal love
It is a new, new love, with which I am consumed
It is a new, new love, with which I am consumed
 
...
...
...
...
 
...
Come, mistress, with joy
Come, come, beautiful! Now I am consumed
Oh! Oh! I am wholly blooming
 
Now I am wholly burning with virginal love
It is a new, new love, with which I am consumed
It is a new, new love, with which I am consumed
 

Pied Piper

Ich swear hot love pledges
Words turn into poems
And every maid, who I choose,
Sees me, but recognizes me not
I sing soft love songs
Sugar-sweet melody
Oh beautiful woman in your bodice
Listen, but never answer me
Listen, but never answer me
 
Chorus:
I am a Pied Piper
ne'er-do-well
Fan the flame of lust and hot love
Sow hope, harvest pain-
I am the death in a wedding dress
I'm a Pied Piper
 
Cadences flatter you daringly
Sing you my spell laughingly
Since all have succumbed
If not today, then eventually
My metaphors are rotten
And frivolous my apercu
And later, under your blanket
Beckons the reward for my struggle
My courtship plays with your hair
Caress your skin
But believe me,
Promises were only build on loose sand
 
Chorus
 
I sow hope without effort
Take your heart as a sacrifice
But the love cannot bloom
For I am without loyalty
 

I will be the wind

[Verse 1]
I don't want to run away anymore
I'm worn-out and empty
The guilt had me arrested
And I can be around no more
 
[Verse 2]
Tied and condemned
By the past
Calling me the faulty one
Bringing up old times
 
[Refrain]
I will be the wind
I will break every chain
Entering the emptiness, falling in the wind
I will be the wind
I let go and let myself fall
I will be free and become the wind
 
[Verse 3]
In letting go lies the freedom
I start to understand
The past cannot be changed
No hand can turn it backwards
 
[Verse 4]
Everything stays regular
And nothing becomes undone
Today can make it better
Allways continue to move on
 
[Refrain]
I will be the wind
I will break every chain
Entering the emptynes, falling in the wind
I will be the wind
I let go and let myself fall
I will be free and become the wind
 
[Verse 5]
I am the wind of change
Wind in the new year
A strongly culminated storm
The wind in your hair
 
[Refrain]
I will be the wind
I will break every chain
Entering the emptynes, falling in the wind
I will be the wind
I let go and let myself fall
I will be free and become the wind
 
I will be the wind!
 

Thorn in the ear

[Verse 1]
We should be simply holding our mugs
Because we don't understand
We should simply just chat
And not stand in the way
But once stupidity threatens our world
Then we are missing the humour
Music is not like a solution
But it's a thorn in the ear
Music is not like a solution
But she's a thorn in the ear
 
[Refrain]
We are the music, straight and honest
We are the music, and we still have lots ahead
(Woohoohooo)
We are the sting (Woohoohoo)
Placed in the ass (Woohoohoo)
We are the music, we are a thorn in the ear
 
[Verse 2]
What sould the songs really cause
For who does not listen
Leaving us to rest with your politics
No more, you too are digusted
But who never plays the ball foreward
They shoot in their own goal
Music is not like a solution
But it's a thorn in the ear
Music is not like a solution
But she's a thorn in the ear
 
[Refrain]
We are the music, straight and honest
We are the music, and we still have lots ahead
(Woohoohooo)
We are the sting (Woohoohoo)
Placed in the ass (Woohoohoo)
We are the music, we are a thorn in the ear
 
[Verse 3]
Are we too loud for you?
We are a thorn in the ear
Are we too unpleasant
We are a thorn in the ear
We are not going to turn into just chatters
We are a thorn in the ear
There's no way for us to hold our mugs
We are a thorn in the ear
 
[Refrain]
We are the music, straight and honest
We are the music and we have lots ahead
(Woohoohoo)
We are the sting (Woohoohoo)
Placed in the ass (Woohoohoo)
We are the music, we are a thorn in the ear
(Woohoohoo)
We are the sting (Woohoohoo)
Placed in the ass (Woohoohoo)
We are the music, we are a thorn in the ear
A thorn in the ear
 

Brunhild

On an island of fire and ice
Located in the northern sea
Lies the maiden Brunhild in eternal sleep
Equipped with armor and spear
A demon of death
Odin's valkyrie
She was home at the battlefield
Now she's surrounded by a ring
Of divine fire
In captivity at Castle Isenstein
 
But nothing lasts forever
So stands one day
Siegfried of Castle Isenstein
He rode through fire
Breaking Odin's chains
In nine nights alone with her
Burning in love
Took her innocence
Immortality was it's price
She sworn him love
And eternal loyalty
Witnessed by fire and ice
 
Clear as the ice, pure as the fire
And as the morning, so red
So let us be bound
We are riding together
Through life and in the death
Clear as the ice, pure as the fire
And as the morning, so red
So let us be bound
We are riding together
Through life and in death
 
Betrayed by intrigue
On his journey
Siegfried took the maiden to Krimhild
So he broke the oath
Giving up on his life
And now lies as a corpse to be shown
To cremation came
The maiden Burnhild
Is merging into flaming red
Welcoming the beloved
Jumps to him in the fire
And rode with him in the death
 
Clear as the ice, pure as the fire
And as the morning, so red
So let us be bound
We are riding together
Through life and in the death
Clear as the ice, pure as the fire
And as the morning, so red
So let us be bound
We are riding together
Through life and in death
 
As clear as the ice
As pure as the fire
We are riding together
Even in death
As clear as the ice
As pure as the fire
We are riding together
Even in death
 

Growth above All Else

Versions: #2
Driven by desire for gain,
drunken by velocity
are vanity, growth and ego,
three deadly sins of our time.
 
Our hunger is limitless
Why don't we ever get full?
Our progress is merciless,
Our hand is overstrung
 
Our hunger is limitless
Why don't we ever get full?
Blind from greed no one here sees
that all growth has its limits.
 
Growth, growth above all else
Everything else in the world
Let us all strive for it
Until the last coin falls.
Vanity and greed and ego
are what the world sustains.
 
Growth, growth above all else
Everything else in the world.
 
Like pestilence and vermin
our money multiplies from interest
Standstill means death - everything must grow
like the margins of profit.
 
Mercilessly everything grows on and on,
sets the whole world on fire!
Let's stick at nothing,
An eye for an eye, and a hand for a hand
 
Mercilessly this plague grows
Until the end of this road
The ulcer is growing in you as well,
because unchecked growth is also called cancer.
 
Growth, growth above all else
Everything else in the world
Let us all strive for it
Until the last coin falls.
Vanity and greed and ego
are what the world sustains.
 
Growth, growth above all else
Everything else in the world.
 
Growth, growth above all else
Everything else in the world.
 
Stinginess and avarice and interest
are a guarantee of money -
Grow in the gleam of our gold,
grow, dear balance!
 

The King's Executioner

I'm tired of the dead
Doomed
No fame and no honour
Pay for all the suffering
I don't want to die
But I've lived enough
I don't know where it'll end
I don't know how it'll go on
 
My word condemns to death
My trade brings death
Will never give life
Spreads no charity
I'm a suppier of hell
Denies the kingdom of heaven
Before God and before the executioner
All men are equal
 
I'm the king's executioner
Lie on the scaffold myself
I'm a henchman of the devil
But I'm playing god
 
I'm the king's executioner
My hand holds the guillotine
Damend to live death
My salvation is forfit
 
I dance between death and life
Lacking any love
I only think of the hours
I counted together with you
To me you are the sun
That'll never shine for me again
I only feel the cold now
I never cried for you
 
I'm the king's executioner
Lie on the scaffold myself
I'm a henchman of the devil
But I'm playing god
 
I'm the king's executioner
My hand holds the guillotine
Damend to live death
My salvation is forfit
 
I'm the king's executioner
 
I'm the king's executioner
Lie on the scaffold myself
I'm a henchman of the devil
But I'm playing god
 
I'm the king's executioner
My hand holds the guillotine
Damend to live death
My salvation is forfit
 

Harbour of Silence

Heavily the waves break against the shore
The brittle stone defies them
I stand allone in the rain
No ship for months I spot
Seagulls on the horizon, they're calling
Full of longing and pain, it seems to me
By gaze dreamily trails off far away
Like thunder and storm it sounds to my ears
 
Fled from the confusions of cities
The worries of life lose their meaning
At the harbour long forgotten
The hours trickle away like the sand
 
The pebbles at the old shore
Ground by wind and salty sea
Seem like giant pearls
Here in my hand they weigh heavy
Sink in foamy crests
A vortex so strong, it drags them down
They lie forever forgotten
At the bottom of the sea in their eternal grave
 
Fled from the confusions of cities
The worries of life lose their meaning
At the harbour long forgotten
The hours trickle away like the sand
 
Often I make my rounds
At the loney beach, where once ships sailed
The people have long since gone
Their traces nowhere to be seen
Melancholy I go home
I turn around, I miss the sand
At the hearth I while my hours
Then I imagine I'm still at the beach
 
Fled from the confusions of cities
The worries of life lose their meaning
At the harbour long forgotten
The hours trickle away like the sand
 

Fiat Lux

Death snuck up to me on quiet feet
Secretly entered through the back door
I could neither hear nor see him
And my lips never felt his kiss
His knife glid through my bone and marrow
Birthed invisible fire there
In which I have to burn full of pain
 
Fiat Lux
You demon under ur yoke
Promised us
A thousand delights
Fiat Lux
The spirit who crawled out of the bottle
You shine like
A thousand suns
 
In me smolders the demon's grim flame
Consumed me, yet couldn't be seen
The embers fed only death and the cold of the grave
Sneakily stole my dignity and hair
So I died, without understanding, only left behind
Irradiated shell of the man
Who I once was
 
Fiat Lux
You demon under ur yoke
Promised us
A thousand delights
Fiat Lux
The spirit who crawled out of the bottle
You shine like
A thousand suns
 
Your origin lies in the smallest of all parts
When indivisible suddenly became divisible
But like Faust and the sorcerer's apprentice before
We were weak and blind to the danger
 
Fiat Lux
You demon under ur yoke
Promised us
A thousand delights
Fiat Lux
The spirit who crawled out of the bottle
You shine like
A thousand suns
 

God doesn't play dice

Embraced by machines
Animated by cannulas
Thus I find you
And play God
Today the cards will be dealt anew
Take your cards
And your sickbed
Becomes a scaffold
 
[The dice are marked Today death holds court Coincidence is bought God doesn't play dice Play your cards I'll carry you into the light Your life is forfit God doesn't play dice]
 
[God doesn't play dice God doesn't play dice God doesn't play dice]
 
Damned by arbitrariness
To eternal life
Because gods in white
Prolong your suffering
Hanged on machines
Bound by cables
And your hospital gowl
Becomes your shroud
 
[The dice are marked Today death holds court Coincidence is bought God doesn't play dice Play your cards I'll carry you into the light Your life is forfit God doesn't play dice]
 
[God doesn't play dice God doesn't play dice God doesn't play dice God doesn't play dice]
 
It's destiny, not to die
Who tears your thread of life
Who clings you to life
 
Can you cheat in the last game
Who's rolling your dice
Alea iacta est
 
[The dice are marked Today death holds court Coincidence is bought God doesn't play dice Play your cards I'll carry you into the light Your life is forfit God doesn't play dice]
 
[The dice are marked Today death holds court Play your cards I'll carry you into the light]
 
God doesn't play dice God doesn't play dice Play your cards I'll carry you into the light Your life is forfit God doesn't play dice]
 

Daedalus

Look ealge, the work is done
The leap into freedom made from feathers
Put on these wings, the plan is bold
Together we fly towards the skies
 
The winds tear wildly at my wings
Boisterous wrestling of heavenly forces
Enchanting swooshing unleashes the spirit
Only now I can see what freedom promises
 
Can you see the sun
Can you feel the fire
You're flying too high, the sun burns hot
I want to get up high, that's my pursuit
From the wings wax drips like sweat
Who never dares will never live
You're flying too high, the sun burns hot
I want to get up high, that's my pursuit
 
Your wings, they are melting, the feathers are burning
Too sure and proud to see the danger
You're falling ablaze towards the sea
Receive the price for impudent pursuit!
 
Your wings, they are melting, the feathers are burning
Too sure and proud to see the danger
You're falling ablaze towards the sea
Receive the price for impudent pursuit!
 
Can you see the sun
Can you feel the fire
You're flying too high, the sun burns hot
I want to get up high, that's my pursuit
From the wings wax drips like sweat
Who never dares will never live
You're flying too high, the sun burns hot
I want to get up high, that's my pursuit
 
And though I fell ablaze towards the sea
Freedom never is an impudent pursuit
 

At a Crossroads

Dreams scattered like spray
Were our castles built on sand?
The waves of life rise high
A fool who trusts love blindly
Nothing lasts forever, only change
Like the tides it sets the pace
Joy and suffering are bound by a deal
Is pain love's last act?
 
Sing with me my love song
That takes us out of this world
Sing of what is happening today
That deeply touches our heart
Sing and share your pain with me
That strikes wounds and yet frees
 
Where once there was my voice
Whose sound was familiar to me
Is now emptiness, is now silence
No sound reaches my ear
Emotions chase the thoughts
LIke leaves turning in dance
Stories surround images
Blown away by cold wind like dust
 
The dark clouds hang low
No light breaks through the darkness
But sure to follow the shadow
Is new love's shining light
This fire too will fade
Painfully end in suffering
But I will stand up courageously
Because the choice'd be not to live
 

Awakening

When full moon bleaches the colours, when innocence gives way to experience
When white bedsheet carries traces, when a night shapes your life
The journey to yourself begins, you ask questions you usually don't ask
You stop to conform to society, you happily start to break the norms
 
Follow me, let the others talk, it's your own life that counts
 
When dream and being awake intermingle
When black and white run into grey
When limits are no longer binding
When reason blurs in intoxication
You start to discover yourself, desire will wake the beast in you
Let's go of leashes where there are none, the child in you will die
 
When head and heart contradict each other, when dreams stab into your soul
When trust becomes daring, when emotion confuses your mind
The the end of your time draws near, recognise yourself the way you are
Salvation lies in you allone, finally start being yourself
 
Follow me, let the others talk, it's your own life that counts
Recognise yourself! Profess yourself!
Nothing ventured, nothing gained, don't let your dreams come to nothing
Take my hand and follow me, because the road leads you to yourself
 

The Call

Close your eyes beautiful child,
listen carefully, my song begins
I'll explain a world to you,
in which you have nothing missing
 
Have no fear, trust me blind
when we're on our journey
I'll take the shadows from your face
and take you to the warm light!
 
Come and follow my dream
I'll carry you through time and space
This sound gently surrounds you,
don't look back, the path is long
 
Turn in dance, do not stand still
Let the path converge
A gentle breeze touches you softly
The mist lovingly passes over you
 
The song will become louder, never ending
Only you hear the melody
The rhythm, only your heart still beats
Now carry yourself from this life
 
Close your eyes my beautiful child
Listen carefully, my song begins!