999 [English translation]

For all of my life I have heard a song

A lullaby you sung once

For all of my life I have trusted in myself

but now I need your help

For all of my life I have heard a song

A song my mother sung once

For all of my life I have tried to think for myself

but I will come no further without your help

All my thoughts revolve around sick things

Those dreams that we dreamed came from the borderland behind the barbed wire

where trenches were dug when somebody else built the country while we slept

Now we are awake but we don't recognize ourselves

They have torn our streets, burnt down the playgrounds

where we played as children

How ever far you have come

there is always further still

There was a light that never goes out

in the songs from my childhood

For all of my life I have trusted in my luck

but this I cannot wriggle myself out of

All our ideals come from a pink eighties

So now we think of travelling, White Nights, Ian Curtis

Are you Michael Jackson or Michael Bolton

Are you Pepsi do you have Coke

Are you profitable in your nakedness, your bruises and calluses

You have goosebumps because you are freezing, is this the best that life had to give?

How ever far you have come

there is always further still

All my thoughts revolve around expensive things

Oh baby where have you been

we have already lit the grill

we have waited here in the rain for something that is not happening

and which will never happen

There is only a vague feeling

of that something got lost

that we wasted our best time on envy

Further we have not come

The 999 things that I would never do

They are weighed up by 999 worse things I have done

The 999 things that I would never do

They are weighed up by 999 worse things that I have already done