999 [English translation]

Throughout my life I have heard a song

A lullaby you once sang

Throughout my life I have believed in myself

But now I need your help

Throughout my life I have heard a song

A song my mother once sang

Throughout my life I've tried to think for myself

But I won't get any further without your help

All of my thoughts revolve around sick things

Those dreams we dreamt came from the borderland beyond the barbed wire

Where trenches were dug when someone else built the country while we slept

Now we are awake but we don't recognize ourselves

They have destroyed our streets, burned down our playgrounds

Where we hung out as children

How long has it been

It is all still there

There was a light that never went out

In the songs from my childhood

Throughout my life I've believed in my luck

But this I cannot wriggle myself out of

All of our ideals come from a pink 80's

So now we're thinking of travelling, White nights, Ian Curtis

Are you Michael Jackson or Michael Bolton?

Are you Pepsi, do you have cola?

Are you profitable in your nudity, your bruises and calluses

You have goosebumps because you're cold, is this the best life had to give?

How long has it been

It is all still there

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 on something that isn't happening

and will never happen

It's just a vague feeling

that something has been lost

That we wasted our best years on envy

We haven't come any further

Those 999 things I would never do

They are weighed up to 999 worse things I have done

Those 999 things I would never do

They are weighed up to 999 worse things I have already done