999 [English translation]

For my whole life I have heard a song

A lullaby you once sang

For my whole life I have relied on myself

But now I need your help

For my whole life I have heard a song

A song my mother once sang

For my whole life I have tried to think for myself

But I won't get any farther without your help

All my thoughts relate to sick things

Those dreams we dreamt came from bordering countries past the barbed wire

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

Now we are awake but we don't recognize ourselves

They have torn up our streets, burnt down the playgrounds

Where we hung out as kids

How ever long you have come

It is always longer still

There was a light that never burned out

In the songs from my childhood

For my whole life I have relied on my luck

But I can never get myself out of this

All of our ideals come from the eighties

Now we are thinking of travels, White Nights, Ian Curtis

Are you Michael Jackson or Machael Bolton

Are you Pepsi, do you have Cola

Are you lonely in your nakedness, your bruises and calluses

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

However long you have come

It is always longer still

All my thoughts relate to 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 will never happen

It is just a vague feeling

Of something lost

That we wasted our best times on jealousy

We have not come far

Those 999 things I will never get to do

That adds up to 999 worse things I did

Those 999 things I will never get to do

That adds up to 999 worse things I did