An Tagen wie diesen [English translation]

Mornin‘ Mornin‘ – what’s up?

All right with you? How late?

Soon nine – okay.

Want to just go out, gettin’ breakfast now

Switch the walkman on, shut the door in front

Run the street along, up to the general store

‘Cause they’ve got the very best buns far and wide

At the counter I can skim what the papers write

Something about a major offensive

Reams of bombs on a tiny town

Many people having lost their lives

And razed to the ground in only one night

I pay and leave the baker

Still hear the news presenter

“Situation again dramatically aggravated, today fantastic weather“

Suddenly there’s a bang sound, thousand shards all around

The neighbour’s cat in a road accident is found

The sight can really demoralize

How dare this filthy beast die right before my eyes?

CHORUS:

Absolutely crazy show,

On TV and on radio,

Like a smile of glee the sun’s glow,

On days like these

Nobody who tells me how so,

At breakfast or evening meal,

The questions nag so merciless,

On days like these

A million threatened to starve dead estimated by the UNICEF

While I just shred healthy fruit in the moulinex

See a child in whose sad eyes a fly sits

Know that that’s really gruesome but f* man I feel nix

What on earth is up with me, damn how ‘s it possible in which way?

Maybe I’ve seen it too often yeah one sees it nearly every day

But why can’t even that no longer scare me these days

When people croak of dirty water someplace?

This numb feeling, this void in my head

Stuff like that can’t happen to us and what if it did?

And the questions tear me to bits, I can’t stand the sh*

They have nowt to eat there anymore and I’ve stones in my stomach!

Chorus

What did he just say on such a normal Saturday

Happened in brutish manner a totally brutal attack

Where six people died, the wounded cry out names

These horrible deeds now keep me awake

And I still see precisely the picture on TV

A young man standing there in the dust

Begging for child and wife

Now I ask myself what’s it like when you lose your child

Even before its (had its) first birthday

But that’s surpassing my imaginary faculty

Maybe the attackers were full of hatred for the opposers

Maybe there was love for familes and they were as well even fathers

Sometimes when I watch the news I feel something weird happens to me

Because now we are parents too,

Have brought a child the world into

Then it happens that I get fear of something occurring to us,

That one loses the one one loves, that this really occurs

In the middle of the night I wake up and am drenched in sweat,

Sneak into the bed of my daughter and hear her breathing all muted

Chorus

What a crazy show

On TV and on radio

Like a smile of glee thereby the sun’s glow,

I can’t cast off the pictures anymore

At breakfast or at evening meal

Nobody able to tell me how so.