Der Krieg ist vorbei [English translation]

[Verse 1]

They plant geraniums in front of boarded up windows

The windows will probably stay like this for now

One doesn't have to see what impels the others

A few of the people who have lived here for years

Aren't quite how they used to be

They drink tea from broken cups

One sometimes just has to let things slide

And only in the same way for those who fade away on the walls

They say: "Look, the front of the house is being swept!"

Before the dust has even laid

They build new doors in their wall-less rooms

"Constantly whining would only make everything worse,"

Says the woman from the third floor, as she searches in the ruins

For a radio for her balcony

She says she likes this song

And every radio plays a Hallelujah

The war is over

And I don't know how one stops

Only how one begins

Not how one stops

Only how one begins

Every radio says "Hey, what are you doing here?"

The war is over

Two, three, four

What are you still doing here?

[Verse 2]

A fat cat sits in front of every mousehole

In every house here, a dead man becomes a father

A shopping center in every crater

Shining neon letters say: "Look, everything's blooming!"

Even when the ashes are still glowing

A mangy bear dances in rattling chains

He leads the parade of those who are still to be saved

They carry the others on their beds

And the man with the megaphone says: everything must go!

And he paints a cross onto my house

And every radio says "Hey, what are you doing here?

The war is over."

[Bridge]

He says: "Come, drop your weapons!

Take my hand, my hand

Drop your weapons!

Take my hand, my hand

Drop your weapons!

Take my hand, my hand

Drop your weapons!

Take my hand, my hand

Drop your weapons!

Take my hand, my hand

Drop your weapons!

Take my hand, my hand

Drop your weapons!

Take my hand, my hand

Drop your weapons!

Take my hand, my hand

Drop your weapons!

Take my hand, my hand, my hand..."

[Outro]

Don't know how one stops

Only how one begins

Not how one stops

Only how one begins

Every radio says "Hey, what are you doing here?"

The war is over

Two, three, four

What are you still doing here?