Doch die Gitter schweigen [English translation]

He only thought of the big thing, but the bars stay silent.

And he believed that he would make it, the big thing.

Life is short and death is far too long, but the bars stay silent.

What I need, I take, was his song, his song.

And he pretended to be brutal, only money counted for him, but the bars stay silent.

He became very small when he was caught then.

Now he sits there and cries out his eyes, but the bars stay silent.

He knows what he'll do when he gets out of there, when he gets out of there.

He only thought of the big thing, but the bars stay silent.

Because he believed that his life started with it, his life started with it,

The false friends are long in the past, but the bars stay silent.

And when he thinks about it, it hurts him, yes, it hurts him.