Du Hure 2009 [English translation]

[Part 1]

Lukewarm feelings, neither 'Yes' nor 'No'

Relative - time to go - I'm Einstein

She wears that defiant look, that I-Don't-Give-A-Shit look

It goes 'click' in my head, I say 'Then it was nothing'

Shrugging, nothing more, I'm gone, who isn't?

With every step away from here, everything loses its colour

It's too much for my nerves,

I gotta run, gotta smoke, gotta get drunk,

Gotta hide inside myself,

Gotta cut myself off from the outside world, buy something,

Gotta swim among the crowd, dive into the nightlife

I see myself from above: A dark figure going astray,

Black trench coat, soundtrack, white noise

Invisible behind me, a cape of rubbish feelings

I want to hang it up, take it off, put it town

The moon projects its face in

The dark grey rain showers,

Evading clouds and their hundred eyes...

[Chorus]

You look at me and say I should be able to read lips

The only one who ever believed in us was me

We just stay silent, 'cause I don't know what love is anymore

Did you know that someone had destroyed your ivory tower?

You look at me and I wish you were able to read lips,

'Cause my thoughts are shouting at you to take a rope and end it all1

You think that we always get whatever we want in life

If we're simply always ready to give a fuck about it...

[Part 2]

What a nightmare, what a fucked up day

In a fucked up month

In a fucked up year

In a fucked up life

Fucked up soul only dealing

With fucked up subjects

At 16, I seriously thought I gave a fuck about everything

Everything that took its toll can be seen in my eyes

When I feel like shit, I write my best songs

Depressing mood, no love, lousy praised songs

I wrote way too many of those,

I'm sitting at the bottom of the well,

I write screams, let the wounds fall silent

[Chorus]

You look at me and say I should be able to read lips

The only one who ever believed in us was me

We just stay silent, 'cause I don't know what love is anymore

Did you know that someone had destroyed your ivory tower?

You look at me and I wish you were able to read lips,

'Cause my thoughts are shouting at you to take a rope and end it all

You think that we always get whatever we want in life

If we're simply always ready to give a fuck about it...

[Part 3]

All of a sudden she stands there, her face swollen from crying

Her make-up is running down, down, down

Her eyes are black and wide - look up here!

Steady look, all in black, my eyes unscathed

Tight leggings, cleavage showing - big entrance

In her eyes, "Sorry!" under purple lights

The old trick: make up sex2

Quickly suppressing the knowledge that 'Us' is impossible!

Then silence, guilty conscience

The certainty comes...I throw up into the pillow

[Chorus]

You look at me and say I should be able to read lips

The only one who ever believed in us was me

We just stay silent, 'cause I don't know what love is anymore

Did you know that someone had destroyed your ivory tower?

You look at me and I wish you were able to read lips,

'Cause my thoughts are shouting at you to take a rope and end it all

You think that we always get whatever we want in life

If we're simply always ready to give a fuck about it...

1. Lit: 'take a rope to yourself'.2. Lit.: 'make up fuck'.