Ein ehrenwertes Haus [English translation]

We've been living in this block of flats for a year now

And we're well-known around here

But guess what I've just found

Outside our door:

It's a letter from our neighbours

And it says that we have to move out!

They think that you and I are out of place

In this house of decent people

Because we've been living as a couple

And are still not married

They got together yesterday

And then they collected the ballots

And now all the tenants have written to us:

"Move out of here!

For a concubinage is out of place

In this house of decent people."

They all signed it

Just look at the long list!

That lady next door

Who can never keep her lies to herself

And that one who lives on the ground floor - every day she spies on everyone

And that guy who beats his daughter, he as well

Is speaking out for this house of decent people

And that fat lady who tends to spoil her dog

But keeps forgetting about her own child

That old guy who keeps telling us

What is off-limits in this house

And that one on the first floor

He's looking out the window all the time

And he reports every single parking offender

In front of this house of decent people

That grey-haired Don Juan

Every time you meet him in the lift he stares at you shamelessly

That widow who prevented

A black guy from moving in

And that lady from upstairs

She takes off her nightgown whenever the gasman comes to visit

They're all ashamed of us

For this is a house of decent people

Honestly

I can't take this hypocrisy any more!

Let's pack our stuff an move away

From this house of decent people