Ernten, was wir säen [English translation]

[Michi Beck:]

Everyone, everyone asks, each one, each one wants to know:

“Why, why do you all have it so good and why, why do I have it so shitty?

Do you all have, do you all have something that, that I don't have?

Will I, will I also get it? Am I, am I even at the start?”

“I’m always, always unlucky! Everything, everything is unfair!

What, what it really is: almost, almost always a scam!

If only, if only I were him! If only, if only I had her!

My life, life is empty, simply mono-, monotony.”

“I finally want, finally want more! I have, I have surely earned it!

Would that not, would that not be fair? Now, now or never!

How is it, how is it that I’m always the idiot?

And why, why do others have millions and not me?”

“Can’t I, can’t I make it to the very, very top, too?

I believe, I believe I am going to give up the longer, longer I run.

I would like, would like to so much, how can, how can I learn it?

Will someone please, please explain this to me, me?”

Refrain:

No one, no one can tell you, tell you,

No one, no one knows the answer, the answer to all, all

your, your questions, questions,

You must, you must only understand, understand,

We reap, reap what we, what we sow.

[Thomas D.:]

The people, people are going off, they're completely flipping, flipping out!

As of today, today in the charts, we're sending, sending them up!

It’s going through the roof, roof, the band, the band is in a good mood,

The press, press sees it too and applauds, applauds.

The boys are young and not dumb and are writing, writing the hit

They’re raking, raking in money and now it’s compounding, compounding,

With this, with this principle, with huge, huge profits:

Just don’t check whether you’re staying, staying on the path, path.

Only one, one of them, and no one, no one noticed,

How easy, easy it happens: That you're rich and frustrated.

So sweet the suites are, too, you’re at home and yet you’re not,

Only some-, somewhere inside, how everyone, everyone is alone!

Separated for so long, long you break off, break off contact

You all, you all were once in the band and had it, had it made!

But unfortunately, unfortunately no one who envied you let you know:

How does it go on, on, have you already achieved everything?

Refrain:

No one, no one can tell you, tell you,

No one, no one knows the answer, the answer to all, all

your, your questions, questions,

You must, you must only understand, understand,

We reap, reap what we, what we sow.

[Smudo:]

Yes, yes, yaw, yaw! I'm a hell of a man!

I'm walkin', walkin' down the street and hear you, hear you saying, "Damn!

I wanna, I wanna be like Smudo, too,

makin', makin' rap records, saying, saying, ‘Fuck you!’”

Is it all, is it all just for show? Just a phallic, phallic symbol?

It’s all just lies and lies and deception and deception and everything is that way!

Just status quo vadis?”1”

The truth is, it's hardly clear to anyone,

That everyone, everyone is on the path and no one, no one has made it!

Platinum records on the wall – (what comes then?)

You’ve got billions in the bank – (what comes then?)

House with a garden on the beach – (what comes then?)

Thousands waiting in anticipation – (what comes then?)

Refrain: (2x)

No one, no one can tell you, tell you,

No one, no one knows the answer, the answer to all, all

your, your questions, questions,

You must, you must only understand, understand,

We reap, reap what we, what we sow.

”1”. This is combination of two Latin phrases: ‘status quo’ refers to ‘the state of things’ and ‘quo vadis’ asks, “Where are you going?” So combining the two in ths context means something like, “Are you simply going the same way we’ve been going?”