Freiheit [English translation]

Because this album is called "Freedom,"

many will ask me, what Freedom means to me.

What a great feeling.

What great expectations I have.

What great responsibility, what a great burden.

To describe what freedom means to me, what a great obstacle.

I can only contribute my small part.

Freedom cannot be contained, freedom must be exhaled.

Freedom, freedom

is the only thing that counts.

Freedom, freedom.

Freedom means to be how I am, freedom means to me to make mistakes like a child.

And when it must be, I just fall down.

But I stand up again, freedom means not to hesitate, but instead run.

If you know what you want, then do it, if not then do it anyway.

Freedom means free speech, free actions, free staying.

Walls that, out of fear of failure, were constructed--tear them down, have courage.

Freedom means also to disappoint, to fulfill yourself

instead of the expectations of other people.

Freedom means also to make decisions.

Freedom means the freedom to change your mind back and forth.

Freedom means sometimes it even makes sense,

that my freedom must end where another's freedom begins.

But freedom may never mean renouncing our rights

to live, to strive, and to talk about them freely.

With my lyrics I can only contribute my small part.

Freedom can not be dammed up, freedom must be exhaled.

Freedom, what a great word, I have heard, that you are boundless.

Despite that, many people don't know you, they fight for you

Many with speech, silence, and prayers, others with machetes

because other perspectives are missing

You are something different for everyone

So the more paradoxical it is, when we let politicians handle you

You are the Right, you are what everyone earns

No one should have to beg for you, nowhere, never

You are so intimate and personal, like the most inner wishes and dreams

but they come true only for a few people

Many believe maybe they can buy you

Others run ten-thousand kilometers through desert sand, because they believe in you

Emigrants leave their land behind only for you, in the hopes for you

and many don't find you anyway

Sometimes I sacrifice a part of you to others

and sometimes I must separate myself from you to discover more about you

because you are FREEDOM