Hier Vertrok De Trein [English translation]

Here the train departed

Here on this platform

Here the people stood

With fear in their eyes

As their journey started

A man with a woman

A woman with a child

A child with a future

People

Hunted like animals

There was the east

That's where they all went

Further than a train can travel

Towards heaven

Right through hell

Here was their life

There was their death

For every bastard and each gipsy

For every homosexual

Every Jew

And I cannot understand it

I just can't fathom it

I cannot understand it

I just can't fathom it

They have written too much about it

And of course, it's way too long ago now

So we can now, we can now forget it

But if we will forget it

Then it will start again

But if we will forget it

Then it will start again

Here the train departed

Here on this platform

Here the people stood

As their journey started