Insel [English translation]

Now tell me again,

Who in the world started the rumor that there must be work?

That was surely someone on drugs.

As punishment, go barefoot back to bed and there you can then dream,

as elves help you clear your shit away.

Uh oh, and the alarm rings, it rings so,

And I rub my eyes and am cheery.

I may go to work, it's raining outside again,

Ah, my life is great.

I admire all the people, who live in big cities,

Where you're never completely alone, always one in a million.

And you collapse in the turmoil and the storm carries you away,

And you have a little trouble, but somehow you stay in step.

And you see advertising wherever you look,

Because advertising is the foundation of our economy.

And there is advertising for everything that you don't need,

With which you can drive a car, otherwise it smells and smokes.

Against it no pills help and not even preventive medicine,

I'm helpless, because my needs are growing

to the same degree as my income,

So that happiness stays always out of reach.

It's kinda like like the Tower of Babylon,

I have so many dreams - here is one of them:

An island in the middle of the sea, an island,

There life is not difficult,

No Stress, no work, no rush-hour.

I dream often of it, How beautiful it would be.

A beautiful dream - Back to reality,

Do you want an island? I'll tell you what's going on:

Two weeks in Ibiza, once a year,

Start saving already.

And father asks: Why do we never have money my child?

Because we don't posses the means.

And the surplus which we make makes others rich,

And they build themselves villas or buy something similar

An island in the middle of the sea, an island,

There life is not difficult,

Where I eat fresh fish everyday,

I dream often of it, How beautiful it would be.

Blue sea and white sand,

And high sky and wide beach.

And lots of water and little land,

And no Crocodiles but rather Coconuts.

An island in the middle of the sea, an island,

There life is not difficult,

My favorite beach would be always empty,

I dream often of it, How beautiful it would be.