Kinder [English translation]

Did you catch that the people nowadays don't dare say

What they really want to say but only what they may?

Children, there is something amiss

And did you catch that the people are all acting out a play

Whereas they never play like children, not even trying it that way?

Children, there is something amiss

[Chorus:]

Children

That's not what you deserved

Children

Can this be reversed?

Children

Will you still love us when you're grown?

Children

Something has gone wrong

Did you realise that they are selling lies for the truth?

'Cause they don't have a choice, it's just business as usge1

Children, there is something amiss

'Cause they're building ammunition, landmines, rockets and the arms

That are meant to abolish countries formerly unharmed

Children, there is something amiss

[Chorus]

Even though you're still small, one day you will have grown up

Then the debts we have amounted will grow up things beyond grasp

Children, there is something amiss

That's why we have to break what brought so many men of every age

Into captivity or bondage, or even right into slave wage!

Children...

[Chorus]

1. "usge" (prononunced like "rouge") = short for "usual"