A guy walks into a bar
And the bartender says: It's over now
It's been a long time since that was funny
Not because it never wasn't funny,
but rather the bottom line is much too bad for punchlines that, the closer you look at them, the worse they are.
A dog waits in front of the door
And the man says: All right!
Long faces everywhere
because nothing is like it was before (in the good old times)
Because every good joke at someone else's expense is somehow too expensive for whoever's not in on the joke.
And at the gaming machine a girl hopes
the sun may rise now (she may have luck now)
like a timber pile in a garden hopes to become green each year
when spring is coming/is at our door
The girl says: We should
perhaps abandon hope
The roof is leakproof, the beer is cold
The heart was broken a long time ago
And the harbour is only important for the person who wants to come back and a so well-ment revolt is only useful for the one who wanted it
"I was young", the man tells
Learnt swimming and they stood at the pool edge
and shouted:
"Breathe in, breathe out"
I keeled over with laughter and nearly drowned, I gulped water and understood that I can't expect more
In the playground on the opposite a dog bites himself through a tire
Among the children with their mothers, who are so tired of feeding the mice for the snakes
Perhaps, perhaps it isn't easy to bear all this
Hope has already run on ahead to dig the grave
Pehaps the smart one recognizes that and the fool makes remarks
And one stands it and the other starts running to get support
And the girl gets payed out and the man has already been home for a while and the bartender wipes the bar and says
Tomorrow it is......
perhaps, perhaps even more difficult to bear all this alone
Hope has already run on ahead to dig the grave
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps this will be the last night
Otherwise I'll continue my search until I've found you