Konx om pax [English translation]

[Verse 1]

Just now I believed

Mankind was noble

Enough so when peace

Could be had around

But it yells for war

Extreme cruelty

Nor does it bring

A hint of peace

[Verse 2]

I wade in the swamp of reason

The landfill of wisdom

Maybe once I would learn

To recognize my blindness

Without protection

It would hand over my heart

For each one, which

Thirsts blood from the heart

[Chorus]

In their tall glass houses

Men of power nod pondering

The inevitability which leads

A beautiful hand to good

We run away from here

My love briefly stays to see

Now as a salt statue on the edge of the desert

Her brittle figure is smouldering

[Verse 3]

I only want to write

Grow alongside my love

Do my work well

Learn from my mistakes

Now I count days

And measure nights because

How I learn to understand

The shades of hate

[Verse 4]

All good, children

Daddy is leaving for war

To serve a machine

Which reaps all from its path

Power topples power

Weak eat each other

A tribe of lackeys

Rises to its glory

[Verse 5]

Evening, we hold

Each other's hands

Without saying anything

Words have burned out

In the heights above

Black crows fly

In the ruins they find

Our ashes

[Chorus]

In their tall glass houses

Men of power nod pondering

The inevitability which leads

A beautiful hand to good

We run away from here

My love briefly stays to see

Now as a salt statue on the edge of the desert

Her brittle figure is smouldering

In their tall glass houses

Men of power nod pondering

The inevitability which leads

A beautiful hand to good

We run away from here

My love briefly stays to see

Now as a salt statue on the edge of the desert

Her brittle figure is smouldering