Kreuzzug [English translation]

If you insult me with mockery

the means are quickly justified1

My war rages in the streets

I needn't to worry about victory

The masses ought to comply with me

because I want to gild my empire

If I can make good money out of you

I shall let my benevolence prevail

I'm akin to God

Thus I declared myself the boss

After all I have to represent him on earth

The wealth I have requested

Who mistrusts is kept down

I will hold my ground

If I hear the faintest wisp of taunt

I will guide you to the scaffold

Crusade

We are on fire2

Crusade

We never get enough

Crusade

We made ourselves at home in the3

Crusade

Unbridled4, with the fury of (a) God

1. literally in German 'hallowed', what might be noteworthy because the song is about a crusade2. literally 'we've got steam in the boiler', see the next footnote3. a wordplay that doesn't work in English: Zug can also mean 'train' in German, and literally this line means 'We are sitting very comfortable in the (crusade-train)'4. lit.: 'unbraked', it still refers to the 'train' from the previous line