We've seen flags
Kites and spaceships
We've seen photos in black and white
Italy winning the world cup
We've seen city squares
And ourselves as children getting older
We've seen the stars from a sidewalk
Falling and not getting hurt
And we've seen so many chances, horizons on walls
Before sleeping, tell me how you feel
In your eyes there's books to leaf through and the art of loving
Which you've never learned
Musicians and love thieves
Prisoners, students and ladies
All of it is for us
All of it is for us
Good sons of awful fathers
Blessed on the wrong days
All of it is for us
When looking deep into it
We're the history of the world
We're the history of the world
We've seen snow
Bells going crazy
We've hated September, TV news
And unfortunately we've hated being right
And we've seen so many stations, suitcases without tags
And houses you won't go back to
Long warm summers with cicadas and evenings to enjoy
Which you would never end
Musicians and love thieves
Prisoners, students and ladies
All of it is for us
All of it is for us
Good sons of awful fathers
Blessed on the wrong days
All of it is for us
When looking deep into it
We're the history of the world
We're the history of the world
And we've seen so many things
Can you remember them?
Something of our faces will be left
And there's poetry in a mistake
The beauty of trying...
Pacifists and great deceivers
Guests who stay outside
All of it is for us
All of it is for us
And quickly grown up girls
And anyone will never count up to ten
All of it is for us
When looking around
We're the history of the world
We're the history of the world