Menschenjunges [English translation]

Human baby, this is your planet

Here is your destination, little parcel

Friendly bundle, welcome in

May life be good to you here

Well, finally here you are ready in your cradle

You're all fresh and new and I'm crawling furtively

To you and only with a high self control I'm defeating

The curiosity to take you out there

In order to first look at you more closely

But now on your first day I satisfy myself By standing embarrassedly in front of your cradle

And by imagining, what your life might bring

May you get to know and experience everything

That ist worth experiencing and important in life

May there still be fields and trees and maybugs

When you're old enough to collect them

May there always be nails, mumbles, cords, bands

Glue, sherbet, colours and flintstones

Screwdrivers, isolation tape, plasticine and licorice

As a plenty store in your pockets

And one day the day will come when I will nervously

Sit over your homework they gave you

And I won't solve your maths exercises

For the essay I've written for you

You won't get punished if your very lucky

But in compensation for it I will

Make kites, draw pictures and fly double-deckers with you

And show you how to use solder and the piano

A few years later then after some bloody noses

After many tapes over wounded knees

After broken windows, dropped down vases

Mistaken pedagogical theories

After realizing that strict index fingers aren't useful

We'll do every rubbish together

Every grave nonsense and then we committ every foul

That up to then I have to forbid you strictly

May many things you're trying to achieve turn out good

Be happy if they turn out and don't preach

Try to bring your world a tiny bit forward

Try as much as possible to be good to your human brothers

Well, then I hope I'll be a good father

That you'll find friends who'll love you

And that you find joy in the great adventure here on earth

"Don't break your neck" - there's quite something ahead