Michael X [English translation]

Part 1:

I still remember how you said: "I'll never be 27!"

How we sang the songs that were about loving the living

Drank tequila, boozed Jägermeister

Screamed to the moon: "Damnit, we're the coolest gang of the town!"

No dull day-job-grind is getting us down

We're like Kurt Cobain, Bon Scott, Pac and Jim

Even short-handed we never surrender

Rather dying standing up than living rich on our knees

On the beat, daily, everyone of us favourite person

You were our Bruce, we were your little E-Street-Band

Never had much money but were very thirsty everyday

Rewe-Market, red vine in a Tetra-Pak filched to go

Today I still remember it, as if it had just been yesterday

You always already left when the party was at its best

I just tell myself that it was your last one

Hope you arrived!

Hook:

And your mum keeps your room the way you left it

The moment where your will and your courage left you

The speakers sing it loudly

Your favourite song, but do you hear it? Say,

do you hear it?

Everytime the wind whistles and blows through the branches

We know you were there, just wanted to see that everything's alright

Then you paid us a brief visit

Sadly just a visit, hope you're alright, where you are

Part 2:

Now we're 27, soon old and grey

Nobody of us became a rockstar, nobody an astronaut

Like I said, it went downhill after the community service*

The teenie-fun was over, the perspectives went to hell

Just look at the city, how they're tearing everything down

Faces that are as white as chalk, heavily marked by time

Your Dad's little pub now is

The No Future, which was predicted on the backs of our jackets

Too much Korn and wine drive worries home

In the morning, a whole town drowns in piece-work

Still on the fourth floor, in white, "I love you"

But the stupid thing was...Sandra loved you, too!

Hook:

And your mum keeps your room the way you left it

The moment where your will and your courage left you

The speakers sing it loudly

Your favourite song, but do you hear it? Say,

do you hear it?

Everytime the wind whistles and blows through the branches

We know you were there, just wanted to see that everything's alright

Then you paid us a brief visit

Sadly just a visit, hope you're alright, where you are

Part 3:

It's really crazy, since you left us

Everyone goes seperate ways, smiles and nodds

Talks ill of the weather, a text message every now and then

I'm totally stressed at the moment, the music, too, is not going so well

I'm not jumping from bed to bed anymore, hard to believe, I know

Don't know if it's love, but whatever it is, I hope it stays

Keep your fingers crossed for me, it was nice to see you damnit

Happy Birthday, see you next year!

Hook 2x:

And your mum keeps your room the way you left it

The moment where your will and your courage left you

The speakers sing it loudly

Your favourite song, but do you hear it? Say,

do you hear it?

Everytime the wind whistles and blows through the branches

We know you were there, just wanted to see that everything's alright

Then you paid us a brief visit

Sadly just a visit, hope you're alright, where you are

Hope you're alright, where you are

Where you are

*community service as alternative to military service, until a few years ago, almost every young Geman man had to do this, when he was physically capable