Raketenstart [English translation]

We have enough kerosene for the rocket launch

One last check, to be safe

The equipment’s right, all set

We’re ready for take-off

We’ve been in Baikonur for days

Holding out in quarantine

The experts go over the plans one last time

We saw the catastrophe coming

And commented on the grasp for power with a lot of wit

Thought that the system would regulate itself

Of course, only the richest and most ruthless have made it this far

The elite, or those who think they are, travelled here and snatched up

What organic material and kerosene the planet yielded

To cultivate crops in nutrient solutions for the next thousand years

We saw the catastrophe coming

Like our great-great-great-grandparents already did

The same idiots, the same problem - new generation

While the countdown is running, there are riots outside

A fight is raging on the base

We are undoubtedly privileged on this side of the bulletproof glass

The spaceship takes off, a few miserable ones desperately cling to its outside

Not two of every kind - no, we’re just saving ourselves

And maybe not even that, what a bad plan!

We saw the catastrophe coming

We saw the catastrophe coming

We saw the catastrophe coming

We saw the catastrophe coming

We saw the catastrophe coming

Like our great-great-great-grandparents already did

The same idiots, the same problem - new generation