Roboterbeine [English translation]

The night is a catapult

It shoots us into the cities

Smoke from exhausts

It’s snowing on the privy

Hey – somebody

Hey, hey, somewhere

Show me to the door

I don’t want this anymore

Young mothers rock

Their babies who don’t want to sleep

No one says a kind word ¹

Though hip-hop girl weeps

Hey – somebody

Hey, hey somewhere

Loves you just the way you are

You are, you are

And I then run

Against my emotion

And I then run

Like I’m on robot legs

And I only feel

What doesn’t affect me

Simply keep me

On my robot legs

On my robot legs –

and cannot shed tears

The day is a catapult

It shoots your dreams down

I set out

Into defiant vicinities

I robot so hard

Robot ‘til a coronary

I rush past every person

I rush through ‘til the mausoleum

A little boy wails

In front of a playground carousel

Open the synapses and I think:

Oh, you little brat

Hey – someone

Hey, hey somewhere

Loves you just the way you are

You are, you are

And then I run

Against my emotion

And then I run

Like I’m on robot legs

And I only feel

What doesn’t affect me

Simply keep me

On my robot legs

On my robot legs –

and cannot shed tears

And I then run

Against my emotion

And I then run

Like I’m on robot legs

And I only feel

What doesn’t affect me

Simply keep me

On my robot legs

On my robot legs

and cannot shed tears