Rot blüht der Mohn [English translation]

At night in the city

Somewhere in a dark pub

I met him

I good friend from way back when

He came up to me

For I wouldn't have recognized him myself

His face was pale

His eyes empty in their deep sockets

I didn't ask

He began to tell me all by himself

About his misery

And his dream of an unknown country

[Chorus:]

Red poppy blossoms

And the wind moves through a sea of flowers

Soon all that will remain

Is some white dust in plastic bags

Red poppy blossoms

Millions of tears nurturing it like dew

He told me:

"I wanted to play tag with destiny

Gave it a try

Just to feel the effect once

So blindly I ran

Into the fire that burns every dream to ashes"

"Today I realize

You don't place bets with the devil

You got to pay him in cash

Even children are enslaved by his poison

Who thinks about that

When you look at red Oriental fields?"

[Chorus]