Wenn der Vorhang fällt [English translation]

Crushed by hopelessness and suffering

most people are ready for the end.

Even most ways are often too far,

waiting like prisoners fro someone to free them

Everything grey and rough

but we think we're smart

we knew exactly we'd hurt ourselves

If you look around you'll realize quickly

that what we created's falling apart more and more

Wars everywhere, noone knows why

but everyone's looking away, feigns ignorance

keeps quiet

There are children who cry because their parents had to die

Hate and even more hate is what they inherit now

There are still too many people living in ruins

we look away too often instead of caring

Where will this lead to,

I mean, where's the point?

Can someone tell me, huh?

[Chorus]

Look behind the set when the curtain falls

when we don't like what we see

But man remains man and never was a hero

Say, who except us is keeping this world together?

Look behind the set when the curtain falls,

when I don't like what I see

But man remains man and never was a hero

Say, who except God is keeping this world together?

Feel the sharp blades, they're cutting my soul

Your song is as piercing as a thousand orders

It makes me angry and it makes me scream

Can't you hear the million children cry?

I ask myself every day, what's to become of our children?

Can the downfall still be prevented?

I see progression as regression,

Regression as lockstep

I'll never allow myself a mistake again

Our world is like an asylum we live in

I've been given a live without blessings

We always take more than we give

are only subordinates, rarely faithful

Politicians who're not telling us the truth

which is why we shouldn't even vote the wankers

Where will this lead to,

I mean, where's the point?

Can someone tell me, huh?

[Chorus]

We live in a world ruled by money

Dreams are things one keeps to oneself

Everyone fighting for themselves, no time to look around

Those who ant to assert themselves unfortunately can't be trusted

It's always might makes right

Did you notice, that drill's already starting when you're a child

Always putting it onto our children

That's how they up there get a free ticket

and can run nuclear riot

and practice for the real case above ground

and religious fanatics, be they muslims or christians

most of you are just fakes and extras

in a funeral procession only showing the dead

and without tolerance and felicity

Where will this lead to,

I mean, where's the point?

Can someone tell me, huh?

[Chorus]