Zeit [English translation]

[Verse 1: Kontra K]

It's quite funny, how much you can put up with without dying,

How much pain you can swallow up without giving up the fight,

How so many frustration makes us people grow harder,

And how many words will therefore never be said

The cinema of our mind is too big, makes us see crazy pictures

Paranoia is a rat, it gnaws away at our peace of mind

And despite all that we still always stand back up again

When we've been lying in the dirt

People need the reproaches,

Or else we'd fly away from arrogance

Friends come and go like the small celebrities on Viva,

Because you can only swim on top of a wave

For the duration of a song

Our generation doesn't have any depth

We are survival artists, and I'm painting the beat right now

All of us little Peter Pans, we're still learning to fly

Even when that means that before we can live,

We live a whole life on the brink of death

But we've got potential, even if not much - Every time we bleed, it means that we live every tear that we feel

[Chorus: Rico] (x2)

We don't have any time, 'cause the clock's hands are running

You end up losing too much when you know the names

And feelings are just weak points leading to jealousy

But we manage, it still goes on somehow

[Verse 2: Kontra K]

Not a single thought left in here,

And I already feel how my mind is like a photo album

Through filters, it tears up the old pictures

How naive to think that it couldn't get any worse

God will show you right away with its heel1

That it does get worse

Friends simply die away,

Just like plants when the winter comes

The summer sun cannot fill the hole at the back of my head

Every single evil act is real, I can still see it

And karma makes sure

That all the bad things have done come back to me

[Bridge: Rico] (x2)

The façade is so pretty, so white on the outside

But on the inside it's deep, deep black and unclean

Sometime, somewhere, our heart went missing

But somehow, something leads us back

Onto the right path

[Chorus: Rico] (x2)

1. Not sure about this line.