Be alert
A torn election poster on the wet grass,
they smirk at me, the old soggy phrases.
The faces of old man overinflated youthful:
Who praise the Middle Ages as the progress for you/us.
And I think to myself, every step to this promised bliss,
is a step toward endless yesterday [past], a step backwards.
How they urge the people prudence and sacrifice,
they call them people, but mean subservient.
All the gluing and fawning [smarm]is no longer bearable,
when you learn to translate what they are really saying:
The Minister takes the Bishop's arm whispering:
You hold them stupid - I hold them poor!
Be alert,
Memorize those words very well!
Be alert,
don't fall into their trap! Mind you, to use your freedom
because freedom wears off, if you do not use it!
Be alert,
Remember those faces very well!
Be alert,
Keep your courage.
Be alert
and be on your guard!
You turn on the television, they whine for good old values.
Their good old values are almost always the wrong ones.
And those who pedal so pertly in the talkshow,
are the ones who trample on all values with their feet:
The media-mogul and the newspaper-czar,
the worst tups as gardeners, how wonderful!
They call for the crucifix, for customs and decency,
but their message is nothing but ass and tits.
Barbarization, stultification, violence are their commandments,
their gods are the numbers of prints and ratings.
They bend the truth and twist the law/justice:
So many good old values, really [???], that makes me really sick!
Be alert,
Memorize those words very well!
Be alert,
don't fall into their trap! Mind you, to use your freedom
because freedom wears off, if you do not use it!
Be alert,
Remember those faces very well!
Be alert,
Keep your courage.
Be alert
and be on your guard!
A huge trade cycle for Pied Pipers,
for freeloaders and bribe recipients,
an age for self-servers and wheeler-dealers:
Hypocrisy, feigning and trading for posts [status].
And they are all highly respected and highly recognized,
and after the worst [of those people] roads and airfields are named.
They capture the chicken thief, the arms traffickers are left alone,
no pipe of pot, but a poison gas factory you can buy.
Poisen the air, contaminate the lands with radiation, create the greates damage with impunity,
but don't get caught in sit-ins!
The Green-guy will get caught, but the environmental-pig enjoys credid,
and the police always have to beat up the wrong people.
Be alert,
Memorize those words very well!
Be alert,
don't fall into their trap! Mind you, to use your freedom
because freedom wears off, if you do not use it!
Be alert,
Remember those faces very well!
Be alert,
Keep your courage.
Be alert
and be on your guard!
We have a constitution that is supposed to guarantee the rule of law.
But how can it help [us] when they manipulate it at a whim and wish:
Those agitators who always jabber about a peace mission
and already are busily rattling under the table with the sword.
The old sparkle in their eyes at the moment of the great Tattoo [Zapfenstreich]:
About face, forward march in lockstep, a song and [back] home to the [Nazi] Reich.
„Never again should violence come out of this country!“
„We need to show our stands [protect values], we can/should not stand aside!“
„Purely humanitarian of course and without bloodshed!“
„Combat missions are now [all of a sudden] no longer quite so ruled out.“
They drag us ever deeper in, piece by piece,
And since this morning at five o'clock, we are shooting back again!
Be alert,
Memorize those words very well!
Be alert,
don't fall into their trap! Mind you, to use your freedom
because freedom wears off, if you do not use it!
Be alert,
Remember those faces very well!
Be alert,
Keep your courage.
Be alert
and be on your guard!
I long for people who do not deceive me,
for people that do not, on every official speech, lie so completely.
And spare me [from] the phony honest [people]:
The phony honest people, the truly dangerous ones!
I long for a piece of truthfulness,
after a bit of backbone in this warped era.
But [if you] tell the truth you will soon have nothing to laugh anymore:
They will ruin you, execute and silenced you,
blackmail, bribe and try to buy you.
If you tell the truth, keep the engine [of your car] running outside,
then they say it [the truth] loud and fast, since the saying teaches:
Those who speak the truth, need a damn fast horse.
Be alert,
Memorize those words very well!
Be alert,
don't fall into their trap! Mind you, to use your freedom
because freedom wears off, if you do not use it!
Be alert,
Remember those faces very well!
Be alert,
Keep your courage.
Be alert
and be on your guard!