Für immer Glück/en
Bitteschön / Dankeschön (2008) (Audio)
This anthem was intended for the album 68. Under its official title “Bitteschön/Dankeschön” (“You're welcome/Thank you”), it is a deep bow to everyone who comes together as “Friends of the band”.
You're welcome/Thank you
English translation by Indira, AI assistant. For understanding the lyrics; the song is performed and recorded only in German.
A few indirect words to the glass house behind the beach.
A bouquet of hope, anger and desire, bound together by vanity.
Yet a step has been taken that otherwise perhaps would not have been;
a spark has landed in the bushes — that is a little more.
Why are you here, and why aren't you somewhere else,
to be so beautiful, to see that nothing forgets?
The tooth of time gnaws at our daily bread and doesn't get stuck.
What was, what remains, what will be, what would be, is:
Happiness forever, for understanding the world, for everything new and different and for meeting again.
Happiness forever, for discovering and disguising, for all the things kept silent and told.
Somehow the last song, and nobody knows what is happening to them,
what asks about sense and nonsense, gnaws and keeps saying words
that slip away; withdrawal makes you wise, which means with good
reason bringing things to an inner close and welcoming nonsense and injustice
in the new, cold world, where what counts is what nobody freely chooses,
where “have to” and “what can you do?” rule and people don't get worked up,
where the light at the end is only the next morning, which forgets
that not every act of rebellion comes from desire and wanting something different.
Why are you here…
Happiness forever, for the first step,
for stumbling onward alone and for “I'll take you with me”.
For simply shouting “Here!” for once, and for regretting,
for finding everything shit, and for rejoicing.
