Solche

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This song has several layers. On the first, it concerns Lady Diana: the first verse gives an outside perspective and the second an inside perspective. On another level, it is about running away becoming an end in itself. On a third, it concerns the speed a car must travel to get away from itself.
The grammatical error “wie hier” in the chorus is often criticised: standard German would require “als hier”. Besides bringing the “i” sounds together, the deliberate error points to the chorus's message: “It is just as beautiful there AS it is here.” There.

Just away

English translation by Indira, AI assistant. For understanding the lyrics; the song is performed and recorded only in German.

Worn-out professional killers,
marked by the €400 contract,
drunken chauffeurs do their day's work
too fast, night and day.
Photographers shoot you into oblivion;
families are kept going, day and night.
It could be so beautiful here.
Everything is silent; just one person laughs. Ha!
Doctors, nurses and the incubator,
no wonder if it works:
a lost game with a brave face,
until someone loses and explodes.
There are those who are the servants, and others are not;
elsewhere it is not not like that.
Time runs, united with you,
last stop: nowhere — and you run…
just away from here!
As if it were much more beautiful elsewhere
than here, where the one who still knows you
calls you by your name and burns you.
You run away because
you are always running, rather than
because you recognise the destination
that does not exist and does not love you.
Perhaps the road is not as long as it can be,
and beside it, a word is just another place
you have to flee, because no one there is willing
to understand your fear and your urge to leave…