Der Mensch/en
Der Mensch (2008) (Audio)
This song is from the album 68.
The human being
English translation by Indira, AI assistant. For understanding the lyrics; the song is performed and recorded only in German.
Leave a little room to stand up, to go outside.
Administer something else into the ground; see more than the sea of “can” and “has”.
In the system of narrow brows that collide with what cannot be put into words,
they act as if it didn't exist, dismiss what promises more:
in the thicket of the unfathomable nature of a being that does not free itself
from the mania for turning everything into a function, which eats up time and doesn't get far,
humanity goes overboard and home dies in loneliness.
All calculated out, chaos lies there and says no new word.
The burden of the human being is inviolable: to be free and start shouting.
Unbelievably, they act as though the human being exists as a human being as a function,
and otherwise goes under, and otherwise goes under, and otherwise goes under…
Yet there is still a human being bringing all of this about.
There is still a being carrying a universe inside,
with all yesterday, all tomorrow, all maybe and all now.
Not just a thing that injures itself against its cage every day.
Measured, tested, subjected, checked, cared for, reassessed, abandoned, hidden.
A human being is a human being is a human being…
Say what you want, and say what you feel.
Say what you fear, and say what you love.
Ignite yourself and speak and take what you think;
give it away, and don't barter when you're giving.
They will screech about how things work,
what happens to you when something happens.
Say it, call it, shout it as if firing shots.
They will listen to you. Have to. (Fire!)
