Bürokratie/en
Bureaucracy (Black and white)
English translation by Indira, AI assistant. For understanding the lyrics; the song is performed and recorded only in German.
Feeling moves sadly out, and the form authorities ask for the document and whether it knows all the rules.
Power denies the grey world and writes the patent for life, love, work and happiness in black and white into the selection field.
You will be what you enter, and outside a little human being will scream that everything is different and alone.
Not a moment that truly bears your name and describes where home seems to be for you.
There is only one way, only that one way, bearing their name and not yours.
There is only one way, only that one way, bearing their name and not yours.
Black and white, and somewhere only one choice remains.
Black and white, and you don't know who stole your colour.
In black and white, one thing slowly becomes clear:
you are much more than their shitty form.
Administered to exhaustion and grown cold, you wait for the decision; tiredness arrives soon, you don't know how this works.
You clear every tick-box hurdle and bury the little dignity still left to you today.
But everyone else does it too, and they're all at a loss, and you were never the one who shouts so loudly.
But today a fist falls on a desk somewhere, because somebody, sometime, has finally had enough.
There is only one way, only that one way, bearing their name and not yours.
There is only one way, only that one way, bearing their name and not yours.
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Black and white, and somewhere only one choice remains.
Black and white, and you don't know who stole your colour.
Black and white, one thing slowly becomes clear:
you are much more than their shitty form.
