Ein neues Lied/en
“Ein neues Lied” is an attempt to put beginning anew into words and music. It was released on the album 68.
Ein neues Lied (2008) (Audio)
A new song, a better song
English translation by Indira, AI assistant. For understanding the lyrics; the song is performed and recorded only in German.
How much life will you dare to risk to claim your rights properly?
Many songs, no questions, for two thousand grey days.
You only want to carry your belongings across seven bridges,
and offer a celebrity an awkward “Great”.
Thug hits, mentally lean, beating down on the crowd,
also means reckoning without asking your host.
The endgame of all the phage plagues takes you by your professional collar,
until your wooden leg shakes painfully, because doubts have gnawed for years.
This is a new song, a different song,
that carries on and passes things on,
a new song — for you!
Sing along: as you leap, wax wings grow,
swing over blades, with new snares for birds behind you,
snares that caught a few of your old friends years ago.
Friends who then hung, because they took one step too far.
Wresting something new from yourself only seeks to divert you
from the road back to happiness; forcing the others back,
wringing them out, seems to work only for those who once were new,
and so, above all, all that remains is to sing the old stuff.
