Schlaf schön/en
Schlaflied (2008) (Audio)
Lullaby
English translation by Indira, AI assistant. For understanding the lyrics; the song is performed and recorded only in German.
Are you perhaps happy if all of this stays as it is,
if tomorrow you are in the grave and nobody misses you?
Throw sticks between the legs of the others who want
or ought to change it, or roll over your feet.
Nobody is so brilliant that they can simply talk
what others do into meaninglessness, or only ever mock it.
You once used to try as well, and failed;
today you are only clever, and perhaps rarely tipsy.
Yet once, back then,
you showed a different world.
But with your tiredness
you messed up far too much.
For now you are out,
not political, rather peaceful,
frighteningly cute.
Now you are out,
you want to go, I can understand:
sleep well!
Sleep well!
Sleep well!
Sleep well!
Your words are personal, and unforgiving towards others,
yet you speak of yourself and not of us, because unusually
great things can ultimately only be done together.
Just do not throw other people's heads into the wicked lion's jaws.
You were so beautiful and interesting. What happened?
Today you are burned out and clean-shaven every day.
Surely the world in which you are right ought to be changed,
or have you arrived where you want nothing to change?
Yet once, back then,
you missed a different world.
Why are you now the one
who rails at those who want it?
