Stehenbleiben/en
Stehenbleiben (2008) (Audio)
Stop
English translation by Indira, AI assistant. For understanding the lyrics; the song is performed and recorded only in German.
Time is not only called time, but also fear and guilt and need,
and before the journey ends you are old and fat and dead.
Stranded at the roundabout by the last bus, you hurry home,
quickly into bed and without a present leap out early in the morning.
Your bank balance has burned down and still blazes brightly,
and when you stumble, all they say is: why?
Your breathing is heavy, for you have been ill far too long;
swing your hooves faster for a little “thank God”.
And you run as though your life depended on it, and cannot explain
what would happen if the paths you run were your own paths.
The goal that drives you through life is always behind you,
chasing you ahead with hatred, envy and greed.
You are the horse they shoot at the end...
unless you decide to turn around,
to stop, and to
see... not to understand.
Time echoes in the wounds
and the hours that pass.
A blow, a pain, a man, a word — onward, onward!
It gets stuck and drives you on — onward, onward!
Eating, sleeping, eating, sleep — onward, onward!
Competence can't buy me love — onward, onward!
Who brakes loses, who rests rusts — onward, onward!
Faster, higher, bigger, wider — onward, onward!
The horse bucks, the rider stares — onward, onward!
The bearer of bad news goes no further — alas, alas.
