Telos/en
Telos
English translation by Indira, AI assistant. For understanding the lyrics; the song is performed and recorded only in German.
Where to, where to? Where is the meaning? In the goal, the game, the purpose gone,
gone where the others go to watch and stand alongside.
Much time passes, a goal reached, then aimless until the head gives way;
inclined, messed up, a dark place, tomorrow strikes grey with pleasure and murder.
Only away, only away, just imagine it: a paintbrush handle points you to the goal.
The gold, the gold, that does not favour you remains the goal; the main thing is rolling cheers.
Violence wanted, function fiction, the son of man comes to the throne;
felt, aimed, wasted, wounded; understood was called spirit yesterday.
Air-pressure gauge, leaf vacuum, juicer, cordless screwdriver,
cola bottle, anti-personnel mine — tape machine.
Purpose must go, multipurpose must come:
telos, telos, nevermore.
Purpose must go, multipurpose must come:
telos, telos, nevermore.
Purpose must go, multipurpose must come:
telos, telos, nevermore.
Purpose must go, multipurpose must come:
telos, telos, nevermore.
A word withers here and there and greens, mined, in a minor chord;
what goes forward blows and stands, reads backward and waters flowers,
and sneezes three times, the beautiful beast. What greets you has long been spoiled.
Life is sweetened without the urge from what went, a walk without compulsion.
The slope falls away, snip-snap, the defences roll on as though there were no tomorrow.
However much it hurts, eradicates and jokes, everything is beautiful-beautiful to behold.
If the world pleases distorted, it sours God, and the money is switched off;
happiness back, a slight kink, and sometimes it goes like this:
wrecking ball, balaclava, art history, garden arbour,
apple spritzer, gentleman rider, snouter.
