Alkohol [English translation]

We've made the night a day again

I have my breakfast in the evening at eight

Thoughts run stickingly like chewing-gum

My head is heavy as lead

My knees are trembeling

Lalled oaths in red-blue light

Equilibrity in fourty per cent

Grey cells in a soft explosion

Vision of sunraise and sundown

What's up, what happened?

I've only given a massage to my nerves

Alcohol is your rescue man in case of emergency

Alcohol is your parachute and your rescue boat

Alcohol is the rope you're standing on

Alcohol, alcohol

The upper scene dreams of cocaine

And on the school toilet it smells like grass

The pharmacist takes valium and speed

And when it gets dark, they reach out for the glass

What's up, what happened?

I've only given a massage to my nerves

Alcohol is your rescue man in case of emergency

Alcohol is your parachute and your rescue boat

Alcohol is the rope you're standing on

Alcohol is the ship you're going down with

Alcohol is your rescue man in case of emergency

Alcohol is your parachute and your rescue boat

Alcohol is the dressing for the salad in your head

Alcohol, alcohol

• Artist:Herbert Grönemeyer
• Album:4630 Bochum (1984)