Allein machen sie dich ein [English translation]

Alone they'll keep you down

Throw you out, laugh at you

And when you try to do something about it

They'll lock you in the nearest slammer

And the only thing you can say about it

is: "That's some tough shit, man!"

With two, three, four,

It would be the same story1

They'd take out their batons

Smack us on the small of our backs good

And the only thing you can say about it

is: "That's some tough shit, man!"

A hundred or a thousand would slowly become a ringing in their ears

They'd surely say, "that's not much,"

But a thousand is nothing to laugh at 2

And what isn't may yet be

We can increase our numbers pretty fast

In the country we live,

there's just a few million.

When we're unified,

I think quite a different wind will be blowing.

Then they won't laugh anymore

Instead they'll hit the road

To the Bahamas, or Ticino,

The devil knows best where.

And you know that will happen

Once we organize (7x)

1. literally, "nothing different would also happen."2. literally, "it's not cardboard stem." idiom

• Artist:Ton Steine Scherben
• Album:Keine macht für niemand (1972)