Der Spinner [English translation]

I walk on the platform and don't know

if I should drive away from here or what

hey, look, there's an express train coming and driving away

a railway copper shows up

I am holding your letter in my hand

there it says you feel dead like a rock

And that you're now looking for a forest

to build yourself a bed in the moss

your giant saxophone is there of course

and flutes, flutes are said to grow in the meadow

The old woman pays in coins

we are waiting for the next train

I ask the wrinkly where the forest is

she says:"My Udo has been dead for a long time now"

In my bag a sweet is sticking

we get on our train

At Wertheim* they had salamanders

I'll bring you one to the moss

When I got out in Hamburg

I run down the streets to the Elbe*

Down to the River

There I see you at the shore

I touch you and stuff, you hear nothing

you say you have to go to the other shore

the ferry is leaving next day

I thought you lived deep in the forest

I didn't know about other shores!

• Artist:Nina Hagen
• Album:Nina Hagen Band (1978)