Draussen hinterm Fenster [English translation]

Outside behind the window

A child is sitting and playing

Around on the motor of a Subaru.

A headwaiter is transferring

All bottles of brandy.

A tax investigator is begging for asylum.

From the open-air pool the ones are coming who aren't been drowned.

An owner of a subaru is hunting a child

And I don't ask you where you come (or: are coming) from.

You don't tell me where we are.

We are stuck here whatsoever happens,

confused, sluggish and lovestruck.

Outside behind the window

A child is sitting and stirring

Up the milk of human kindness (lit.: devote way of thinking)

A headwaiter feels

A pull in his knees (or: rheumatism).

One who bends iron bars takes the wrong door

From the mall the ones are coming who aren't arrested.

A strait-laced milkman is hunting a child

And I don't ask you where you come (or: are coming) from.

You don't tell me where we are.

We are stuck here whatsoever happens,

confused, sluggish and lovestruck.

Outside behind the window

A child is sitting and painting

On the picture of next year's polls. (lit: set of opinions)

A headwaiter is cashing

Out all customers (or: guests).

A drinker of brandy

is overturning the bar (or: counter).

From the parking area the ones are coming who are beyond remedy (lit: aren't savable)

An ex-pollster is hunting a child.

And I don't ask you where you come (or: are coming) from.

You don't tell me where we are.

We are stuck here whatsoever happens,

confused, sluggish and lovestruck.

• Artist:Element of Crime
• Album:Weisses Papier (1993)