Hört hier eigentlich jemand zu? [English translation]

Where, my friend, should we lance the incision?1

Having no clue about surgeries, mind you

We're wearing us out, attacking each other

Whilst everybody knows, we won't be progressing like that

Raising our voices for the wrong reasons

Sometimes we should better keep it shut

Or we should shout it for the right reasons

And right reasons there are many:

Too much deceit

Too little love

There are too many cursing

Over too many wars

We have come to terms with

Far too many wounds

It's been going for too many rounds

So many rounds...

[Chorus:]

Is anybody even paying attention anymore?

I really do not think they are...

Nobody has to do with nothing2

Clinically clean, completely cold

Where are you all running to?

You don't even know who we are?

Apart from that, no matter where we are

We are brothers and sisters of our Father

Creation of a man's kind3

No one can say, I don't care about that

No one can say, leave me alone with this crap

No one can say, none of this concerns me

If you're feeling spoken to, I'm naming myself, you, everyone

We're trying to protect that which we're about to destroy

We are the people4 is what no one understood but everybody heard

Now one can say, what they want to say

So no one can say, I didn't know about any of that

Stop it, listen! Stop it, listen!

Is anybody even listening anymore?

[Chorus]

Lift up your hearts5 is what we learned

But why are we often so far from the meaning of these words?

Where will this lead us in a world

Where everything means nothing now

All that used to be so dear to us

It's back to professing

So we can see where our flaws lie

Because to them we were blind

1. "ansetzen" (a bit like "lancer" in French) can mean "to begin", "to pick up", or "to lance [with a knife]"2. double negative3. These two lines get more confusing the more I think about them. Jesus Christ called Himself "the Son/Child of Man", meaning He was of man's kind. Since according to Christian belief He is also God, mankind was created in the image of a man's kind. Therefore, we are simultaneously God's children and (chosen) siblings.4. "We are the people" was the crowd's call during the last months of the DDR until the fall of the Berlin Wall5. Famous qoute from the Christian Exsultet

• Artist:Söhne Mannheims
• Album:MannHeim (2017)