Wann? [English translation]

You say you don't want to change the world

And I wonder how you would do that

Surely you're not a genie in a bottle

Neither are you a hole in nature

For after every step you take

And after every word you utter

And after every bite you take

The world is different from what it used to be.

REFRAIN:

When if not now

Where if not here

How when without love

Who if not us

You say you don't want to rescue the world

That's too big a feat to you

And the Rescuers of the World

Have been there before

Only most of them rather worsen it at best

And yet every new day questions me [?]

At which side I stand

And I simply don't manage to simply watch

Everything going downhill

REFRAIN

You say you don't want to change the world

But then others will do it for you

And the forest

You played in years before

Suddenly shows a stony face

And the meadow you're just lying in

Will be a motorway tomorrow

And whenever you return again

Everything starts all over again

REFRAIN

• Artist:Rio Reiser
• Album:Blinder Passagier (1987)