This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
In einer Welt, in der man nur noch lebt
Damit man täglich roboten geht
Ist die größte Aufregung, die es noch gibt
Das allabendliche Fernsehbild
Jeder Mensch lebt wie ein Uhrwerk
Wie ein Computer programmiert
Es gibt keinen, der sich dagegen wehrt
Nur ein paar Jugendliche sind frustriert
Wenn am Himmel die Sonne untergeht
Beginnt für die Droogs der Tag
In kleinen Banden sammeln sie sich
Gehen gemeinsam auf die Jagd
Hey, hier kommt Alex
Vorhang auf für seine Horrorschau
Hey, hier kommt Alex
Vorhang auf für ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau
Auf dem Kreuzzug gegen die Ordnung
Und die scheinbar heile Welt
Zelebrieren sie die Zerstörung
Gewalt und Brutalität
Erst wenn sie ihre Opfer leiden sehen
Spüren sie Befriedigung
Es gibt nichts mehr, was sie jetzt aufhält
In ihrer gnadenlosen Wut
Hey, hier kommt Alex
Vorhang auf für seine Horrorschau
Hey, hier kommt Alex
Vorhang auf für ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau
Zwanzig gegen einen
Bis das Blut zum Vorschein kommt
Ob mit Stöcken oder Steinen
Irgendwann platzt jeder Kopf
Das nächste Opfer ist schon dran
Wenn ihr den lieben Gott noch fragt
„Warum hast du nichts getan, nichts getan?“
Hey, hier kommt Alex
Vorhang auf für seine Horrorschau
Hey, hier kommt Alex
Vorhang auf für ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau
Hey, hey, hey, hier kommt Alex
Vorhang auf für seine Horrorschau
Damit man täglich roboten geht
Ist die größte Aufregung, die es noch gibt
Das allabendliche Fernsehbild
Jeder Mensch lebt wie ein Uhrwerk
Wie ein Computer programmiert
Es gibt keinen, der sich dagegen wehrt
Nur ein paar Jugendliche sind frustriert
Wenn am Himmel die Sonne untergeht
Beginnt für die Droogs der Tag
In kleinen Banden sammeln sie sich
Gehen gemeinsam auf die Jagd
Hey, hier kommt Alex
Vorhang auf für seine Horrorschau
Hey, hier kommt Alex
Vorhang auf für ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau
Auf dem Kreuzzug gegen die Ordnung
Und die scheinbar heile Welt
Zelebrieren sie die Zerstörung
Gewalt und Brutalität
Erst wenn sie ihre Opfer leiden sehen
Spüren sie Befriedigung
Es gibt nichts mehr, was sie jetzt aufhält
In ihrer gnadenlosen Wut
Hey, hier kommt Alex
Vorhang auf für seine Horrorschau
Hey, hier kommt Alex
Vorhang auf für ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau
Zwanzig gegen einen
Bis das Blut zum Vorschein kommt
Ob mit Stöcken oder Steinen
Irgendwann platzt jeder Kopf
Das nächste Opfer ist schon dran
Wenn ihr den lieben Gott noch fragt
„Warum hast du nichts getan, nichts getan?“
Hey, hier kommt Alex
Vorhang auf für seine Horrorschau
Hey, hier kommt Alex
Vorhang auf für ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau
Hey, hey, hey, hier kommt Alex
Vorhang auf für seine Horrorschau
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Here's an attempt at a slightly more poetic, but far less exact English translation of the song.
In a world where the point of living Is to go roboting all your life The only excitement that is given Comes from the TV's lies.
Like in a clockwork, every word Is programmed, computerlike The only protest that is ever heard Is when the youths come strike.
When in the sky the sun has sunk The day starts for the Droogs They assemble and go out to hunt Marching in small groups.
Hey! Here comes Alex Curtain up - for his Horrorshow Hey! Here comes Alex Curtain up - for a little Horrorshow
Crusading against society And an establishment out of line Their religion is brutality And violence is divine.
Satisfaction is only down the path Of making victims hurt Nothing stops their endless wrath Nothing on this Earth.
Hey! Here comes Alex Curtain up - for his Horrorshow Hey! Here comes Alex Curtain up - for a little Horrorshow
Twenty versus one Until blood is spilt their way Perhaps by stick or else by stone Every head must burst some day.
The next victim is already slain While you're still calling out Were our prayers all in vain To turn this Earth around?
Hey! Here comes Alex Curtain up - for his Horrorshow Hey! Here comes Alex Curtain up - for a little Horrorshow
Hey hey hey! Here comes Alex Curtain up - for a little Horrorshow!
Alex is an allusion to the "Alex" from Clockwork Orange. You can see it on some verbs(roboten) and other words which apear in the movie(Droogs). Maybe someone can translate it, my english isn't that far.
though its kinda old, its still the fuking best song of the band! Its just great!
Untelix is right, I found someone that managed to give a loose translation of the lyrics, and it is essentially about the movie "A Clockwork Orange"
Ich denke, es beschreibt ein mögliches Zukunftsszenario oder gar manche Aspekte der Gegenwart... aber die Vergleiche zu Clockwork Orange sind auch nicht schlecht
real horrorshow!
für die deutschen: echt horrorschau
you have to know a bit of russian for the translation because some words are partially russian in 'a clockwork orange'. droogs may be such one.
In a world where you only live to go roboting day for day the greatest excitement is the everyday-eve's tv-screen
Everyone lives like a Clockwork programmed like a computer There's no-one protesting against Only some teens are frustrated
When Sun sets at the Horizon the Day for the Droogs begins In small Gangs they gather going hunting together
HEY! Here comes Alex! Curtains Up for his Horrorshow HEY! Here comes Alex! Curtains Up for a little bit Horrorshow
On their Crusade against Law and Order and the assumingly correct world they celebrate Destruction Violence and Brutality
Only when they see their Victims suffer they feel satisfaction there's nothing what could stop them now in their endless rage
HEY! Here comes Alex! Curtains up for his Horroshow HEY! Here comes Alex! Curtains up for a little bit Horrorshow
Twenty against one till the blood comes up. no matter if with sticks or stones, every head bursts at a point.
the next victim's allready to come when you still ask the beloved god why have you done nothing against? ANYTHING AGAINST??!?
HEY! Here comes Alex! Curtains up for his Horroshow HEY! Here comes Alex! Curtains up for a little bit Horrorshow
HEY! Here comes Alex! Curtains up for a little bit Horrorshow
so long for a short translation.... hope you get the sense out of it ;)
well of course there is the russian part but that is only because anthony burgess(author of a Clockwork orange, which is a great book) is russian and half the book is in russian very hard to read for us non-russians
I have to say your translations are very well done but why don't you just stikck wit the english version Return of alex from Die toten hosen on the Love Peace & Money CD
@indeed good reason is because the song lyrics are quite different to what is in each song. so a translation of the original German is good