Glad to see you back, @ainar-g! I missed your regular music submissions. :) p.s. Since the video had some really powerful imagery and was intriguing, I decided to look up translated lyrics: I...
Glad to see you back, @ainar-g! I missed your regular music submissions. :)
p.s. Since the video had some really powerful imagery and was intriguing, I decided to look up translated lyrics:
The boat is full
[Verse 1]
Not everything was bad back in the day
You can tell by the Autobahn
You'd all be sad too if Volkswagen didn't exist¹
Wolfsburg - a stroke of genius
Obviously that'll make you sometimes think back to the third
The thing with the Jews
You have to prove that first
They don't have to show you the shit from the history books
You won't be taken for an idiot
How smart of you²
[Pre-Chorus]
"The boat is full!" they shout on the ocean
"Yes, the boat is full!" you scream in front of the TV³
It's hard to get smart for those who believe more quickly
You've known that for a long time
That's why you don't trust any media in this shitty country
Asylum centre
Whoops, the house is on fire
Let's see who will be the quickest
The quickest to run out
They want to take you for an idiot
But you're not having it
[Chorus]
Worried citizen, yeah
I'm gonna give it to you too, in a minute⁴
When '33 sneaks its way back into 2019
When humanity and common sense are pushed aside by your anger⁵
Worried citizen, yeah, I'll give it to you too in a minute
[Verse 2]
To each his own
Yes, those are wise words⁶
Haven't they got bread to eat?
Why don't they eat gâteau?⁷
Nobody is honest here any more
Only Horst never lied to you
On his birthday they're all
All being deported⁸
You don't feel good in your body any more
And sometimes lonely, too
Yes, foreign in your own country
I don't feel good in my body any more
And sometimes lonely, too
Nobody was ever as foreign to me as you are
[Chorus]
Worried citizen⁹, yeah
I'm gonna give it to you too in a minute
On your knees when I show you my cock
Take it into your vernacular mouth
Blonde, stupid, blue and clean
Worried citizen, yeah, I'll give it to you too in a minute
I don't know how accurate that translation is, and some of the references are a bit lost on me (e.g. Wolfsburg and Horst?), but I dig the song and its clearly anti-fascist message. His voice also reminds me of Tom Waits.
edit: See below... there were footnotes that explain everything in detail.
Wolfsburg is the city, in which the HQ of Volkswagen is situated. “Der Horst” is probably Horst Seehofer, a Bavarian politician known for his open and vocal criticism of Merkel's “Wir Schaffen...
Wolfsburg is the city, in which the HQ of Volkswagen is situated.
“Der Horst” is probably Horst Seehofer, a Bavarian politician known for his open and vocal criticism of Merkel's “Wir Schaffen Das” policy.
🤦♂️ Oh, I'm an idiot. I was wondering what those superscript numbers were for but didn't investigate further at the time. I guess I should have, since they are for footnotes under the translation!...
🤦♂️ Oh, I'm an idiot. I was wondering what those superscript numbers were for but didn't investigate further at the time. I guess I should have, since they are for footnotes under the translation! :P
¹ Hitler is said to have built the first Autobahn in Germany, which many Neo-Nazis still lay out as one of the good things he did. Volkswagen was founded on Hitlers orders, calling for a car for the general populous, the "Volk".
² This segment is referring to the common rhetoric of current alt-right supporters, who claim the Third Reich had its good sides and either put the Holocaust into perspective or outright deny it completely. They also claim that the history books exaggerate on purpose to make Germans feel bad and - by extent - make them more obedient
³ "Das Boot ist voll!" is a common phrase used by anti-immigration campainers. Germany/Europe is the boat and by letting more immigrants and refugees into the country, the boat will sink. The pre-chorus makes the allusion between actual refugees at sea shouting because their boat is literally sinking and a ficticious German/Swiss/Austrian person infront of their TV claiming there is no more room in their country to support immigrants.
⁴ This is a German play on words. "Besorgt" translates to worried, but also the past tense of "besorgen", meaning to get someting or - colloquially - to give it to someone (sexually).
⁵ This part of the lyrics was changed in a later release from its original, so the message would become clearer and more sincere. '33 means 1933, the year the Nazis took power in Germany and made it a dictatorship.
⁶ "Jedem das Seine" was used as a slogan by the Nazis. It is written on the gates to the concentration camp in Buchenwald.
⁷ Referring to the famous "Let them eat cake" quote
⁸ Horst Seehofer is a German politician in the CSU, the Christian Social Union, a party only active in Bavaria but part of the nationwide CDU, the Christian Democratic Union. In a speech in the summer of 2018 he happily announced that on his 69th birthday there would be exactly 69 deportations of refugees, claming this was a funny coincidence.
⁹ "Besorgter Bürger" is a term that's become very popular in Germany and other German-speaking countries. It's a label for people who claim to be nothing but worried citizens, when they're actually following an alt-right agenda.
And it looks like you were right about Horst, though the notes don't make mention of Wolfsburg, but I assume you're correct there too.
A very strong new piece from Faber, that I haven't been able to get out of my head for a few days. Here is a DeepL translation of the first verse from German, to give you a taste of what the...
A very strong new piece from Faber, that I haven't been able to get out of my head for a few days. Here is a DeepL translation of the first verse from German, to give you a taste of what the lyrics mean.
Glad to see you back, @ainar-g! I missed your regular music submissions. :)
p.s. Since the video had some really powerful imagery and was intriguing, I decided to look up translated lyrics:
I don't know how accurate that translation is, and some of the references are a bit lost on me (e.g. Wolfsburg and Horst?), but I dig the song and its clearly anti-fascist message. His voice also reminds me of Tom Waits.
edit: See below... there were footnotes that explain everything in detail.
Wolfsburg is the city, in which the HQ of Volkswagen is situated.
“Der Horst” is probably Horst Seehofer, a Bavarian politician known for his open and vocal criticism of Merkel's “Wir Schaffen Das” policy.
🤦♂️ Oh, I'm an idiot. I was wondering what those superscript numbers were for but didn't investigate further at the time. I guess I should have, since they are for footnotes under the translation! :P
And it looks like you were right about Horst, though the notes don't make mention of Wolfsburg, but I assume you're correct there too.
A very strong new piece from Faber, that I haven't been able to get out of my head for a few days. Here is a DeepL translation of the first verse from German, to give you a taste of what the lyrics mean.