Leg Dein Ohr Auf Die Schiene Der Geschichte Lyrics in English Freundeskreis
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Leg Dein Ohr Auf Die Schiene Der Geschichte by Freundeskreis from German to English.
Intro
Many people recoil
When they hear 'history'
'History'
Intro
Four boring hours a week at school
Or something that happened long ago or always to somebody else
1973, year of birth
Important to me and historically too
Because it became clear then that the CIA was a wh*re
Chile, assassination, many dead, Allende died
Tragic, since he was the pillar of the Unidad Popular
C-I-A: Chile Is American
Victor Jara sang in Spanish, his voice admonishes you
Don't forget the dead, don't forget the dictatorship despots
1973
My mother pushed, gave birth and loves me
Carries me at her breast, nurses and rocks me
Meanwhile a mother with her son in Cambodia saw the shot too late
He'd be 23 like me now
You're just a part of it
So get to the heart of it
'Cause if you don't go
You won't know
You're just a part of it
So get to the heart of it
'Cause if you don't go
You're never ever, never ever gonna know
I was a first-grader around '80
You read about ABC weapons in the newspaper
A conflict ignites and Europe
Chosen as the battlefield for the power on the planet
Your grandpa maybe thought of back then
When he too took to the streets
'83, fear spreads, three years later Chernobyl
Seveso anyway, woe to whoever still wants nuclear power
Do you know the pictures of deformed babies from chemicals?
Do you know the mansions of the millionaires from the industry?
We were playing football outside when the first rain came
It's a coincidence that we were from a better neighborhood
I think of Kurdistan, Halabja, something breaks inside me
After half a century
German poison gas kills again
You're just a part of it
So get to the heart of it
'Cause if you don't go
You won't know
You're just a part of it
Get to the heart of it
'Cause if you don't go
You're never ever, never ever gonna know
We were 18, antifas with intifada scarves and army parkas
It was Andi who painted on the school wall at night
'No', meaning the intervention in Iraq
Which indeed many people paid with their lives
His father says Andi's a Croat betraying his country
Because he'd rather spray paint than practice killing with hand grenades
Only our hearts burned for the riots in US cities
Our sparklers glowed for asylum in chains of lights
And as if they thought it mattered
Among us the arsonists on the hunt for votes
I know what Tracy Chapman sang for Mandela
Talkin' 'bout the revolution
Put your ear on the track of history
You're just a part of it
So get to the heart of it
'Cause if you don't go
You won't know
You're just a part of it
So get to the heart of it
'Cause if you don't go
You're never ever, never ever gonna know
Bridge
Anything is connected to anything
Is connected to anything is connected to anything
'Cause you is all and all is you
Is you is all is all is you is you is all
Anything, anything, anything
You're just a part of it
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