Die Traube

An eight year habit's hard to keep
Like the smiling face that you'll never meet
Faulted by the praise of fools
The beggar calls to you
Run too soon and far from here
Where the baboon hand shall come for you
Smile and trust the world
And you will never smile again

Ich bin ein simpler Mensch
Ich bin ein unsimpler Mensch
Mutterliebe Mutterkreuz
Lebenslust und Lebensfrust
I have always tried to be
The rhythm that I am

I embrace disposability
And it won't let go of me
In the electric garden chair
Of Eden's golden pale
So pour it down the pagan hatch
That loveless aisle will stay awhile
Feather frown and belly high
And religious through the land

Ich bin ein simpler Mensch
Ich bin ein unsimpler Mensch
Mutterliebe Mutterkreuz
Lebenslust und Lebensfrust

I have always tried to be
The rhythm that I am
But if you peel the skin away
You won't come back another day
And if you peel the skin away
You won't like what you see

Ich bin ein Untermensch
Ich bin ein Übermensch
Vaterliebe Vaterkreuz
Lebenslust und Lebensfrust
I have always tried to be
The rhythm that I am

Dragnet on the murder mile
The killer asked to stay awhile
I have always sought to change
The things I could not see
So ban the burkha and ban the bomb
It's the cry of every mother's son
Fatted by the praise of fools
The killer makes his mark

Ich bin ein simpler Mensch
Ich bin ein unsimpler Mensch
Mutterliebe Mutterkreuz
Lebenslust und Lebensfrust
I have always tried to be
The rhythm that I am
But if you peel the skin away
You can't come back another day
Und if you peel the skin away
Wir werden sehen das!