Did the banker take your house?
(English translation: Hannah Klang)
Did the banker take your villa
Did they also take your car?
Has poverty hit you,
like an arrow in the heart?
Has your life fallen apart?
Did your dream shatter to pieces?
Have you given them everything you had?
Did you get nothing back?
Do you have no one else to talk to
except for the speaking clock?
Has the one you loved left you
when the money ran up short?
Is there something you need to do?
Is there something you have to say?
Did they wake the wolf in you?
They woke the wolf in me!
Do you see how it spreads
the plague of greed?
How everyone takes what he can
how everyone wants more and more?
Do you see the managing directors
grabbing what they can
how they steal and deceive people
and then blame it on each other
Are you tired of paying
for the rich people’s robbery?
And the losses of the banks,
The loan sharks profits...
Is there something you need to do?
Is there something you have to say?
Did they wake the wolf in you?
They woke the wolf in me!
Did your mom die on the floor
in a hospital corridor?
Does your dad have to go to bed
at the home at two o'clock?
Do your kids go to a school
which stinks of urine
while the state gives billions
to the swindlers and the swines?
Is there something you need to do?
Is there something you have to say?
Did they wake the wolf in you?
They woke the wolf in me!
Do you hate those bastards
who purchase just to sell?
Do you want to cut them into pieces
and wrap them up in small parcels
Are you dreaming of heads
lying in a basket?
Would you put up a gallows in
the nearest largest square?
Do they refuse to listen
when you tell them what you know?
Are they calling you a liar
when you tell it as it is?
Is there something you need to do?
Is there something you have to say?
Did they wake the wolf in you?
They woke the wolf in me! |