Every morning at breakfast is a three minute egg and a run with the dog
Punctually to work, punctually finishing it
Every day the same route, without asking questions, why must it be so?
Every night the same faces in the same television shows
Never will we end, we said at one point,
It's no pleasure to be in a cage with rules like iron bars.
It was a tremendous outcry; we were against it and never for it.
And until something finally happened, we scribbled on every fucking house door:
Viva la revolution - it lives, the revolution!
Viva la revolution - there is a life before death!
We wanted to change this world and be the first to wear every hair cut,
because someone had said that that look was correct,
And then we were in the fight like a soldier from Babylon.
Everyone believed in something different, because no one understood anything
Viva la revolution - it lives, the revolution!
Viva la revolution - there is a life before death!
That old Marx was surely proud of us and our holy war,
Because it encompassed our freedom, thank God we won.
And today we can vote between SPD and CDU,
between RTL and ZDF, for Pepsi or Coke.
Viva la revolution - it lives, the revolution!
Viva la revolution - there is a life before death!
Viva la revolution - it lives, the revolution!
That "Viva la revolution" was, sadly, also just Opium.
