Aliens [English translation]

[Part 1: Edgar Wasser]

Flying saucers are floating down towards Earth

It all began with these lights over the roofs of the town

"Mum, what's that?" - "An aeroplane, you know that, my dear!"

But then there more lights the later it got

"Something's not right..." - and they switched the TV on

Photos of tanks and soldiers with weapons in their hands

The experts said it was their last resort

In case they couldn't make any peaceful contact

Everyone woke up at the sound of the third explosion

Earsplitting noise - fireworks in the sky made it as bright as the day

Detonating missiles, flashing, silver pieces go up in flames and rain down below

At the beginning we thought we were the winners of the fight

Then the aliens came out of their burning wrecks and it went downhill

They enslaved mankind within 10 days

Uncountable piles of bodies lay in the streets

Armed shapes with beastly tentacles

Watched over the prisoners in holocaust-like campsites

And on the day of the great execution

All the aliens got together and they sang the song - and it went

[Hook: Mine]

I am like you, I'm just a little bit different

I don't understand you, I've only just landed

I am afraid of you, so I shall break you

Now, that'll do, now I must shoot!

I am like you, I'm just a little bit different

I don't understand you, I've only just landed

I am afraid of you, so I shall break you

Now, that'll do, now I must shoot!

[Part 2: Mine & Edgar Wasser]

What kind of welcome is that?

What are you planning on doing now?

I've only come here to chill out

Suddenly everywhere were lights

What's that loud thing? Who's speaking?

You look different to me

Guys, this is getting far too dangerous

You shoot me down and I'm only fighting back

It seems it's either you or me, yeah, then

I think I shall choose me (bang!)

[Part 3: Edgar Wasser]

If the aliens had never come

We would have taken it into our own hands

What am I on about? We'd already started a while ago

World war, massacres, genocides, mass murder

What a fucked up place, everywhere just hate and anger

"Mum, are those aeroplanes?" - "No, that's just a few drones."

Can you see the soldiers coming? Can you hear the tanks rolling?

Too many people live on this plant, man, the glass is full!

It's about time to have a clear out

I don't know if perhaps we should be thanking these aliens

I'm being serious, I'll say it like this

It's much better than before - being human was far too big a responsibility

Everything we did just led to violence and blood

The news agency fed the fear to us

BSE, HIV, NSU, intelligence service

Saddam Hussein, Bin Laden, Mohammed caricatures

Even though humans owned this kind of sense of sanity

It only led to the production of better weapons

Even stronger surveillance, even stricter passport controls

Wherever one looked, everything was governed by blanket fear

Citizens marched for the Western world under a swastika

And at the same time, a white cop shot a black youth

And then someone was tortured in Guantanamo

And ISIS fighters beheaded Christians in orange costumes

Our history only stems from slavery and war

We were too distant to view ourselves as a collective

And when Columbus arrived in America

He loaded his gun and said to the Indians (what?)

[Hook: Mine]

I am like you, I'm just a little bit different

I don't understand you, I've only just landed

I am afraid of you, so I shall break you

Now, that'll do, now I must shoot!

I am like you, I'm just a little bit different

I don't understand you, I've only just landed

I am afraid of you, so I shall break you

Now, that'll do, now I must shoot!

I am like you, I'm just a little bit different

I don't understand you, I've only just landed

I am afraid of you, so I shall break you

Now, that'll do, now I must shoot!

I am like you, I'm just a little bit different

I don't understand you, I've only just landed

I am afraid of you, so I shall break you

Now shoot!

• Artist:Mine