Ein ehrenwertes Haus [English translation]

We've been living in this tenement for one year

and we are well-known.

But imagine what I just

found under our front door:

It's a letter from our neighbors,

It says that we have to move out!

They think you and I don't fit

in this honorable house.

Because we live together as a couple

and are still without a marriage certificate.

They had a meeting yesterday

And then voted

And the community of all tenants now writes:

"Move out of here!

Because a wild marriage doesn't fit

in this honorable home."

Everyone signed;

Now look at the long list:

The woman next door

who can't keep her lies to herself.

And the woman from the ground floor, every day, spying on everybody every day,

also this guy who beats his daughter

speaks for this honorable home.

And then the fat woman that spoils the dog

but forgets her own kid.

The old man who's always telling us

what's prohibited in this house.

And the guy from the first floor

looking outside of the window all the time

reporting everybody (to the police) who parks in the wrong spot

in front of this honorable home.

The grey Don Juan

always staring at you shamelessly in the elevator.

The widow who prevented

that a black man can move in.

And the woman from above, when the gasman comes,

she takes off her dressing gown;

They all are ashamed of us

because this is, of course, an honorable house.

If you ask me

I can't take this hyprocrisy any longer.

We'll pack our belongings and move away

out of this honorable home.

• Artist:Udo Jürgens