Jetzt oder nie [English translation]

Colours on the street

Water splashed into your face

Courage can be sung

Almost unconsciously in rage

Against violence

Thinking it over for many nights

Controlled for years

Given up for a thousand times

It's all wrong, all I want is to live

Now or never

Now or never again

Now or never

Just go ahead wash your cars

They will take photos of you

They will register you

You're destroying all your life

Why is it you, there are so many others

Fighting for a country

Where everyone can still speak out

Shout out whatever hurts him

If you always swallow you'll die from inside

Now or never

Now or never again

Now or never

Just go ahead wash your cars

It feels so good when your soul burns

And you run on the street

And you show them you're not fine

That your head is breaking

And you know, you've got to do something

We're censured in doses

People a regardlessly diffamed

Like a motionless herd of cows

We look up quickly and go on grasing comfortably

The TV talks us dead

Plants are dying of breathlessness

We're always waiting too long

Time's running out, we gotta get going

Now or never

Now or never again

Now or never

Just go ahead wash your cars

• Artist:Herbert Grönemeyer
• Album:4630 Bochum (1984)