Kaspar Hauser [English translation]
Kaspar Hauser [English translation]
He was helpless and ragged,
when they found him in Nürnberg.
He understood nothing and stayed silent –
his background: unknown.
People marveled at him;
his secret attracted them.
He was a bastard and a clown for them –
half-animal, half-man.
Kaspar Hauser is what they called him –
Kaspar Hauser, who didn't understand a word.
He carried a letter in his left hand,
but his secret stayed unknown.
They schooled him, bit by bit,
but they still had their suspicions:
"He knows more than he's telling us,
so watch yourself around him!"
Perhaps he was the son of a king,
who someone cheated out of his throne,
and who, just by chance, escaped,
and who they thought was dead.
But one day Kaspar Hauser came home
with a knife wound in his breast.
He died just like he always was – alone.
Why and how, no one knew.
Why and how, no one every knew.
Kaspar Hauser is what they called him –
Kaspar Hauser, who didn't understand a word.
He carried a letter in his left hand,
but his secret stayed unknown.
- Artist:Dschinghis Khan