Leben [English translation]

How ever could you do this?

Didn’t you feel anything?

What took away all your scruples, all your shame?

You obeyed without conscience

You commanded murder, you executed

The gas was quiet, only the screams were loud

The pictures stun us

Pits full of dead bodies

Full of unfulfilled hopes

You, as their judge or hangman,

Robbed them of their future

How can a human become a monster?

Kick the highest good with his feet

To live – more than just to survive

To live – that’s our origin and goal

To live – as a small part of the big whole

To be worth living

In the name of politics

In the name of a religion

Contempt of human life will lead us into wars

And insanity triumphs

When a human life has no purpose but to be sacrificed

We had been spared all this - until now

We only know the pictures [= we weren't alive in 1945]

That is our one chance

If we understand, if we want to learn

How you and me and we [can live] together

To live – more than just to survive

To live – that’s our origin and goal

To live – as a small part of the big whole

To be worth living

• Artist:Pur
• Album:PUR Live Die Zweite