Manus Manum Lavat [English translation]

Driven by thoughts

That someone else thinks for me

I build myself a gallows

On which someone else hangs in my place

I live on thin wires

That someone else pulls

But I am a puppet

From whom the pupper master runs

You live for your wars

Because another dies in your place

You shine so brightly

because someone else does the dirty work,

Wash your hands in innocence

Because someone else is wiping them for you *

But my hands remain clean

Because no-one is greasing my palm

I eagerly bite the hand which feeds me

I go out of my mind at injustice

Who I am doesn't count any more

Only who I know

Who has washed which hand

One hand washes the other

My hand too, is guilty

As it writes this song for you

My finger points into the darkness

and at the things which are happening there

at lies and intrigue

corruption and wheeler-dealing

at the washed hands

but our hands are not among them

A handshake, a silent word

seals your pact

damned for all eternity

one hand washes the other

• Artist:Saltatio Mortis
• Album:Wer Wind Sät