Marionetten [English translation]

[Chorus:]

How long do you want to be marionettes?

Don't you see, you're just the stirrup holders

Don't you get, you'll soon stand all by yourselves

To your puppet masters you're merely conservators

And because you're twisting the facts again

We're going to intervene

Because you're taking advantage of the innocent

We're going to spread our protective shields

[Chorus]

Beaded for failure like pearls on a necklet

You're not one matryoshka further in this fight for retrieving your honor

You're blind to nylon strings on your members

When you're hacked on the Bundestag1 toilet, you're tweeting the size of your member

Simply embarrassing, and you call yourselves representatives of the people

When parts of your people are calling you out for high treason, traitors of the people

All will be forgiven if you stop being so one-sided2

Else the angry peasants with their pitchforks will be sure to make you more one-sighted

("Better seeing with the Second..."3)

[Cr7z:]

We're climbing up your roof, changing radio waves

If you won't open the door, a sudden error message window opens

From the stadium to the centre of a truth movement

The name of the Z-er4 lights up in neon signs in the rain

Together with the Sons5 I will show my colors

Your parliaments remind me strongly of puppet theater chests

You're walking on strings like marionettes

Until we sever you from Babylon's birth chord with our scissors sharp

You're so dull and lazy, it's appalling

Thinking you know it all better, and I guess it really won't get better

But we're thinking for you too, loving you as humans

You've taken kicking your people in the face to the limit

And this asset called pizzagate6 is still on your account as well

On closer inspection the horror does indeed increase

If I ever get my hands on someone like that, furs will fly

And hiding behind laws and clauses won't help you then either

[Chorus]

1. German Parliament building2. lit. "All will be forgiven if you show some insight." This is a pun. "Einsichtig sein" can either mean "to have/gain insight" ("to be insighted") or "to see on one eye" ("to be one-sighted")3. "Mit dem Zweiten sieht man besser" ("You see better with the Second") is the slogan of Germany's second television station ZDF, instated in 1963 by the governments of the 16 German federal states. During commercial breaks short clips are shown of celebrities covering their right eye and proclaiming: "Better seeing with the Second!"4. Cr7z calls himself the Z-er in reference to Xavier Naidoo's pseudonym "the Xer"5. Sons of Mannheim, the name of the band6. Conspiracy theory concerning organized pedophilia and ritualistic child abuse in government circles

• Artist:Söhne Mannheims
• Album:MannHeim (2017)