Schöne neue Welt [English translation]

The world’s crashing but we’re having a Halli Galli* party

Everything's trashed but we’re skipping around like on Dalli Dalli**

Everyone says it: the climate is a huge catastrophe

Soon we’ll need just our bikinis and swimming shorts

I want to chomp more fast food; who really needs the rainforest?

As long as there's cash in my account and air for me to live.

Everyone's awesome, no-one needs to worry anymore

No-one gets ill anymore because we've already got all kinds of illnesses

And if the power station gets blown up, everyone will start to glow

(Chorus): Hey ... welcome, welcome

To our beautiful new world

From today nothing will stay the same

Everything will be turned upside down

Welcome, welcome

To our beautiful new world

No-one gives a crap about tomorrow

We’ll celebrate until everything falls to pieces

Cameras everywhere, what a huge show

No matter who's got my information, I have my own video

Thanks to the surveillance state I can sleep calmly now

Everyone’s got a chip in their head, lies in bed, counts sheep

Everyone’s happy, got their Botox-smile on their face

Fat sucked out and gone, nose also now spot-on

We can do so much with ourselves, for next to nothing even

Bigger chest, smaller belly – beautiful, all spick and span

Lined up rank and file, raise a cheer for our unblemished world

(Chorus)

We're feeling brilliant, what the newspaper says is all a lie

I protect the climate: my car runs on greenhouse gas

So much for oil running out! Those oil states just lie

If even the ducks are bathing in oil, there must be enough

The earth keeps on and on getting crowded and it's speeding up and up

No big deal, luckily we've got a second world in the basement

Why drive yourself crazy over it? It can be so easy

Let's just pass the time playing computer games

Welcome to jubilation, excitement, hilarity

(Chorus)

*Halli Gallli: fast-paced family card game

**Dalli Dali: 70s-80s German game show

• Artist:Culcha Candela
• Album:Schöne neue Welt (2009)