Утопия [Utopia] [English translation]

A period of collapse, borders in dotted lines

Bars on the windows, the flats - are prisons

We grew up in an age of metal doors

Hiding from people, like animals

Father against son, brother against brother

A price paid in blood for welfare

Mother teaching daughter about sin and lewdness

Despair, fear, malice all around

Donkeys kick a dead lion

Ambassadors come bearing gifts to a fake god

Everything can be bought, everything is for sale

Less and less light remains in the soul

Children don't remember the war

No one needs them

Children of a dead country

See disturbing dreams

There's no king in the head, and ideals are funny

No matter how much you take, it won't be enough

Who made it in time, ate,1 everyone else - off to the junkyard

And no one pities you at all

This is such a time, know how to spin in circles2

Conquer your conscience, force your heart to be quiet

Make your past into a laughingstock

And walk off to nowhere on someone else's path

Be insatiable, desire more!

Manage to snatch an even fatter piece!

If they give - take, if they hit - run away

Believe only in an imagined overseas heaven

From faraway planets, in light

Our heroes send greetings

Together with them, we'll

Make our dreams a reality

We're on the most correct path

And apple trees will bloom

On Mars, just like on Earth

We're flying towards the target, like arrows

And when I retire to my rest3

I'll close my eyes with sadness

I won't ever wake up

In the best country in the world

Children don't remember the war

No one needs them

Children of a dead country

See disturbing dreams

1. An idiom translated literally - take it a bit more metaphorically. Basically means "he who made it, made it"2. Connotation of "know how to suck up and just do what you're told, know how to jump through hoops"3. Euphemism for death?

• Artist:Otto Dix