Wie Zuhause [English translation]

[Intro]

I'm sat in a Starbucks in Phuket

The Wi-Fi here is faster than what's at home

Perhaps this vacation will indeed bring me closer to other cultures

I'm sat in a Starbucks in Phuket (Starbucks in Phuket...)

Being served by a waitress from Mainz (Yes, from Mainz...)

Perhaps that's the modern style -

The way a person can reach for the stars!

Perhaps, oh, perhaps... (Perhaps...!)

[Part 1]

Ciao, I'm outta here. Whoever's looking, get lost! (*1)

Sometimes I like to google places in the world that you can't find on Google

I want to go somewhere where all the throngs of tourists never set foot

And to then set my feet there - tourists are always those other people

I want to use my phone to snap photos of the same thousand-year-old monuments which professional photographers have already made endless prints of

To use the local tongue to order the exact same grub I'd order at my local pub - "Do you have Hammelbraten/roast mutton?"

I want to buy overpriced souvenirs from some junk dealer

Which, in the end, will just gather dust on a shelf somewhere

I want to allow some green colour to fall on my eyes

Only not by going and standing in a greenhouse or anything, but rather just by sitting inside of a camping tent

Because I want good air! I'm nature-conscious

I also pay the ticket price (*2), airplane pollution added right into the carbon footprint

I want to hectically go from check-in to check-in, lose my luggage, get infections

Or have the same level of stress as a jet pilot

Switch currencies, find electricity in the hotel reception

As I calm down from all the travelling, I order some Beck's in a can

Look for a German channel on the television, self-reflection

As they ask me: "Is everything to your liking, Señor?"

[Bridge 1]

I feel like I'm right at home

Only, when I'm at home, I want to leave

And once again I book some flights, right on cue (*3)

From home and up into the eaves

Because anywhere else is also, when you really give it thought,

just a disguised version of here

Déjà-vü(berall)! (*4) Things still grow out of the ground

I see Opel, I see Pringles

And the moon - never once from behind

Déjà-vü(berall)! All people breathe, some people smoke

People ask about your beliefs

And get hangovers after they drink

Déjà-vü(berall)! Everyone runs - when they need to

Certain people have breasts

And teens fight with their hormones

Déjà-vü(berall)! People stack together a couple rocks

And then they have a place to stay

Without food, it's still shit

[Part 2]

I'm going to take photos until my fingers are sore, meticulous backdrop

I'm not here for fun, I'm cranking out memories!

M-m-memories for those rainier days,

Because a job routine and a wish to have children one day is like an execution! (*5)

[Bridge 2]

Home, home, home, home

Home, home, home, home

[Part 3]

Hola, I'm back again, it was so amazing!

I collected life-impacting experiences as if they were tro-uh-phies

Flying fish, Carribean rhythms, love stories,

If I hadn't already posted about it all there'd sure be a lot for me to tell you

It's like I'm born again (ohh), not exactly a difficult birth

You can see it in my indigenous tattoo and my break-up hairdo

Damn right - I'm also changing the way that I speak, ay

"Everything fresh, mate?" is my new catchphrase

From fast food schlub to heartfelt vegetarian

Now I only eat cows that drive Ferraris

I play sports now (so amazing), next summer will be the try-outs

Once again I've forever called it quits on my alcohol career

New hobby: Making clay sculptures - my new religion is rad(ical)

I'm going to pierce holes in you now for the nature gods

In the time since I became a bungee jumper, I've gotten V-fib

I really only just want to be different, just like all the other kids

One can hate the trend, that is until you notice, in a blinding rage

That hating the trend is also simply a trend

For some of my travels outside the country I needed to have ID,

But there's no passport that will take me out of my own skin

I reinvent myself, but in doing so only create a replica (replica!)

Starting today, I'll turn my life around by 360 degrees (360 degrees!)

Even with my cleansed outward appearance, my vest still remains black (black vest!)

Interchangable, terrible day, witch hunt

Because I run away from myself and think, if I'm faster than thoughts are

Then I'll leave my flaws behind me

But even with the ability to fly I still remain a prisoner

Like one of those chickens sat inside a battery cage

I drift into self-conscious embarressment with my little old self

Alone, but even there my little old self was too much for me

I perch myself in a traveller's paradise with a moderately severe allergie of the self (*6)

[Part 4]

I travel the depths of this earth

But I cannot escape myself

All of my flaws, all of my flaws

All of my flaws inside my luggage

I travel via airline and by raft

But I cannot escape myself

All of my flaws, all of my flaws

All of my flaws inside my luggage

Spacially, the distances are great

But I cannot escape myself

All of my flaws, all of my flaws

All of my flaws inside my luggage

I reach for the stars and for the dirt

But I cannot escape myself

All of my flaws, all of my flaws

All of my flaws inside my luggage, oh...!

[Outro]

I feel like I'm right at home

Only, when I'm at home, I want to leave

• Artist:Alligatoah
• Album:Schlaftabletten, Rotwein V