Boy

When I was a little boy I heard my father's stories of heroes, who get bowed to He told me about all the great voyages and moments of fulfilment That they meet on their journey Somehow I believed everything They felt so amazing, to be an exemplary adult And even if it costs your life, don't be the farmhand of someone else Fists up he convinces me Then I grew older, maybe more troublesome When I no longer believed the stories Put on fancy clothes, boy, and your fatherland's ideology Remember, boy, what I have told you Be an exemplary child and you'll grow stronger You get to defend your country And even if it costs your life, don't be anyone's farmhand Remember your fists that you have to swing Now that boy walks his own route here Bangs his head on a wall and sings his songs Now that boy laughs and makes others laugh And doesn't even want to learn anything else This is enough for me Others can fight their wars This is enough for me I have learned more than you even know Fancy words don't fit him, perhaps a gap in education He's the brat of this fine family He didn't go to the army, didn't learn to defend Even though he was taught to do so So much money he got every saturday Father opens up all broken-hearted And something deeper than the surface of life I wanted and I have found I want to decide something for myself, I want to show something myself To fill every moment with life And even if the cold highway sometimes might even be dark So much I have learned Another human can be worth gold This you never told me at all This is what I want from life, because it feels good And I don't need to swing my fist in the air Now that boy walks his own route here Bangs his head on a wall and sings his songs Now that boy laughs and makes others laugh And doesn't even want to learn anything else This is enough for me Others can fight their wars This is enough for me I have learned more than you even know Now that boy walks his own route here Bangs his head on a wall and sings his songs Now that boy laughs and makes others laugh And doesn't even want to learn anything else This is enough for me Others can fight their wars This is enough for me I have learned more than you even know