There were flags going up on our street in the spring And the man who fixed our boiler put one on his gate He said finally somebody's saying it out loud And I didn't argue I just said, maybe They put a stage up in the square and I went down to look And I'll be honest with you, there was something in that crowd All those people singing like they'd finally found each other And I sang along I didn't know the words Es geht uns ja nichts an Man gewöhnt sich daran Es geht uns ja nichts an Man gewöhnt sich daran [German = It's not our business and one can get used to it] There's a van on the corner that wasn't there last week No plate on the back of it, nobody says whose And the man who ran the shop two doors down from us isn't opening anymore And nobody's asking why Too proud to look itself in the face A country that won't say what it's become And I'm not going to be the one to say it Not tonight Not from this house I have seen the ones with faith turn the lock and look away I have seen them call it order when they took the man next door And I counted what it'd cost me and I stayed in (we knew) we knew the whole time (we knew) we said it in our kitchens (we knew) and not one of us went out Es geht uns ja nichts an Man gewöhnt sich daran [Her] Say it out loud then. Say what we're letting happen. [Him] I'm keeping us out of it. [Her] That's not a thing you get to keep. [Him] I've got a job, I've got a kid, I've got a Tuesday [Her] So did he They sold us something to be frightened of so we'd never look up at the chains And it worked on you, and it worked on me and it's working right now in this kitchen I have seen the ones with faith turn the lock and look away I have seen them call it order when they took the man next door And I counted what it'd cost me and I stayed in (we knew) we knew the whole time (we knew) we said it in our kitchens (we knew) and not one of us went out Ordnung muss sein [German = order needs to be maintained] Ordnung muss sein They came for the ones we didn't know and we let the week go by They came for the ones across the road and we turned the volume up Now there's somebody at the end of our street and we're still in here with the lights off So I checked the bolt and I turned off the porch light and I told myself that somebody would handle it Half the street was watching through the curtains I was one of them I shut my door Wir haben nichts gewusst [we didn't know anything] (we knew) Wir haben nichts gewusst (we knew) and I shut my door
