Interpret:

Einstürzende Neubauten

Album:

Perpetuum Mobile

They build a ship each wintertime
for launch to sea before the storm


They don't just go from A to B
they go around and come around again


'cause out there's always a construction site
a Starbucks and
yet another Gugenheim


Youme knows what Meyou wants
Meyou knows what Youme wants
and it's granted


No more tassels on the hotel key
a phone line, a laptop
and a box of tangerines


They turn houses into homes
where earthquakes live with car alarms
mature mild-mannered catastrophes


They gift each other a thousand names
and take them off, take them off again
like excessive jewelry


Youme knows what Meyou wants
Meyou knows what Youme wants
and it's granted


They defend each other against the past
if the future isn't bright at least it's colorful
so burn the ship come spring


They fail, fail and try again
fall off a cliff, succeed, and fall, fall again


They have proven quite effectively
that bumblebees indeed can fly
against the field's authority


They invent each other ever anew
still they won't have a different view
of everyone or anything


Defend themselves against the whims of fate
question the statistics, accelerate
the status quo, deny the rules of gravity


But they don't use the word
once dropped it might break


They do not say that they have loved
for who can say
We were killed yesterday


Youme knows what Meyou wants
Meyou knows what Youme wants
and it's granted