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von Herbert Grönemeyer

Colours on the asphalt
Water splashing into your face
You start singing to encourage yourself
Nearly overwhelmed in anger
Heading for the violence

Thinking it over all night long
Supervised for years
Gave it up a thousand times
Everything's wrong, I just wanna live

Refrain:
Now or never
Now or never again
Now or never
You just keep on washing your cars

They'll take photos of you
They'll register you
You'll ruin your whole life
Why only you, there'll be so many others


Fighting for a country
Where everyone is allowed to speak
Shouting out what's hurting him
Those who swallow forever, will die inside

It's so good for you
When your soul is burning
You're running out to the street
Showing that you don't feel well
That your head is breaking
And you know you must do something

We get censored step by step
People are getting offended without respect
Like a herd of cows
We're looking up for a moment
And then grazing on at ease

The television is talking us dead
Plants die from shortness of air
We always wait too long
Time goes by, we'll have to work it out