Tłumaczenie Jacek Trojanowski
Bullets not words
70 years was not that long ago
back then there too was a broadcast on the radio
drunk with lethal gas
smothered piece by piece
killed individually en masse
black and blue from nazi nightsticks
the rhyme came today to me:
I have a dream! I have a dream!
[We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal - excerpt from "United States Declaration of Independence" from "I Have A Dream" public speech by M.L.King Jr.]
Third Reich, South Africa apartheid
The same game has been played
Another sea boat sinks
Another faceless emigrant
Political pigs devour success
No one remembers the face,
No one recalls the name
Bullets not words
Freedom of move! Freedom of move!
Bullets not words
Misogyny
Thousand years of bloody history
Religion the face of suppression
Woman’s body a battlefield
Of exploitation and oppression
Ch:
He who defends wickedness is not right
Whether it’s a pope an imam or a rabbi
No mercy for criminals
with a gun in your holster
Not for self-defense
But in the name of god
Kill the woman
The worst foe
Your body is your temple
Not the cathedral the mosque or the synagogue
Your body is your thing
Not the official’s or the messenger’s of god
He who defends wickedness is not right
Whether it’s a pope an imam or a rabbi
No mercy for criminals
with a gun in your holster
Not for self-defense
But in the name of god
Kill the woman
The worst foe
it is time to end
the religious misogyny
tear off hangman’s head
time to liberatey
Working clas
Another day without a glass of water
Prohibition to cool down
noise of words and thoughts die down
Eye shuts the dialogue goes out..
My gal pals from the plant
Share bread at lunchtime
They can’t afford two
Crumbs in the tear of life..
Night shift and the morning shivers
Franz Kafka’s trial I do not believe
get paid to snitch get stabbed when in debt
Factories in workers’ hands…
Not every truth is self manifest
That the enemy is the national socialist
That the management board
rules and controls the payoff ..
It is hard to live off of a handout
Spring summer fall and wintertime
a ministry is not involved
dead silence on the telephone…
a democracy a participation
in front of the office demonstration …
But the prime minister is not home
out on holiday, he’s playing football..
my eyes look and I don’t see where
train station at 4 AM
I sit confused after the night shift
Vodka and vinegar for breakfast to eat
I count the minutes in my dream I die
a cashier lady tears the old ticket stubs
a speaker roars the timetable amends
a wolf among human herd..
and when I think of pals from work
about the authorities out of control
then my blood boils
vodka is left as the only choice
I hate you sincerely anyway
two bottles instead of one today
Thirteenth day with no water
Fire instead of agreement
Words worth a life
A dialogue without food or drink
I would like you to know
that I love you so..
Lots of courage in life is needed
To renounce a piece of bread
To recognize evil through its works
To reach the very bottom
And that’s a truth not yet sold
Where there is no god there is no devil
And that’s a truth not yet sold
Where there is no god there is no devil
Where there is no god…
