It comes before, that I think, something clinks
Something gets lost in me
A noise, not even loud
Sometimes it clinks familiarly
Rarely so, that we see through it directly

We wake up, open our eyes and see
In a picture between Breughel and Bosch
No person, who cares about sirens
Because all-clear only cost half as much
It smells like Kristallnacht

In the calm before the storm, what is that?
Very secretly someone leaves the city
Dignitaries in disguise hurry past
Officially they don't like to be there
When the people's soul, always ready
Rages and screams towards boiling point
"Heil, Halali" and limitlessly horny for revenge roars
Trembling with envy
In the Kristallnacht

But those who disturb everything, what is different
Those who swim with the current, as it should be
For the gays are criminals
Foreigners are leprosy
Need someone who seduces them

And then no cavalry saves
No Zorro cares about it
He pisses at most a "Z" in the snow
And falls lolling from indifference
"So what? Kristallnacht"
Kristallnacht

In the church with the Franz Kafka clock
Without hands with only strokes on it
A blind man reads Struwwelpeter to a deaf man
Behind a triple locked door
And the guard with the bunch of keys thinks
He's something like a genius
Because he pulverizes ways out
And sells against claustrophobia
In the Kristallnacht

Meanwhile, at the market place maybe
Unmasked, today with the true face
Collects stones, sharpens the knife
On those who are already battered
The lynch mob rehearses for the last judgement
And only briefly moored for loading
The galleys are already under steam
Wait in the harbor for slaves
On the scrap from the unequal fight
From the Kristallnacht

There, where Darwin is blamed for everything
Whether people are driven away or tortured
There, where behind power is money
Where the strong are the world
Distorted by bowing and standing at attention
Where hymns are even blown on the comb
In barbaric greed for profit
"Hosanna" and "Crucify him" calls
Whoever sees any advantage in it
Is daily Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht

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