GERMANY, GERMANY (Behind The Track)

Germany, Germany took a long time to write And right before we needed to pack up our instruments to go to the studio We solved the mystery and came up with an arrangement of the song That suited everybody and turned out really good We've tried everything, we've had so many different arrangements But what the song's been missing was the impact of the whole band So once we got that right, everything was fine And we were ready to go to the studio As a kid, I never had identified myself as a German Or thought about my nationality in any kind of way It simply didn't matter where I was from And my parents raised me as an open-minded little fellow My dad worked with a lot of people from all over the place And they came by for dinner every once in a while And it never mattered where they were from But when I moved to Austria and went to school there I was confronted with being the German kid every day It started when I was ten years old And I was excluded from groups and getting the feeling of not belonging there And it took on from there 'til I had finished school and moved to Munich It never left my mind Nationalities are a weird thing I mean you can't choose where you born and raised, but in 2021 People still reduce other people to their nationality Gender, race, religion or whatsoever Let's face it, this is bullshit For me experiencing that in school taught me something That the actual lessons couldn't teach me at all Despite what I've experienced, my optimism was still way too big To get disturbed by mean comments by some idiots So, when I was 16, I thought that such a thing- I felt like racism was something ancient Something that is over Something that books talk about to teach us about history Shouldn't we know it better? Oh well, growing up a little more, my optimism got a pretty rough reality check I felt like racism was something ancient Something that is over Something that books talk about to teach us about history Shouldn't we know it better? Oh well, growing up a little more, my optimism got a pretty rough reality check I believe humanity can overcome racism It's pretty optimistic and has a long way to go But realizing that at least in the theory There's an actual chance of living in a world without racism 'Cause it is something made by humankind And it can also be stopped by humankind, keeps me motivated