Next time, it's best to be right at the front.

On stage - name tag!

For that, one swallows a lot of anger,

for the long-awaited picture:

I'm now on the board!

Coming soon: Ministry!

So, it's time to applaud.

retrieve the slogans.

Only to then bring them to the people,

in the "citizen talk", at the campaign stand -

Sometimes this doesn't work,

You're already half-known.

The citizen brazenly walks past,

because it's all the same to him.

What does he want, where is he going?

Perhaps only out of self-will?

He thinks of himself, just like he did before.

from those who want to represent him.

And this has now produced

a united people of constant

Know-it-alls, informers,

Böhzen Onkelz, Kaffeetanten,

other representatives

of the times we once knew;

back when it broke,

which democracy promised.