A Revoluzzer - Konstantin Wecker Übersetzung ins Englische

A Revoluzzer

Mit dem Lebn
Da hast doch bloß dei Schererei.
Kaum fangst o damit
Na is a scho vorbei.
Wenn was sagn wuist
Werst dadruckt

Und bist stad
Werd auf di gspuckt

Und so kummts
Daß jeder hoit sein Ärga obaschluckt.

A Revoluzzer müaßt ma sei
Dann war des Leidn schnei vorbei

Aber wer macht si scho di Plog und macht sei Mei auf
Wenn a mog.

Alle Dog
Da habn ma doch des gleiche Gspui

Du hast oiwei zweng
Die andern oiwei zvui

Wennst was wuist
Na muast wos kaffa

Nimmst das einfach
Na muast raffa

Manchmoi woaß ma scho glei nimmer
Wos ma wui.

A Revoluzzer müaßt ma sei
Dann war des Leidn schnei vorbei

Aber wer macht si scho die Plog und traut sich mögen
Wann a mog

Und traut sich mögen
Wann a mog.

Und dann frogst di irgendwann
Was is passiert?
Ois is glaffa
Und jetzt bist hoit a scho z müad.
Du schaugst zruck und denkst: Ja mei
Wos hoit sei muaß des muaß sei

Dem oana ghört die Hitz
Da andre gfriat.

Und trotzdem
Ganz hinten im Hirn
Da dads hoit doch no a
Bissal rumorn
Weil - irgendwos kannt scho dro sei an dera
Revoluzzerei...

A Revoluzzer müaßt ma sei
Dann war der Ärger schnei vorbei

Aba wer macht si scho die Plog und revoluzzt den ganzn Dog...

A Revolutionary

Darling, with life
There's just one aggravation:
Hardly have you begun
Then it's over!
When you want to say something
You get stamped on,

And if you keep quiet,
You get spat on.

That's why
Everyone keeps their troubles to themselves.

My darling, you've got to be a revolutionary,
Then the suffering would soon be over.

But who's going to take the trouble and open their mouth
When they could?

Every single day
We all feel the same,

You always have too little,
The others always too much.

If you want something
You have to buy it;

If you just take it
You have to steal it.

Sometimes I don't even know anymore
What I want.

My darling, you've got to be a revolutionary,
Then the suffering would soon be over.

But who's going to take the trouble and dare to love,
When they could?

And dare to love,
When they could?

And then sometime you ask yourself:
What happened?
Everything has slipped through your fingers,
And now you're just too tired.
You look back and think: oh well,
What had to be, had to be.

One person gets the heat,
The other freezes.

And yet,
In the back of your mind,
There's still a little
Rumor,
Because - there could be something to this
Revolutionary idea...

My darling, you've got to be a revolutionary,
Then the trouble would soon be over.

But who's going to take the trouble and be a revolutionary all day long...