Monday, March 1, 2010

Punk's Not Dead! It's Speaking German!

(March 6 2010 updated, corrected my interpolated translation at bottom)

Punk's not dead, but it's speaking German. Perhaps you'd like a Google Translation? Although actually, I think the energy speaks for itself. I must admit to a great deal of temptation to go blast this loudly in the parking lot at the Dutch Country Market just to see the looks on the faces of the teen Amish Girls. Then again, they might have already got them booked for their next rumspringa party...



(Debbie Rockt, "Ich Rocke")


Here you stand with your life before you
All alone in Labyrinth
No one says, but you know it
That's Reality

Anyone pretending false faith
For your future you'd believe
But you're not captured
I write future history.

Because I rock!
For nothing holds me here
For nothing's better than that
I rock and I know it

Because I rock!
For nothing holds me here
Nothing's better than that
I rock and I know it

You know how I feel

Standing here now backed up by my band
Feeling adrenalin in me
We cannot stand
And wait
Let's all stand

The countdown runs
We'll play ecstatically
You'll be swept away in time
As in a wave
Breaking over all herein

Because I rock!
For nothing holds me here
For nothing's better than that
I rock and I know it

Because I rock!
For nothing holds me here
Nothing's better than that
I rock and I know it

I know you think like me
I know you feel like me
I know you know exactly
What is going on in my head

Even it we can't know
The duration of this path
The force comes through
Not just to us but to you
A strange appeal
Let us propel you
Perhaps alternate explanations
Perhaps we are too self-deluding
But still can feel what's going on here
But we rock, and it rocks, and you're all rocking too

We rock it!
No stopping us here
For nothing's better than that
We all rock and I know it

We rock it!
We're not stopping here
Nothing's better than that
We all rock and I know it

We rock, ...