Zu nah an der Wahrheit English translation
von Böhse Onkelz

We don't know each other
But we are familiar with each other
Somehow kindred spirits
Even if you don't believe it

Maybe I'm standing in front of you
And you don't recognize me
Does that matter
We looked into the same light

We are like you
Believe it or not
Sooner or later
We'll get you too

We're too
Too close to the truth
Too close to life
Too penetrating to be
To be ignored


We can't be heard in passing
We want everything or nothing
We challenge you
Look the truth in the face

There's something magical about this band
They cast a spell over me
The way I felt myself
It happens to everyone at some point

It's like a virus
And once you're infected
Everything else becomes irrelevant
And it lives unabashedly

It's our destiny
Where would I be without her
Where would you be
In this race without a destination

She is a magical theater
Food for the soul
Something that drives me
Perhaps the reason why I live


Is there anything more beautiful
than sharing these songs?
To experience them together
Laughing and crying together

We are like you
Believe it or not
Sooner or later
We'll get you too

We are too
Too close to the truth
Too close to life
Too penetrating to be
To be ignored

We can't be heard in passing
We want everything or nothing
We challenge you
Look the truth, look the truth in the face

Too close to the truth
Too close to life (in the face of the truth)
Too penetrating to be
To be ignored (in the face of the truth)

You don't hear us in passing
We want everything or nothing (in the face of the truth)
We challenge you
Look the truth in the face (the truth in the face)