In stiller Nacht English translation
von Comedian Harmonists

The thoughts are free, who can guess them?
They flee like shadows of the night
No one can know them, no hunter can shoot them
It remains the same: the thoughts are free
It remains the same: the thoughts are free

The thoughts are free, so it’s been said for a long time
Despite servitude and tyranny, we were not all
And in our hearts, we could always laugh and joke
And all the while think: the thoughts are free

The thoughts are free, but now I have concerns
There are so many ways to influence them
There are these tricks, where they can be washed
And soon, 1, 2, 3, they are not so free anymore


The thoughts are free, as free as the press
And if you think otherwise, you'll get punched in the face
They want to control you, your knowledge and thinking
And maybe by next May, the thought police will come
(And maybe by next May, the thought police will come)

For whether CIA or NSA, they are lying in wait
If you don’t go the right way, they will get mad
They make your own thoughts waver
And you believe, by the way, that the thoughts are still free

The thoughts are free as long as they don’t disturb
But in prosperity and doom, do you know who they belong to?
Monsanto and banks and the oil suppliers
The algorithms of Google, better to give them the bullet
Then everything is over, the thoughts were free
(Then everything is over, the thoughts were free)