Stäffisburg English translation
von Patent Ochsner

Picking your nose in front of the red light
Thoughts swim through the swamp between your ears
And a buzzard flies over the field
One stands damn crooked in the landscape
The other somehow a little too straight
Life strikes where it hurts
Mercilessly with full force
Hey just don't let anything get to you
Otherwise it will strike even harder


At the roadside the dirty snow
Grey blue the sky and the lake
The landscape flies past us
We've been here before
Though it's been quite a while
Two three lives or so
And we are stuck here
We are stuck here
We are stuck here
Between Steffisburg and Thun
And dear God is in a bad mood

Fingernails fall in front of the feeding bowl
And wait for someone who may never be born
Crossword puzzles and Sudoku
And solitaire again and again
And we stroke our phones as tenderly as nothing else
And we build our ship and remain on land
On land on land on land on land

At the roadside the dirty snow
Grey blue the sky and the lake
The landscape flies past us
We've been here before
Though it's been quite a while
Two three lives or so
And we are stuck here
We are stuck here
We are stuck here
Between Steffisburg and Thun
And dear God is in a bad mood