LEARN LYRICS

SONG MEANING

**Tired of alarm clocks, rent payments, and the same gray commute, Casper’s narrator wakes up one morning with sunlight on his face and a single resolution: get out. “Auf und Davon” is a high-energy escape plan set to music. He quits the job he hates, refuses to keep living from bill to bill, and dreams of anywhere that still rewards a genuine smile—whether that is Saint-Tropez, the mountains, or even an ordinary town like Bielefeld. The song captures the moment when frustration flips into courage, when you decide to stop merely functioning and start living.

Instead of preaching, Casper paints vivid snapshots: factory halls where life rushes by on conveyor belts, the Groundhog-Day feeling of repetitive routines, and the freedom that comes with burning bridges behind you. The hook—“heute bin ich aufgewacht … halte die Welt an und bin auf und davon” (“today I woke up … I freeze the world and I’m off and away”)—turns the track into an anthem for anyone itching to trade monotony for possibility. It is a call to inhale, stop asking for permission, and finally run toward the version of life you once imagined at sixteen.

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