Come closer, kid, listen up
I'm gonna tell you the story of humankind
At first there was nothing, at first it was fine
Nature kept moving, there were no paths
Then man showed up with his big boots
Kicks in the face to get respect
He started drawing one-way roads
Arrows across the plain multiplied
And every element ended up mastered
In no time flat the story was wrapped up
We sure won't backtrack anytime soon
We even started polluting the desert
And that's no small thing to say
You're not gonna die laughing
And that says a lot
In a few years we'll have gobbled up the leaf
And your grandkids will only have one eye left
Right in the middle of their forehead they'll ask you
Why you have two, you'll look like a dumb*ss
They'll ask how you could let that happen
You can try to defend yourself, explain it softly
It's not my fault, it's the elders' fault
But there'll be nobody left to wash your hands
You'll tell them about the time when you could
Eat fruit on the grass, lying in the meadows
There were animals everywhere in the forest
At the start of spring the birds came back
And that's no small thing to say
You're not gonna die laughing
And that says a lot
Tomorrow everything gets worse
You're not gonna die laughing
And that says a lot
The worst in this story is we're slaves
Somewhere killers, here totally helpless
To look at the trees without feeling guilty
Half stripped, one hundred percent miserable
So there you have it, kid, the story of humankind
It's not pretty at all, and I don't know the end
You weren't born in a cabbage but rather in a hole
That we fill every day like a manure pit
And that's no small thing to say
You're not gonna die laughing
And that says a lot
Tomorrow everything gets worse
You're not gonna die laughing
That's no small thing to say