Nachbeben Lyrics in English Alligatoah

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Nachbeben by Alligatoah from German to English.

Intro

I blast

I blast myself with the sickest video content

Jihadi John sh*t, eFukt and bondage

I see articles on wars and conflict

My face is like a layer of concrete

’Cause I've seen it all

Except maybe a man

Who eats his own head

So not yet, nothing shocks me

I wear my sunglasses in the darknet

Incognito tabs, spoiled for choice

I'm a Spartan, ’cause only with thick skin

I won't be a black sheep in the job market

’Cause I toil like crazy to earn the dough

And later I can afford things like burnout therapy

Good ketamine for vicious games

Is the supreme discipline

At night in the kitchen with the psycho-terrorist

I become a poet, we talk only in invective poems

’Cause I live in a relationship with a verbal weapons belt

It wouldn’t be love if we didn’t hate each other

These faces, books, comments

Are my bedtime reading

And then I pound the keys

As if I'm practicing for Wacken

Our head is steel, we are hard

Until we lie down to sleep at night

Aftershocks

Just a shock, yet years later

Our hearts are china shops, aftershocks

Watch your soul

Aftershocks

Watch your soul

Bridge

I press

I press the button, Hiroshima

Another trauma, whoops

Seal it with Heisenberg crystals

We gotta party real hard till we fall

I scroll a century in a fraction

Of a second into the subconscious

People who liked this article

Are also into ropes and ladders, click on

At home the mood’s like the Führerbunker, poison

That’s why I pull another overtime shift

With tired tunnel vision, no matter if the boss insults me

Only 36 years left till retirement

Sure, I can fry you a kidney and an egg

I can do everything except say 'no'

Someday, they say, your dreams will come true

I hope not, ’cause I dream dark, good night

Our head is steel, we are hard

Until we lie down to sleep at night

Aftershocks

Just a shock, yet years later

Our hearts are china shops

Aftershocks

Watch your soul

Aftershocks

Watch your soul

Despite a life full of torture scenes

I have no scar tissue, uh, aftereffects

Only a shrug sometimes in the neck muscles

I hit the lotto right, I’m with a model

On honeymoon, I’m really impressed

I’m sitting on expenses, struck by lightning

With a broken neck, no big deal

And as I brood over things with a blank stare

I suddenly notice I’m beating my kid

And making noises like a male pinscher

'Everything okay?' 'I’m just tired!'

I thought my life was turning for the better

Yet I'm blazing with rage in restless retirement

Me: 'Over is over, whatevs'

My soul: 'Objection'

Our head is steel, we are hard

Until we lie down to sleep at night

Aftershocks

Just a shock, yet years later

Our hearts are china shops

Aftershocks

Watch your soul

Aftershocks

Watch your soul

Aftershocks

There’s no prosthetics for that

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Nachbeben — Aftershock

Nachbeben literally translates to "aftershock", like the tremors that follow an earthquake. It's a striking and evocative word that immediately brings to mind a sense of lingering impact and instability.

In the context of the song, Alligatoah uses it to describe the lasting psychological and emotional effects of trauma and conflict. He sings, "Bloß ein Schock, doch noch Jahre danach sind unsre Herzen Porzellanläden, Nachbeben" (Just a shock, but years later our hearts are porcelain shops, aftershocks), powerfully conveying how past experiences leave a fragile, lasting mark on one's soul. This metaphorical use makes it a truly memorable and impactful word.

Alligatoah’s “Nachbeben” throws you head-first into an information overload. The narrator doom-scrolls jihadi videos, war headlines and bondage clips, keeps working endless overtime, and fights in a toxic relationship that fires off insults like live ammo. On the surface he brags about having a “head of steel,” yet each grotesque image and each soul-crushing workday chips away at him. Irony, dark comedy and pop-culture name-drops turn the song into a chaotic carousel that mirrors our own late-night online binges.

The title means “aftershock,” and that is the warning hidden beneath the punchlines. Even if we feel numb in the moment, the quake of constant stress, violence and self-medication keeps rumbling inside us long after we close the laptop. Hearts compared to “porcelain shops” remind us how brittle we really are. Alligatoah invites us to dance through the rubble, but he also whispers a final piece of advice: pass auf deine Seele auf – take care of your soul.

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