Nachbeben Lyrics in English Alligatoah

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Nachbeben by Alligatoah from German to English.
Intro
I blast
I blast
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
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
Watch your soul
Aftershocks
There’s no prosthetics for that
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SONG MEANING

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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