De Tyske Soldater - Pede B

For ti år siden på et lille hospital

Der holdt han sit livs allersidste tale

For der var noget som de hellere måtte finde frem igen

For hans søster boede stadigvæk i deres barndomshjem

Og under gulvbrædderne der lå det stadig

Støvet, rustent, koldt og ubehageligt

De ringede da de fandt den

Betjenten fra Hillerød var ved at få kaffen galt i halsen

Ingen af os kendte detaljerne

For han har aldrig rigtig fortalt om det

Men frihedsfonden gav ham penge til sin dødsdag

Hvilket siger mig der lå noget seriøst bag

Det gir' mig noget at leve op til

Vil så gerne tænke jeg kan stå der med folkene

Men jeg må droppe det, selvom tanken den er lokkende

Kan ikk' sætte mig ind i hvordan de så på odds’ne

Vender mit syn mod de faner

Der stod på halvt på grund af tyske soldater

Vi så dem som syge psykopater

Der gik rundt i gaden som et syret teater

Min familie gjorde ord til handling

Og valgte med den satsning at risikere alting

Ved ikke om det var sådan jeg vil ha tacklet det

Men jeg ønsker det brændende

Min morfars storebror tog sin afsked ved

At fortælle hvor maskingeværet var gravet ned

For de var frihedskæmpere, og det er tit jeg tænker

Om jeg ku' gøre som disse mennesker

Ville væde med jeg ville hade de tyske soldater

Opfordre folk til at skyde på de tabere

Ønske de var i overfyldte lokaler

Der blev bombarderet med bly og granater

Eller andre våben, lige i kraniet på dem

Spytte i gulvet når folk nævnte navnet på dem

Folk valgte side og endte med at dø for dem

Min bedste vens oldefar faldt ved østfronten

Og vi har set billeder i sort hvid

Af ham som nazist fra en alt for fjern fortid

Vi havde forfædre på hver vores side

Så jeg gad godt vide

Om vi overhovedet ville kunne sammen

Hvis vi havde levet i den kulde sammen

For når hadet i dig hyler og vræler

Ser du kun tyske soldater

Min morfars storebror tog sin afsked ved

At fortælle hvor maskingeværet var gravet ned

For de var frihedskæmpere, og det er tit jeg tænker

Om jeg ku' gøre som disse mennesker

Ten years ago in a small hospital

There he gave the very last speech of his life

Because there was something they had better find out again

For his sister still lived in their childhood home

And under the floorboards there it still lay

Dusty, rusty, cold and uncomfortable

They called when they found it

The officer from Hillerød was getting the coffee wrong in his throat

None of us knew the details

Because he never really told about it

But the Freedom Fund gave him money for his day of death

Which tells me there was something serious behind it

It gives me something to live up to

Would so like to think I can stand there with the people

But I have to drop it, even if the thought is enticing

Can not understand how they looked at the odds

Turns with his mod the tabs

There stood at half because of German soldiers

We saw them as sick psychopaths

It walked around the street like an acid theater

My family turned words into action

And chose with that bet to risk everything

Do not know if that was how I would have tackled it

But I want it burning

My grandfather's big brother said goodbye

To tell where the machine gun was dug down

Because they were freedom fighters, and that's often I think

If I could do like these people

Would bet I would hate the German soldiers

Encourage people to shoot at the losers

Wish they were in crowded rooms

They were bombarded with lead and grenades

Or other weapons, right in the skull of them

Spit in the floor when people mentioned the name of them

People chose side and ended up dying for them

My best friend's great-grandfather fell on the eastern front

And we've seen pictures in black and white

By him as a Nazi from an all too distant past

We had ancestors on each our side

So I was wondering

If we could be together at all

If we had lived in that cold together

For when the hatred within you howls and howls

Do you see only German soldiers

My grandfather's big brother said goodbye

To tell where the machine gun was dug down

Because they were freedom fighters, and that's often I think

If I could do like these people