✕
Übersetzung
Junk Shop
That the world was and will be a piece of trash
I already know...
In 506
and in 2000 as well!
That there have always been thieves,
Machiavellis1 and swindlers,
People both happy and bitter,
Barons and hypocrites.
But that the 20th century
Is an exhibition
Of insolent wickedness
No one will deny.
We spend our lives wallowing around in filth
And in the same mire
We've all dirtied our hands.
Today it seems it's all the same
Whether you're an honest man or a traitor,
ignoramus, sage, pickpocket,
philanthropist or con artist!
Everything's the same! Nothing is better!
A moron is the same
As a great professor!
There are no failures, nor even a grade scale
The immoral have made us all the same.
If one lives as an impostor
And another robs in his ambition,
It makes no difference if you're a priest,
Mattress-maker, the King of Clubs2,
Opportunist or deadbeat.
What a lack of respect,
What an affront to reason!
Anybody is a nobleman!
Anybody is a thief!
And "La Mignon"5
Just like the tasteless window display
Of a junk shop
Life has been all mixed up
And wounded by a saber without rivets.10
You see the Bible weeping
Against a water heater.11
Twentieth century junk shop,
Problematic and feverish!
The baby who doesn't cry doesn't get to nurse12
And the man who doesn't steal is an idiot.
Just go for it! Go ahead, come on!
Cause there in the furnace
We're going to find ourselves!
Don't think anymore
Sit down on the sidelines
Cause nobody cares
If you were born honorable.
He's just the same, he who labors
Night and day, like an ox,
As he who lives off of others,
As he who kills, as he who heals,
Or is outside of the law.
- 1. Meaning people like Niccolo Machiavelli, a philosopher whose name has become synonymous with unscrupulous politics
- 2. As in the playing card
- 3. A professional scammer known for the Stavisky Affair, a financial scandal in France in 1934
- 4. A 19th-century priest and educator
- 5. Probably refers to a literary character named Mignon, a kidnapped girl who is forced to sing, dance and have fun in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, and in the 19th-century opera Mignon based on the novel
- 6. The nickname of Juan Galiffi, a gangster in Argentina in the early 20th century
- 7. Napoleon Bonaparte, military leader and Emperor of the French from 1804-1814
- 8. Italian boxer crowned world champion in 1933
- 9. General who led parts of South America in war of independence from Spain and is regarded as a national hero
- 10. The name, translated literally, for a wire hook used as a kind of toilet paper holder in Argentina in the early 20th century.
- 11. This famous line both contrasts the divine and mundane, and also refers to the irreverent practice by some Argentinian Catholics in the early 20th century of tearing pages from Protestant Bibles and using them as toilet paper. The toilet paper holder referred to in the line above was often located next to the water heater. See https://www.taringa.net/+ciencia_educacion/en-argentina-se-usaban-las-bi... for details.
- 12. A Spanish proverb similar to "The squeaky wheel gets the grease" - both meaning that those who make the most noise are the most likely to get their problems addressed
| Danke! ❤ |  |  |
| 3 Mal gedankt | ||
Von 
ssleon64 am 2020-01-26 eingetragen
ssleon64 am 2020-01-26 eingetragenZuletzt von ssleon64 am 2020-04-11 bearbeitet
ssleon64 am 2020-04-11 bearbeitet✕
Julio Iglesias: Top 3
| 1. | Me olvidé de vivir |
| 2. | Je n'ai pas changé |
| 3. | Abrázame |
Idiome in „Cambalache“
| 1. | a chorros |
| 2. | like night and day |
| 3. | sable sin remache |
| 4. | The squeaky wheel gets the grease. |
Kommentare
Russland führt einen schändlichen Krieg gegen die Ukraine. Stehen Sie an der Seite der Ukraine!
Über den Übersetzer
Version used in Narcos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH6_jzFlkFg