Youme And Meyou - Einstürzende Neubauten

they build a ship each wintertime 
for launch to sea before the storm 

they don't just go from a to b 
they go around and come around again 

'cause out there's always a construction site 
a starbucks* and 
yet another gugenheim* 

youme knows what meyou wants 
meyou knows what youme wants 
and it's granted 

no more tassels on the hotel key 
a phone line, a laptop 
and a box of tangerines 

they turn houses into homes 
where earthquakes live with car alarms 
mature mild-mannered catastrophes 

they gift each other a thousand names 
and take them off, take them off again 
like excessive jewelry 

youme knows what meyou wants 
meyou knows what youme wants 
and it's granted 

[they defend each other against the past 
if the future isn't bright at least it's colorful 
so burn the ship come spring] 

they fail, fail and try again 
fall off a cliff, succeed, and fall, fall again 

they have proven quite effectively 
that bumblebees indeed can fly 
against the field's authority 

they invent each other ever anew 
still they won't have a different view 
of everyone or anything 

defend themselves against the whims of fate 
question the statistics, accelerate 
the status quo, deny the rules of gravity 

but they don't use the word 
once dropped it might break 

they do not say that they have loved 
for who can say 
we were killed yesterday 

youme knows what meyou wants 
meyou knows what youme wants 
and it's granted