Xavier Naidoo-Was Wir Alleine Nicht Schaffen

Here's another more mellow song: R&B or soul with some hip-hop in the middle would be my way of describing it. This song was very popular in Germany a few years ago, and it became a sort of anthem for Germany's soccer team in the finals leading up to the 2006 World Cup. The German team didn't win that year, but the song's themes of brotherhood, working together, and all that make it a good song to represent national pride in sports. This video isn't the actual music video for the song; instead it sets the song to clips of the German soccer team.





Lyrics Translation:

While the others toil and nothing happens
we are in the right place at the right time
and everything is taken care of. I am thankful for that
because every day with my brothers and sisters
I feel truly alive

What we can't achieve alone
We can achieve together
We need no weapons for it
Our only weapons are our minds
And what we can't achieve alone
We can achieve together
We must only be patient
For it won't take much longer

The others can laugh. No one laughs more than us.
What else should they do? We are knights who see life through rose-colored glasses
A life without you makes little sense. No life, no sound
It would be as though I were blind

What we can't achieve alone
We can achieve together
We need no weapons for it
Our only weapons are our minds
And what we can't achieve alone
We can achieve together
We must only be patient
For it won't take much longer

Something lies before us, life lies before us
Can you sense the approach of joy?

What we can't achieve alone
We can achieve together
We need no weapons for it
Our only weapons are our minds
And what we can't achieve alone
We can achieve together
We must only be patient
For it won't take much longer

We have wind in our sails again
And now nothing speaks against
achieving our goals, since many signs show that we are
superior for we are on the right track. Even when
we are met with problems
we can overcome the rain and remain calm
and manage it somehow
As we always have done
But without an inner map we would be lost and would have to
realize that we go in circles like on a
go-cart track
So let us be thankful that it isn't so
In times like these, we should never lose sight
of that which is the most important thing for so many people:
life's eternal challenge that has no rules except to
get to first place in the best time
But who cares what the people babble about, the inpatient ones who stumble
and fall
for achieving success through violence will not bring them anything
and that's exactly what we should understand

What we can't achieve alone
We can achieve together
We need no weapons for it
Our only weapons are our minds
And what we can't achieve alone
We can achieve together
We must only be patient
For it won't take much longer

-Translation: me

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