The cleaning lady she uses a cotton stick
To add the strychnine on every single wine glass
When will he pour himself a Cabernet or an El Pisón
And watch the same old movie once again?
She will light a few candles and shave her hairy legs
Drink Prosecco from a Bordeaux glass at the quivering light
of the candles and some cloying nineteen-eighties’ hits
That’s what will happen on torture eve
The garbage men handcuff the superstar
And show him all these pictures, one by one
He looks away in disgust, horror and dread
But he remembers just the romance that he had
They’ll blindfold the man and bring the water buckets quickly
They’ll talk to him quite softly and throw the water at his flawless teeth
And the neighbors will hear that ribbing once again
That’s what will happen on torture eve
And when you ask me, what torture eve means to me
Well, let me reflect this question for a while
I got a job that don’t suck too much and a wife that loves me still
Friends that leave me alone, and the Vertrauensgrundsatz
Statutory health insurance, public service television at a moderate fee, but every night I turn problems over in my mind and ask myself, what you might think of me, I don’t sleep a wink
Every eve is my torture eve
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