DOWN TO THE TOP

You walk with dreams and wishes
but people don´t want them come true.
Like dredgers and cranes they´re throwing stones in your way,
like if they´d get paid to break you.

You got to conform to society.
You got to forget
whatever you feel and whatever you want,
or else there´d be much to regret.

I´m going down to love, nothing to think over, babe,
down to love and then
I´m gonna stay myself, nothing to think over, babe,
down to the top again.

You got to be inconspicious.
Superiors are frightened of skill.
Nothing too stupid and nothing to dull,
important is only their will.

You live for just one reason:
The ladder is never too high.
Jump in their beds to help your career,
your smile is to cover your cry.

© Christian Grill, 1992 (AKM)