[Verse 1 - Jewish boy]
The David’s star
On my wintercoat
My mother took it off to hide it
In the drawer
New buttons on
My Sunday shirt
She ironed it and put it
On the table
On the wall
A poster of the Führer
‘Fanta erfrischt’
On the wall
A poster of a US soldier
‘What I want is a coke’

[Verse 2 - Soldier boy]
Mother ironed my black shirt
And hung my uniform on the wall
SS on the sleeves
New buttons
And a swastika
On my black shirt

[Verse 3 - Jewish boy & soldier boy]
We are sleeping
In lits-jumeaux
A thin wall between us
A thin wall bewteen 2 houses, 29 and 31
A shadow play
Elfenbein und schwarzer Stahl
In lits-jumeaux
[Verse 4 - Soldier boy]
A shadow play on the wallpaper with flowers
Shadows of the war… the battlefields…and trains
A shadow play
Puppets on a string
Trains
Buttons
Ivory
Black steel
Elfenbein
Schwarzer Stahl