Das lila Lied (Lavender Song) - Babylon Berlin Season 5

"Das lila Lied" by Kurt Schwabach and Mischa Spoliansky is probably the first queer anthem ever recorded. It was published in 1920, in a time where queer people were, if not accepted, at least tolerated to a certain degree. English translation: Verse: What do they want? Is this culture that every human is outlawed who is – wise and well – however with blood of their own kind perfused that nevertheless this category is banned by the law, who is in feeling in pleasure and playing and in its kind related? And still most of us are proud, to be cut from different cloth! Chorus: We are just different from the others who are being loved only in lockstep of morality who wander curiously through a thousand wonders and who are only up to the trivial. But we do not know what the feeling is since we are all children of a different kind of world we only love lavender night, who is sultry because we are just different from the others! 2nd Verse (omitted in this version): Wozu die Qual, uns die Moral der andern aufzudrängen? Wir, hört geschwind, sind wie wir sind, selbst wollte man uns hängen. Wer aber denkt, daß man uns hängt, den müßte man beweinen, doch bald, gebt acht, wird über Nacht auch uns're Sonne scheinen. Dann haben wir das gleiche Recht erstritten, wir leiden nicht mehr, sondern sind gelitten! (English) Why the torment to impose morals of others on us? We, listen to this, are what we are, even if they want to hang us. But who thinks, that we are going to be hanged for that one we would have to feel sorry but soon, listen up, all of a sudden our sun will be shining too. Then we will have contended successfully for our rights we will not suffer anymore, but we will be tolerated!