Regen

A phenomenon we encounter every year:
It's midsummer. But it's raining,
because Peter, surely a devout Christian,
sometimes forgets that it's summer,
and he seems to do it with great joy,
of course, precisely today
here in this huge open-air...
It feels like we're in the tropics!
The audience - listen and be amazed! -
somehow doesn't have the best mood.
I see them lying on the soaked grass,
and how they're freaking out on the grass.
Hardly anyone listens to me anymore,
and the few who do, shout: 'Boo!'
And I wonder a bit annoyed:
Why isn't this field covered?

That's why I'm
against the rain.
The rain doesn't stop annoying me.
In the rain, I get really depressed.
Constantly and repeatedly
the precipitation knocks me down.
That's why I think rain is super negative.

Admittedly, rain brings blessings in remote areas,
because it usually doesn't rain there.
But here, on the other hand,
we have more rain than we need.
There's only one occasion,
where the rain actually pleases me,
and that's on particularly hot summer days,
when the girls wear only white t-shirts.
Otherwise, as a songwriter,
rain is truly my greatest adversary.
I'm sure that even if
it doesn't rain here anymore,
it will surely rain later.
Sometimes my colleagues ask me:
Why do you sing songs against rain?
Why not against terror or war
or US foreign policy?
...uh...okay.

So I'll sing now
against Ronald Reagan.
He didn't stop annoying me back then.
But he was nothing compared to Nixon or Bush (that stupid jerk!)
I believe, of all the incompetent
American presidents,
none messed up as much as Bush.
My colleagues say
we should promote political protest songs in every way.
Yeah, sure, whatever. Still, I prefer to sing
songs against rain instead of Nixon, Bush, or Reagan.
Because, when it comes to Bush, there's a defining
difference compared to rain,
because we only have to endure Bush for two more years.
Rain, on the other hand...

That's why I'm
against the rain.
The rain doesn't stop annoying me.
In the rain, I get really depressed.
Constantly and repeatedly
the precipitation knocks me down.
That's why I think rain is super negative.