Believe your eyes. These are the foreign ministers of France and Germany disgracing themselves and their nations. This abuse of music, ‘sung’ by Bernard Kouchner and Frank Steienmeier, is supposedly a song about European integration. The European vision does seem a little... lop-sided when you listen to the chorus, though, doesn't it?...

These are the lyrics (Winehouse, step aside...)

Verse 1:
We have other customs, you have other customs
Come, let’s look at each other in the eyes, say what we think
Show our true face,
You ask why we are as we are
We ask why you are as you are
Come, let’s meet at last and talk really normal

Bridge:
Calm down, be straight
Understand me and look at me
Your judgement is not fair
Try to forget the black hair

Chorus:
Germany, why do you cut yourself off
Germany, put your cards on the table
Germany, why do you cut yourself off
Germany, put your cards on the table

Verse 2:
Do you think I’m going to surrender
Do you think I won’t oppose
Do you think that I’ll just lie quietly on the floor
It won’t be that way we won’t give up
We’ll go on strike we’ll go upwards
You won’t hold us back
You will see we will do it

Bridge:
Calm down…

Chorus:
Germany…

Verse 3:
We’re not at home here, not there either
It is a puzzle for me, but I live both lives
Am proud of both, try to understand
How long has it been, why is it so difficult
The hate has been growing and growing
A labyrinth made from right and wrong
Too many peoples, what did we see
Only traditions, that bite situations, that prove nothing
Just cause we’re always quiet
Doesn’t mean we’re dumb, deaf and blind

Bridge:
Calm down…

Chorus:
Germany…

C-part:
Sometimes I ask why, sometimes I don’t know why
Sometimes I have thoughts, hopes that swing
We stay in the now and here, we’ve seen so much
40 years are over, so much has happened
I’m not showing you my feelings
You’re not showing us your feelings
We’re between two stools
How come that doesn’t move you

Bridge:
Calm down…

Chorus:
Germany…