Spoliansky: The Lavender Song - Ute Lemper, Matrix Ensemble, Robert Ziegler

What makes them think they have the right

To say what God considers vice?

What makes them think they have the right

To keep us out of Paradise?

They make our lives hell here on earth

Poisoning us with guilt and shame

If we resist, prison awaits

So our love dares not speak its name

The crime is when love must hide

From now on we’ll love with pride!

We’re not afraid to be queer and different

If that means hell, well hell we’ll take the chance

They’re all so straight, uptight, upright and rigid

They march in lock-step, we prefer to dance

We see a world of romance and of pleasure

All they can see is sheer banality

Lavender nights our greatest treasure

Where we can be just who we want to be

Round us all up, send us away

That’s what you’d really like to do

But we’re too strong, proud, unafraid

In fact we almost pity you

You act from fear, why should that be?

What is it that you’re frightened of?

The way that we dress?

The way that we meet?

The fact that you cannot destroy our love?

We’re going to win our rights to lavender days and nights!

We’re not afraid to be queer and different

If that means hell, well hell we’ll take the chance

They’re all so straight, uptight, upright and rigid

They march in lock-step, we prefer to dance

We see a world of romance and of pleasure

All they can see is sheer banality

Lavender nights our greatest treasure

Where we can be just who we want to be

Lavender nights our greatest treasure

Where we can be just who we want to be