VC2: Making Cocaine

UP WITH HOPE (DOWN WITH DOPE) LYRICS, created by Lucky Dube
I have know this preacherman (Ich kenne diesen Priester)
For a long time, he was a good man (Lange Zeit war er ein guter Mann)
I have known this judge (Ich kannte diesen Richter)
For a long time, he was a good man (Lange Zeit war ein guter Mann)
I have known this teacher (Ich kenne diesen Lehrer)
For a long time, he was a good man too (Lange Zeit war er ein guter Mann)
But because of the drugs (Aber wegen der Drogen)
They've been taking secretly (Wurden Sie geheimnisvoll weggenommen)
Them are in loony houses today (Sie sind nun in Irrenhäusern)

We cannot stand aside and look (Wir können nicht daneben stehen und schauen)
While the nation is going down the drain (x2) (Während die Nation kaputt geht)

Up with hope, down with dope (x3)(Hoch mit der Hoffnung - runter mit den Drogen)

We cannot stand aside and look(Wir können nicht daneben stehen und schauen)
While the nation is going down the drain.(Während die Nation kaputt geht)

We really, really cannot stand aside and look while the nation is going down the drain, Oh Yo (Wir können wirklich, wirklich nicht daneben stehen und schauen, während die Nation kaputt geht, Oh Yo)

I am telling you now (Ich sage dir jetzt)
Cocaine, no good for you (Kokain ist nicht gut für dich)
Liquor, no good for you (Likör ist nicht gut für dich)
You go sniffling them glue (??????)
No good for you (nicht gut für dich)
They give it to you and say it's the sense of knowledge (Sie geben es dir und sagen es sei die Essenz des Wissens)
But I known I've been around(A ber ich weiß; ich bin herumgekommen)
For a while( für eine Weile)

I cannot stand aside (Ich kann nicht daneben stehen)
And look while the nation (x2)(Und schauen wie die Nation)
Is going down the drain (kaputt geht)
Oh yo yo yo

Chorus till fade:
Up with hope, down with dope
Hoch mit der Hoffnung, runter mit den Drogen





Lighten your soul and brain and do not follow such nonsense like below in anyhow
Drugs do no remove your bad feelings but increase them more and more
Alcohol does not remove your bad feelings but increase them more and more
Gunja does not remove your bad feelings but increase them more and more
Cigarettes does not remove your bad feelings but increase them more and more


What only helps you further is to believe you are born to be happy.
Pray for release of any darkness in your soul. That is all to do to get rid of bad feelings.

What to say, than only: please let us not follow these evil things which are killing people.