Warum?

The speaker remembers a close friendship that once felt free, trusting, and full of excitement. Over time, the friend becomes involved in increasingly harmful drug use and prostitution to pay a dealer. The speaker feels regret for not confronting the danger sooner, and the repeated questions express grief and helplessness. The song moves from joyful memories to painful loss.

“Uns gehörte die Welt” (“the world belonged to us”) is an expressive way to say the friends felt limitless and in control, not that they literally owned anything. “Der Wind hat sich gedreht” means that circumstances have changed, here for the worse. The refrain’s “falsches Glück” suggests that the brief pleasure or escape from drugs is misleading: it may feel good for a moment, but it brings lasting harm. The speaker’s description of the friend’s eyes as “dead” and “empty” conveys emotional exhaustion and a loss of the person she once knew.

The song presents the speaker’s view of the friend’s decline, so it does not explain everything the friend may have felt or experienced. The repeated “Why?” may ask why she chose this path, but it can also express the speaker’s attempt to make sense of a tragedy with no satisfying answer. “Komm zurück” sounds like a plea for the friend to return, while also acknowledging that she may be gone for good.