"Walkampf" is a song by Die Toten Hosen

Die Toten Hosen

Die Toten Hosen is a German punk band from Düsseldorf. They have enjoyed decades-long mass appeal in Germany.The band's name literally means "The Dead Pants" in English, although the phrase "tote Hose" is a German expression meaning "nothing going on" or "boring"...

. It's the second single and the thirteenth track from the album Zurück zum Glück

Zurück zum Glück

Zurück zum Glück is the tenth studio album by the German punk band Die Toten Hosen. The cover is designed by Dirk Rudolph.-Track listing:# "Kopf oder Zahl" Zurück zum Glück (Wordplay: Back to happiness/Fortunately back) is the tenth studio album by the German punk band Die Toten Hosen. The cover...

. The title is a pun on the word "Wahlkampf", which means "election campaign" in German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

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The song is about a dream by the narrator, where he finds a whale on a beach and struggles to try and push it back to the water, but doesn't have enough strength for that. All the time, he hears the waves, the sun shouting: "Push the whale back in the sea", which pressures him. He hopes to get help from a Greenpeace

Greenpeace

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, The Netherlands...

 ship he sees, but right before his eyes, it sinks. The next day he has sore muscles and gets under the shower but then his girlfriend urges him to "push the whale back in the sea" and on it goes.

Music video

The music video was directed and drawn by Andreas Hykade

Andreas Hykade

Andreas Hykade is an animation director from Germany. Before studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1988 to 1990, he attended König-Karlmann-Gymnasium Altötting. He worked as an animator in London in 1991, then studied animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg until 1995...

. It entirely illustrates the lyrics.

Track listing

1. "Walkampf" (Frege, van Dannen/van Dannen, Frege) − 3:34
2. "Der letzte Sieg" (The last victory) (Meurer/Frege) - 1:35
3. "Die No.1 von Flingern" (The No.1 of Flingern
   Düsseldorf-Flingern
   Flingern is a former blue-collar borough of Düsseldorf. Located northeast of Düsseldorf , it is divided into two boroughs today: Flingern-Nord and Flingern-Süd....
   
   ) (Frege/Frege) - 3:27 (with Beate Frege)

Charts

Year	Country	Position
2004	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	24
2004	Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...	10
2004	Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....	55