"Ich kann nicht, wenn jemand zuschaut"

There are European elections coming up. In the UK; you'd be hard-pressed to tell, but in Germany street furniture festooned with party political advertising.

Here's an amusing advert from the Pirate Party. The legend reads "I can't, when there someone watching." (The reference, for anyone who doesn't get it, is to Brussels' most famous statue, the Manneken Pis.)

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Classical/pop-rock linguistic connection

Did you know that if you translate

from German to its English cognate, you end up with:

or, alternatively,

?