Du bist mir ans Herz gewachsen Wenn ich blute hast du Schmerzen Wir müssen uns kennen Ein Körper, zwei Namen Nichts kann uns trennen Ein Zweilaib im Samen Wenn du weinst, geht es mir gut Die Hand deiner Angst, füttert mein Blut Führe mich, halte mich Ich fühle dich, ich verlass Dich nicht Du bist mir ans Herz gebaut Zwei Seelen spannen eine Haut Und wenn ich rede bist du still Du stirbst wenn ich es will Wenn du weinst schenke ich dir Kinder der Angst, Tränen von mir Führe mich, halte mich Ich fühle dich, ich verlass Dich nicht Zwei Bilder nur ein Rahmen Ein Körper doch zwei Namen Zwei Dochte eine Kerze Zwei Seelen in einem Herzen Führe mich, halte mich Ich führe dich, ich verlass Dich nicht Lyric © Rammstein |
You have grown in my heart When I bleed you have pains We must know ourselves One body, two names Nothing can disunite us A twinbody in semen If you cry, it’s okay with me The hand of your fear, feeds my blood Lead me, hold me I feel you, I won’t abandon you You are constructed at my heart Two souls span one skin And when I speak you are silent You die when I want When you cry, I give to you Children of fear, tears from me Lead me, hold me I feel you, I won’t abandon you Two pictures, only one frame One body, yet two names Two wicks, one candle Two souls in one heart Lead me, hold me I lead you, I won’t abandon you Translation © Affenknecht.com |
It’s fucking awesome just as the resf of the songs and the previous albums.Like Pink Floyd describes the deep positive feelings of human soul , Rammstein does the contrary.They remind us how cruel animal the human is…
All Heil to Rammstein!
This song, more than previous ones, reminds me of Laibach’s “Sympathy for the Devil”… Till’s vocal is just a phenomenon here.
Correction:
Zweilaib/twinloaf:
In German, there’s “Leib” and “Laib”. Number two means loaf, number one means body.
In this case, number one is right.
Split personality?
It reminds me of a wedding tradition where two candles light a unity candle to show the unity that is suppose to bring between two individuals. It also reminds me of those halloween pictures where you look one way and it’s normal and you look the other way and it’s a psychotic animal:) The whole body thing sounds like a very interesting form of communion to me;)
well being a romantic that i am i actually thought it was about soul mates for some reason. the thought of it talking about one single person didnt even came across… heheh but totally kick ass song! i think it might actually be my favorite especially for the vocal parts ..beautiful! very dark and deep^^
You be romantic, I’ll be practical. I stopped believing in those a long time ago; we create our own reality. If we wish for someone to be close on that level and they are like-minded, it will happen. That is the law of relativity. The real twin and soul mate is yourself. If you can’t fall in love with the reflection in the mirror, how can you feel anything real for anyone else?
because then you will be blinded to anyone but yourself. isnt thats what love is? makes you care unconditionally for that one person?
and i think ill stay a romantic its a more fun way to live. hope is the last thing that dies
Maybe it’s silly, but first my imagination while reading translation was – Siamese twins…
Yeah, Till’s vocal here is unbelievable!
I think it’s just about siamese twins
PavleG
haven’t seen your message while i was posting… I’m happy tha I’m not alone with this “strage” idea
i love this song, i love the album. haha the first time, when i heard the song i thought that it was ghost, or somekind of deamon, wich was in the person
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Rammstein forever!
for me, this song is also about siamese twins. i’m 90% sure Till also meant siamese twins.
and like stated above; twinloaf is mistake. Zweilaib is litterly a “two-body”
It refers to duality of personality. You have a persona you operate within day to day and then their is your darker half you keep hidden. Two inseperable halves of the same being. ego and id.
I agree with Spare201, it definitely seems to be the personality to me. If it were siamese twins, wouldn’t they both be able to speak? Maybe I’m looking at the lyrics too much.
IMO, it is too obivious that the song is about siamese twins. Too obivious to be true. You have to thing about it longer to see that it is about personality.
This sounds extremely familiar to Spiel Mit Mir, in Live Aus Berlin.
I think it is like how it is with smeagol and that other weird creature in Lord of the Rings!
Most of the time the songs are about things that are more ‘common’ than, for example, the siamese-twins!
Hm… this makes me think Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde..
If it were about a split personality “two names” Would be too corny for rammstein. i have to go with the siamese twins theory, a twin body in semen? sounds to real to be a split personality
definitely about siamese twins. LOve the album. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL RAMMSTEIN FANS MAY YOU LIVE LONG AND SUPPORT RAMMSTEIN TO THE END!
RAMMSTEIN IST FUR ALLE DA!!
Opposed to “Ein Zweilaib im Samen”, I hear more of “Ein Zweileib im zahmen” meaning a tame or controlled “zweileib”. Zweileib meaning what a previous commenter said, literally translating to a “two-body”. Seems to fit the song.
I support the Siamese twin idea.. very good music. Cause of them i wanna learn Deutch.
My first reaction was siamese twins also,
the “two-names” translation kinda gives it away, plus i think it’s refering to how hard it must be for people born as siamese twins and touches on some of the emotions that may be experienced, such as…
“And when I speak you are silent,
You die when I want”
- could possibly mean something like “when i talk, you shut up” which could refer to the two twins trying to compete for attention. Despite how much they love each other, they feel bitter towards each other too, maybe they resent each other sometimes because they wish they could be alone but can’t because they are connected.
That’s just what I thought anyways, lol
Very cool song!
Just a little correction:
Du bist mir ans Herz gewachsen should be
You are so precious/dear to me
Great Band, great music! Sie halten niemals ein!
P.S. the zwei-leib concept reminds me of Bückstabü:
Zwei Seelen ‘ach in meinem Schoß,
es kann nur eine überleben!
and a little bit of ITDW:
Ich seh’ im Spiegel dein Gesicht
Rammstein is never easy
This is not just about Siamese twins– it could be about vanishing twins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_twin
Du bist mir ans Herz gebaut
Zwei Seelen spannen eine Haut
Und wenn ich rede bist du still
Du stirbst wenn ich es will
That last line in especial veers me in this direction.
Any idea who’s on the backing vocals?
Kruspe or Landers?…
I ask this as the backing vocals are quite prominent and sung beautifully too!
Well, i think that song has some political background.
I feel song has something about two German splited states. What do you think??
Ivaan: Maybe, but R+ try to avoid political themes.
Siamese twins, split personality? – perhaps…
But I think it’s about a symbiotic union, or immature love, like Erich Fromm described it, please read so you can understand:
The Art of Loving
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24547494/Erich-Fromm-the-Art-of-Loving (p. 19-21)
Die Kunst des Liebens
http://www.scribd.com/doc/87427/Erich-Fromm-Die-Kunst-des-Liebens (S. 36-38)
I think this is Rammstein’s version of a love song – with minimal schmaltz. (And some baffling lyrics that could mean they did not have that much time to fine-tune it or maybe not many words rhyme with “Namen”?) Could possibly be interpreted as: if anything’s going to happen here, you’re going to have to take the lead.
The song reminds me of these words by Milan Kundera:
Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.
Siamese twins partially makes sense, however: Du bist mir ans Herz gebaut\You are constructed at my heart. This means that the thing he is talking about isn’t a physical being. Based on this line, I’d go with the split personality… Let’s not also forget that siamese twins is too obvious: That is NOT how Rammstein work….
@Udeeksh: Definitely Till.
@Kazzandra: Excellent idea – it sounds like one twin is trying to keep the other alive, and states that the other has ‘grown inside’ him. I think that’s another likely explanation.
@Rammstein7: True, R+ often aren’t obvious, although alot of songs on this album are: Rammlied – a tribute to themselves, Wiener Blut – the Fritzl case, Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da – inrequitted love, rape. Also, they must be twins because they are a “twinbody in semen”, suggesting they are in the same womb, with the same father.
“Ein Zweilaib im Samen” Joined by semen… Hense, the same person, if this song was about split personality that reference wouldn’t be necessary.
“Du bist mir ans Herz gebaut
Zwei Seelen spannen eine Haut”
Two souls span one skin. Two people in one body, that’s what confuses people, but if you refer to the reference I just made above, Rammstein seems to be alluding more in a physical sense than a metaphorical one, you can’t really make a metaphor out of the word “semen”.
“Two pictures, only one frame
One body, yet two names”
Two people in one frame, that’s a dead giveaway. This songs about simese twins, not split personalities. If it were about split personalities, there’d be more metaphorical references rather than blatantly saying things like “joined at the heart, joined by semen, etc”.
@RAMMSPIELER
“Also, they must be twins because they are a “twinbody in semen”, suggesting they are in the same womb, with the same father.”
& RAMMKRIEG:
“Ein Zweilaib im Samen” Joined by semen… Hense, the same person, if this song was about split personality that reference wouldn’t be necessary.
- I disagree, don’t you know what an allegory is? It’s just a figurative expression… don’t take it literally.
I guess no one read the links of Erich Fromm’s book I posted before, so I’ll retell it quick (sorry for grammatical mistakes or bad expression, English is not my mother tongue)
I think the song is about this:
SYMBIOTIC UNION
biological union: Mother-Child – they’re two, yet one; they need each other.
psychological union: the bodies are independent, but they depend on each other psychically.
PASSIVE FORM OF THE SYMBIOTIC UNION = masochism; the masochist escapes the unbearable feeling of isolation by attaching himself, and making himself part of another person, that is leading and protecting him, that is so to speak his life, and without that person he can’t live. The masochist is nothing but a part of the person that he is submitting himself to. That way he becomes a part of the person’s greatness, might and security. The masochist is taking no decisions, he is never alone and never independent.
ACTIVE FORM OF THE SYMBIOTIC UNION = sadism; control of another person. The sadist escapes his loneliness by attaching another person. The sadist is dependent on the person who is worshiping him, the same like that person is dependent of the sadist; They can’t live without each other.
The only difference is that the sadist is commanding, using and humiliating the masochist, while the masochist is letting himself be commanded, used and humiliated.
- Both forms are unions without independence and integrity.
I thought this song was about when to people have sex they are “one”
Yeah, DarkFairy003, I think it’s as simple as that.
My favourite song on the album, after Wiener Blut.
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