Rammstein Ich Tu Dir Weh lyric with English translation
Nur für mich bist du am Leben Ich steck dir Orden ins Gesicht Du bist mir ganz und gar ergeben Du liebst mich denn ich lieb' dich nicht Du blutest für mein Seelenheil Ein kleiner Schnitt und du wirst geil Der Körper - schon total entstellt Egal, erlaubt ist, was gefällt Ich tu' dir weh. Tut mir nicht Leid! Das tut dir gut. Hör wie es schreit! Bei dir habe ich die Wahl der Qual Stacheldraht im Harnkanal Leg dein Fleisch in Salz und Eiter Erst stirbst du doch dann lebst du weiter Bisse, Tritte, harte Schläge Nadel, Zangen, stumpfe Säge Wünsch' dir was, ich sag nicht nein Und führ' dir Nagetiere ein Ich tu' dir weh. Tut mir nicht Leid! Das tut dir gut. Hör wie es schreit! Ich tu' dir weh. Tut mir nicht Leid! Es tut dir gut. Hör wie es schreit! Du bist das Schiff, ich der Kapitän Wohin soll denn die Reise geh'n? Ich seh' im Spiegel dein Gesicht Du liebst mich denn ich lieb' dich nicht Ich tu' dir weh. Tut mir nicht Leid! Das tut dir gut. Hört wie es schreit! Ich tu' dir weh. Tut mir nicht Leid! Das tut dir gut. Hör wie es schreit! Ich tu' dir weh. Tut mir nicht Leid! Das tut dir gut. Hör wie's schreit! Lyric © Rammstein |
You’re only alive for me I put medals into your face You are entirely devoted to me You love me because I don’t love you You bleed for my salvation A small cut and you’re horny The body – already totally distorted It doesn’t matter, whatever pleases is allowed I hurt you I’m not sorry It does you good Hear how it screams! With you I have the choice of torment* Barbed wire in the urethral tract Put your flesh in salt and pus First you die but then you live on Bites, kicks, hard blows Needle, pliers, blunt saw What you wish, I don’t say no And insert rodents into you I hurt you I’m not sorry It does you good Hear how it screams I hurt you I’m not sorry It does you good Hear how it screams You are the ship, I’m the captain Where should this journey go I see your face in the mirror You love me because I don’t love you I hurt you I’m not sorry It does you good Hear how it screams I hurt you I’m not sorry It does you good Hear how it screams I hurt you I’m not sorry It does you good Hear how it screams Translation © Affenknecht.com |
Submitted by EinHeisserSchrei
Translation Notes:
* Inversion of the German collocation “die Qual der Wahl haben” (the torment of choice, means to be spoilt for choice)
64 Responses to “Rammstein Ich Tu Dir Weh lyric with English translation”
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12:18 pm on October 17th, 2009very good song
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12:51 pm on October 17th, 2009This is definitely my favourite on this album.. Very good song- great rhythm, and even better melody! Rammstein forever!
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7:31 pm on October 17th, 2009Damn this song is Good!!
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Tim komlody
5:00 am on October 18th, 2009ich liebe diese lied!!!! ich hast ein groß sehnsucht für rammstein !!!!!!!!!
This song and haifisch (shark) are my favorites… The whole album is murderous!!!! -
PAVEL
8:19 pm on October 18th, 2009LOve this song absolutely hardcore
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Chrystal
9:46 am on October 20th, 2009my favorite song off the album! it so perfect and flowing, but so sexy and strong! while also being dark, like Till himself!!!!
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3:33 pm on October 20th, 2009One of my favorite songs of the new album! I hurt you, I m not sorry!!!
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3:59 pm on October 20th, 2009The whole album is very ass-kicking! The SE version’s tracks are perfect too, especielly “Führe mich”. OMG, Rammstein made the best AGAIN!
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MHansen
8:22 pm on October 20th, 2009The song is about self mutilation, as far as I can gather. The protagonist is viewing himself in the mirror, goading himself to worse forms of torment.
Fantastic song, feel good hit of the year
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1:40 am on October 22nd, 2009MHANSEN The song can be also about a man/woman how don’t love his couple and is with he/she just for the pleasure of hurt him/her and she/he like to be torment. Your interpretation is very good too, very dark. Till have proof one more time that he is a poet, his lyrcis are always extremely mysterious and have too many interpretations, I do not know how he have the talent of writing such ambiguous lyrics, is simply amazing.
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Bigtimefan
9:07 am on October 22nd, 2009I feel like its about s&m, as well as some dominatrix shit. I could be wrong, but i only came up with this cause i mean… they are rammstein lol
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7:52 pm on October 24th, 2009for me is that song about a hc fetish sex…
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Storm46
2:12 pm on October 25th, 2009I think It’s about domination in a sexual sense and in a relationship sense. One person likes to be an abuser and the other one likes to be abused.
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3:45 pm on October 27th, 2009I agree: it’s about domination & abuse. that’s ok, everybody’s free to feel whatever it suits the person. But what about when the abuser finds the wrong “victim” who doesn’t like to be abused? what about abusers who are so stubborn in abusing persons who don’t agree being abused? An abuser’s strategy may be so complicated… For those who like abusing non-willing-to be abused victims I guess it might be a warning here…the abuser must find the right person to form the “perfect” couple and this is their bussines, but they should leave others alone to be as free as they are. Or else
So I guess this song may teach us to behave in our way when and if we are permitted to. -
Hyde
1:28 pm on November 1st, 2009I was first little confused about these “Nagetiere”, then I have recalled the case of two homosexuals – one of them “inserted” a hamster into his boyfriend’s arse, though he wasn’t able to take it out, so he took a lighter to better see it. Gases in guts immolated and the hamster was fired out of the hole. I know it sounds little stupid, but it’s a famous story, at least here, in middle Europe..
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Jackie
6:40 am on November 4th, 2009This song reminded me a lot of 120 Days of Sadom by Marquis De Sade.
Warning, you really have to have a very strong will to read this. I was upset for a few days after reading the torments, and I’m not that easily upset by fiction. However, it did also help me understand where concepts, like the one for the Saw films come from.
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6:08 pm on November 8th, 2009Zweite Zeile ist falsch: Ich steck dir ORDERN ins Gesicht
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7:11 am on November 16th, 2009I do agree on the S&M and dominatrix meaning but like AdlerWolf said there could be many meanings and has anyone thought that is could be about putting someone through hell so it make them stronger… yet another meaning that could be gathered from the lyrics… but i do have to say Till Lindermann is one of the most gifted song writers in the world!
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Antachrist
4:37 am on November 21st, 2009God and his follower, punishment for following/love.
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Nebel
5:07 am on November 24th, 2009“Ich steck dir Orden ins Gesicht.”
With respect because I am not a German expert, but I do not think “I put medals into your face” is the correct translation. I think it means I stick Mein Teil in your face along with orders to service it and accept all that comes from it. Maybe not exact words, but this longer interpretation is closer, I think, as Rammstein uses elegant imagery. Most of the people here do not understand the BDSM D/s world. This song is not about self mutilation, it is one sadistic, dominate person doing things to a masochistic submissive. They are both willing participants….. Think of the story that Mein Teil was about. A young man cut his genitals off and offered them for a romantic supper along with his life to please the Master Butcher.What a great song for an album that is titled “There is love for everyone”
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8:24 pm on November 24th, 2009“Ich tut dir weh” is better translated as “I do you harm”. It sounds better with the song that way, too.
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7:01 am on November 25th, 2009With respect to my poor German and much better English, I believe “I hurt you” is a better way to express this than “I harm you”. If I were a Dominate singing this song to my submissive as I stick Mein Teil in her face and order her to service and accept all it has to offer, I would surely sing ” I hurt you” rather than much tamer “I harm you”. Try it the other way and you would get your ass beaten and made to be the bitch. Real life 24-7, how it is.
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Greg
2:36 am on December 5th, 2009I think there’s a typo in the lyric booklet. I think ‘Orden’ should be ‘Ordern’ meaning ‘Orders’ not ‘Medal’ …but knowing Rammstein this is probably some ambiguous meaning I haven’t discovered yet
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Taryn
1:03 am on December 7th, 2009I think that “orden” can be translated to “order” just as well as medal. Of course, it depends on the context. So, I think “I stick your order in your face” makes more sense. An order being an order of duty, seeing as it is the submissive’s responsibility to take care of what is stuck in their face. Not physically to go through the face, but in front of.
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Ren
1:31 am on December 8th, 2009My favorite on the album by far!! I love the way Till sings on this one, espacially during the chorus. It is so beautiful to hear. He has a strong and present voice but soft at the same time *sighs* I wish one day i’ll be able to see them play this one live among many many more!!
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2:10 am on December 8th, 2009Yeah, I’m pretty sure the context is S+M though, so to ’stick/shove the orders in your face’ would make more sense. I only thought it might be a typo as it definitely sounds like Till is singing ‘ordern’.
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Ikke
12:03 am on December 14th, 2009About the ‘Nagetiere’ again:
I study Psychology, and there is one famous story about the ‘Rat man’: It’a man that Freud had in therapy, and the man had horrific fantasy’s about wrapping a jar of rats onto his father’s buttox, and the only way out for the rats was.. wel.. eating a way out through his ass.
Maybe it has something to do with that. It’s a bit more violent than the hamster story, though that was a funny story too.
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RichardGere
3:19 am on December 17th, 2009About the ‘Nagetiere’-issue:
This is a well known urban legend called ‘gerbiling’, even wikipedia knows about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerbiling
Rammstein are not the first ones in pop culture who make a reference to this legend. For example there is a scene in the John Waters movie ‘Cecil B. Demented’ showing this practice. I’m sure there is also a ‘Drawn Together’ episode where you can see the gay one (Xandir?) pooping out a hamster. There may be a lot of other examples, but i’m too lazy to search for them now
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Bebby879
10:21 am on December 21st, 2009Wow Ididnt Expext the translation to be that strong
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2:06 pm on December 23rd, 2009I believe this song could be taken in 3 almost opposite directions. One would be the S&M many have stated. The second as a few I have read have also stated could be that one likes to abuse and the other likes the abuse. But the third (which has happend to me) could be that you fall inlove with someone that doesn’t love you back. You upset them and they hurt you emotionally and physically and think of different ways that they could do stuff like that to you. They hurt you just because you are there. Then you follow every word they say to a tee and nearly boarder on obsession in the way that you think of. They finally realize that someone did that to them in a previous relationship type deal and they think that that behaviour is the right way to solve it but when they see that it was wrong they can’t stop. So they continue to hurt. I had it happen to me I don’t hurt back though but I got out of that and now my life is better and if any of you guys or girls are going through that read and see what I said getting out of it might be your best choice.
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5:38 am on January 26th, 2010I am confused about ; Ich seh im Spiegel dein Gesicht, mayby he is looking to himself (???), so self-mutilation is possible to?! Has the person multiple personalities?
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Anna
3:32 pm on February 7th, 2010I think it’s about a dentist.
‘Medals’ could be fillings, the choices of torture ‘the blunt saw’ ‘needles and pliers’ etc are the dentist’s tools. The ‘I see your face in the mirror’ bit, dentists use mirrors to look into your mouth.
Think about the chorus. ‘I hurt you’ obviously having your teeth drilled hurts; ‘I’m not sorry’ because it’s his job; ‘It does you good’ well obviously it’s better than your teeth rotting and falling out, and ‘Hear it scream’ think about the noise a drill makes-it screams.
I’m not sure though, I was always told off in English literature. ‘Anna, although I appreciate that you have the ability to read between the lines, perhaps you are looking too deep. Try not to let your imagination take over when annotating these poems in your exam’
Either way, Rammstein’s music is awesome, and Till’s poetry is both clever and beautiful
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12:50 pm on February 11th, 2010@Anna:
As a teacher, I think your English teacher broke one of the most important rules of poetry analysis; that the truth is in the eye of the beholder. I think your analysis is great and funny. For one thing, you back your points with quotations, and it holds. secondly, if this was indeed the intended meaning of the song, it would make the censorship actions taken by the German minisiter of family, even more hillarious and stupid(although the pointers back in german history, with forbidden songs is frightening).
I wish I had more students who were able to think in different patterns, like you can.
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2:35 pm on February 17th, 2010Hi guys,
a short explanation about the “Nagetiere” – thing!
In the 60s-70s in England a thing came up in the homosexual scene to buy e.g. rats, mice, etc. in Pet shops.
They took the animals claws to be sure not to get hurt and then they have been placing them into their own (or their partners) arses ! Never thought about the term “Pet Shop Boys” ! Grtz
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rammoholic
2:38 am on February 27th, 2010When I saw this song live .. I cried. It was soooo awesome!! I was like, screaming until my throat got too sore to scream anymore! I repeat: IT WAS AWESOME !!! <3
R+ forever ! -
Lewis Friend
12:59 pm on February 28th, 2010This song is actually awful. Not only are the lyrics quite sad and slightly disgusting, the “music” itself could have been written by a 3 year old. The band clearly have some unresolved issues with their parents, and their own self esteam.
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1:55 am on March 1st, 2010@Lewis: Der….read-Till was abused by his alcoholic father and his mother put up with it for years. For abused people it is therapeutic to talk/sing/get their feelings out. This is why(I think) some of Rammstein’s music is so dark and why a lot of their songs deal with abuse in one form or another.
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7:48 am on March 2nd, 2010skimming through some of your all, s&m seems way off, it is about multalation, about to the point of snuff sex and necaphela(i know i didn’t spell it right, sex with a dead person). reading it, it sounds like a lyrical verson of a snuff film. i’m not trying to piss everyone off, i love the song, real dark and a little to freaky for me. barbed wire in the urethra? oww, never even had a cathiter. and rodent in you? yeah, someone likes it weird. i also listen to death and black metal, and this one is up there
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10:31 pm on March 12th, 2010This stuff is about puting song writer in mental hospital in strait jacket .I will be honest.Person who writes lyric like that must be locked up in mental clinic.This guy needs strait jacket and he should be locked up in room for special people with wires and bottle in his urethra.This is not about S&M at all.Agagagagagaga.This guy is sick.He needs to be in jail or mental hospital.This is very awful song.He very dangerous person for society.
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7:41 pm on March 18th, 2010Drugsarebad, you clearly fail to understand the point in poetry. If you read some of the great poets’ work like Carol Ann Duffy, there is some very ’sick’ material in their poems. The idea is to use metaphors, similes, bla bla bla to create an emotion or send a message. It’s not supposed to be LITERALLY about barbed wire in the urethra tract, that could be symbollic for the pain of love, or for a sexual disease, or for a great feeling of pain, or anything. It’s all in the analysis, and you shouldn’t be locked up for writing poetry, it’s the people who carry things out that should
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4:28 am on March 19th, 2010yep these things assosiated with pain.but i wouldn’t call this guy normal.I wouldn’t talk to a guy who will put barbered wires in my urethral tract.I think this guy needs medical attention.And by the way,I want to see him in a starit jacket in a mental hospital far away from planet earth.I think with this he wrote poem about holocoust.Cuz he really knows who he is and what kind of pleasure he feels from pain like that.He is not honest german sadist.I think something he trying to hide.Like his very not good german sadism.German people are vey bad sadists if you know what I mean.Stuff like that.It’s in their blood.
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4:45 am on March 19th, 2010If you are from Sweden.I’m not a huge fan of german language.Pee Wee Gomez is your dad.
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2:10 pm on March 20th, 2010‘German people are vey bad sadists if you know what I mean.Stuff like that.It’s in their blood.’
That’s called RACISM mr or mrs drugsrbad.
If youre talking about the Holocaust, the nazis were very evil people, but that’s not to say that EVERY german person is or ever has been a nazi, and it’s very unfair to suggest it. that’s exactly what the nazis did about the jews.
and you still dont get it, the song isnt LITERALLY about putting barbed wire or rodents into you, it’s METAPHORICAL.
i dont really understand why you would look up the english lyrics to this song if 1. your first language isn’t english, and 2. you don’t like rammstein or till lindemann :s
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Léon
4:11 pm on March 20th, 2010Well now we are talking!
It’s because they are from Germany???
Well i now some facts in history that would make A. Hitler say;
“Also also!”
Drugsarebad, the things you say are worse then the lyrics from Rammstein with one difference, you mean everything you write…
I think you are very dangerous.
Wish you a nice weekend -
AnGermanBadass
10:41 pm on March 25th, 2010So at first Rammstein 4 Ever.
Here is a “very Bad German Boy” …. German peoples are all bad…. ahaahah dont joke me. The Holocaust is past and with that has the most people now nothing to do. thy were all blind in past about hope were not hope to find it and what they have done is not to Mercy… but
its 65 years since the war is end, and the world should look to a better Future and not to our bad Past.We are all so same but in the end so different. make your life happy or it will be run away faster as you can see. (;
at last.
Ich hoffe das mein english einiger maßen verständlich ist. xD
Nice greets from germany. ^^
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Ghoulishgirl
3:38 am on April 3rd, 2010Ok, why does Nazism have to come up every time a German does ANYTHING? This song is about sadistic and masochistic behaviour, possibly self-inflicted. It’s not about the Holocaust, or Hitler, or the Jews, or anything to do with WWII.
I personally enjoy how Till writes his lyrics to be intentionally ambiguous. You get out of it what you put into it. They might have twisted imaginations, but don’t we all? They just make a fortune from theirs. More power to him. No different from the sfx makeup artists on Saw (who are all lovely guys and only slightly twisted). -
Jimi
9:25 am on April 23rd, 2010This is probably Rammstein’s best song off their new album.
My German isn’t that great though, but I’ll know the entire song soon enough. One of the reasons that I like this song so much is it’s catchy and easy to sing along to, even if you don’t speak German. -
2:44 pm on April 24th, 2010Maybe this song is about self mutilation on a mental level. I have met a few people myself who seemed so obsessed with hating who they are that it becomes an obsession. It would almost seem like they actually enjoy it too. We all have our inner demons but some people tend to criticize themselves more than others. Take for example a girl who sees models on the television. She then starts critcizing herself for not having a perfect body, so to solve this she then becomes bulimic in hopes that she will one day be perfect.
In the end maybe this song isn’t about physical violence but mental instead.
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Mimz
6:22 am on May 7th, 2010This is my new favorite song for the time being, and I love the lyrics.
…except the rodents part. That was ewie.
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Charismatic Enigma
6:14 am on May 20th, 2010A thought comes to mind:
“Ich steck’ dir Orden, ins Gesicht” — the speaker is congratulating the person whom he is torturing (whether it be himself or someone else) and honoring him with a medal… which he jams right into his victim’s face. This seems, to me, to fit in with the depravity of the whole thing.
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Burritto
12:57 am on June 2nd, 2010I’m sure it’s just me, but the first 5 notes of this song always make me hear “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” in my head. I’m not comparing Tears For Fears to Rammstein, of course, since after those initial notes the song takes off and is the best song of the album.
And I agree that the song is about S&M. It could be metaphorical, but S&M is all we can get from the lyrics.
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12:08 pm on June 11th, 2010Incredible song! Even if it is about S&M it points out real feelings, a thing I love about music. One dedicated Rammstein fan <3
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Crysor
2:59 pm on June 11th, 2010Can anyone tell me what lenses Till is wearing? Are those white/ silver white out/ zombie? please leave a reply.
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10:24 pm on June 24th, 2010i think that the medal part means that the writer is inserting seine teil in the other persons mouth, but the writer is so “proud” of his thing, that he calls it a medal/trophie…
now, i think it could be talking of just one person, cause it never specifies that there are 2 different ppl there, and just to mention, i’ve seen a guy to put his own dick in his mouth and eat his cum in a movie, yeah it was horrible, but since then i knew that that was possible, so the first part i explained could be also done by one single person to himself -
12:14 pm on July 11th, 2010this is the best song from the last album
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Anastazia
7:31 pm on July 12th, 2010The best song on this album.This lyrics with Till’s voice….what can I say ?
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8:38 pm on July 15th, 2010How is ‘tut mir nicht leid’ im not sorry, when leid is ’song’?
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4:23 pm on July 19th, 2010Could it be that we’re limiting ourselves to direct perception in the lyrics? Doesn’t Till use abstract symbolism in his messages? What if this song is about how the devil works…the demon runs the ship…the man allowed him aboard. People can want evil in their lives, and don’t see where it leads them.
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6:29 pm on July 20th, 2010Leid is not song
Lied is songSo it’s correct; tut mir nicht leid means; i am not sorry..
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Legio
6:33 pm on July 20th, 2010I wouldn’t mess with religion here.. There are not many songs where Till’s message is religious anyway..
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10:53 pm on August 4th, 2010i’ve been using a translator tool from firefox — it helps a lot- my god they’re so moving that i’m learning german to understand better. i didn’t know they were so amazing!
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7:07 am on August 15th, 2010Wow, I certainly believe this song is about extreme self-performed masochism…
You are entirely devoted to me (it’s your own body)
You love me because I don’t love you (masochists hate their bodies)
You bleed for my salvation (masochists like to see their bodies’ suffer)
A small cut and you’re horny (this also supports above)
It doesn’t matter, whatever pleases is allowed (more self-harm = better)Also, you’re the ship and I’m the captain (ship = body, captain = mind)
From now some people might think it’s masochism along with sadism, but…
I see your face in the mirror… it’s yourself
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6:18 pm on August 15th, 2010this…is….so…awesome
I never expected anything like this after Rosenrot
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Shadow
6:47 am on August 22nd, 2010dude that is awsum. Im a musician myself and i TOTALLY get this song. Its a stab (heh heh… stab) at popular social belief. the Idea of masochism is often rejected and treated with disgust. Yet that is EXACTLY what human behavior is today. What rammstein does, as-well as Marilyn Manson, is expose the worst human mentality. They cause discomfort on purpose because no one listens otherwise, and they do it with some kick ass metal XD. They bring on the shock factor. If you take the lyrics literally and act on um, well A). you probably shouldn’t be listening to them or B). your an idiot and you do it anyway. Leave art to the open minded!!
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Till Lindemann
vocals
Date of birth: January 4, 1963
Place of birth: Leipzig -
Richard Kruspe
guitar
Date of birth: June 24, 1967
Place of birth: Wittenberg -
Paul Landers
guitar
Date of birth: December 9, 1964
Place of birth: Berlin -
Oliver Riedel
bass
Date of birth: April 11, 1971
Place of birth: Schwerin -
Christian Lorenz
keyboard
Date of birth: Nov 16, 1966
Place of birth: Berlin -
Christoph Schneider
drums
Date of birth: May 11, 1966
Place of birth: Berlin
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