Sehnsucht (hunger)
Let me ride out on a tear
Past your chin to Africa
Once more to the she-lion's den
Where I was at home back then
Inbetween your tender long legs
Searching snow from just last year
Never does the snow appear
Let me ride out on a tear
In the clouds there is no bliss
A big bird gently slides his head
Back into a secret crevice
Inbetween your tender long legs
Searching sand from just last year
Never does the sand appear
Hunger connects
Just like an insect
Asleep you never sense
Right as it bites
Nowhere can it be good so
The finger slips to Mexico
Then down it sinks into the sea
Hunger has no mercy
ENGEL
(ANGEL)
Live in virtue, no desire
In the grave an angel«s choir
You look to heaven and wonder why
No one can see them in the sky
Just as the clouds have gone to sleep
Angels can be seen in heavens keep
Alone in fear they question why
Goddamn not an angel when I die
Angels live, they never die
Apart from us , behind the sky
They ´re fading souls who ´ve turned to ice
So ashen white in paradise
Just as the clouds have gone to sleep
Angels can be seen in heaven«s keep
Alone in fear they question why
Goddamn not an angel when I die
TIER
(BEAST)
What is a man
What is a man
Who 's between man and beast?
Can 't seperate the man
What
He will go to his daughter so late
She is young and she 's such sweet bait
Just as if he were a dog
With his own flesh and blood he will mate
What do you
Feel in you?
What are you?
You are a beast!
What is woman
What is woman
Inbetween beast and man?
Can 't seperate the man
She dips the feather in his blood
Writes herself so many lines
A lifeless letter from her childhood
As her father slept by her side
What do you
Feel in you?
What are you?
You are a beast!
BESTRAFE MICH
(PUNISH ME)
Punish me
Punish me
Straw is gold
And gold is stone
You are so big, make me small
You´re the master,
make me crawl
ja
The lord does give
The lord does take
Punish me
Punish me
You say yes
And I say no
Lock me in all you worship
Before the winds cold hand grips
You are so big, make me small
Your the master, make me crawl
Your the master, make me crawl
You are so big, make me small
Your the master, make me crawl
You´re so big you make him small
You will punish me for all
The lord does give
The lord does take
Does he give love to
Those he foresakes?
Punish me
DU HAST
(YOU HATE)
You
You hate
You hate me
You
You hate
You hate me
You hate me to say
You hate me to say
You hate me to say
And I did not obey
Will you until death does sever
Be upright to her forever
Never
Will you 'til death be her rider
Her lover too, to stay inside her
Never
BÜCK DICH
(BEND DOWN)
Bend down I order you
Turning your face back from me too
I don't need to see it now
Bend down
A biped who is on all fours
I'll lead him down on the floor
In quick-step we move along
I'm so displeased
Now crawling backwards to meet me
Honey stains his tights so badly
I'm so displeased, Sadly displeased
Bend down...
I've no interest in the rest
The biped stuttered a short prayer
In fear of what I couldn't bear
Tried to bend down more and more
Tears we're running off to the floor
Bend down...
Bend down I order you
Turning your face back from me too
I don't need to see it now
Bend down, you know how
Bend down...
SPIEL MIT MIR
(PLAY WITH ME)
We share a room and the bed
Brother dear please go right ahead
Brother dear come touch me here
Slide to me so close and near
By the bed a big black hole
In they jump all the sheep
Much too old but I count them still
But I cannot fall asleep
Past my navel in the bush
Waiting there white fantasies
Brother dear come hold me tight
And shake for me leaves from the trees
Play a game with me
Give me your hand and
Play with me - A game
Play with me - A game
Play with me - Cause we´re alone now
Play with me - A game
Father mother child
My brother dear hand in pain
He rolls back over once again
My brother helps me now and then
So that I may sleep again
Play a game with me
Give me your hand and
Play with me - A game
Play with me - A game
Play with me - Cause we´re alone now
Play with me - A game
Father mother child
KLAVIER
(PIANO)
They say to me
Open this door
Curiosity screams
Whatever could it be
Back behind that door
A piano
The keys are all dusty
The strings are all untuned
Back behind that door
At the piano
But she plays no more
It is so long ago
On the piano
She's who I hear
She began to play
She took my breath away
She said to me too
That I'll stay with you
But it just seemed to be
She played alone for me
I poured her blood
In the fire of my rage
I locked up her shrine
They questioned in time
At the piano
She's who I hear
She began to play
She took my breath away
At the piano
I stand by her
But it just seemed to be
She played alone for me
They opened up the door
And how they cried
i heard her mother plea
Her father struck out at me
They tore her from her chair
No one believed me there
I was so insane
With the stench and the pain
At the piano
She's who I hear
She began to play
She took my breath away
At the piano
She's who I hear
As I began to play
I took her breath away
ALTER MANN
(THE OLD MAN)
He's waiting for the midday wind
And waves spread out so dull and slack
And with a hand fan every day
The old man smooths the water back
I cast a stone in just for fun
The water rings moved on the plane
So sadly stood the old man by
And swept the water flat again
In white sand the old man sat
Trembling as he smoked his pipe
Just the water and I know that
The fan is of a special type
Awareness sleeps volcano dreams
Reluctant I asked him why
His head hung low as if he slept
And the he said before he died
The water will be your only mirror
First when it's like glass can you see
How many fairytales you have left
For your deliverance you will plead
The fan was pressed to his breast
Just as death's grip seized up his hand
His fingers must have been so tight
The fan remained back in the sand
I call the old man every day
Should he come and deliver me
I stay here with the midday wind
And in the fan it is plain to read
The water will...
EIFERSUCHT
(JEALOUSY)
Am I pretty
Then cut me in the face
Am I stronger
Break my neck in disgrace
Am I smarter
Kill me and eat my brain
I take your wife
Kill me and eat me all up
Just eat me all up
Am I honest
Then bite my tongue right off
Am I richer
Then take it all
Am I braver
Kill me and eat my heart
I take your wife
Kill me and eat me all up
Just eat me all up
And lick the table clean
We're cooking jealousy
Have I such tender skin
Tear it out in stripes
Have i the clearest eyes
Steal all the light
Have I the purest soul
Burn it in the flames
I take your wife then
Kill me and eat me all up
Just eat me all up
And lick the table clean
We're cooking jealousy
KÜSS MICH [FELLFROSCH]
(KISS ME [FURRY FROG])
She keeps very still
To be fingered is all she will
Swelling in the dried out grass
Her misty eyes fill up fast
She's captured and can't breakaway
Never sees the light of the day
With lustful shivers as she pleads
The tongues of men to serve her needs
Kiss me
She bites in every tongue so tight
To be licked is what she likes
But as it leaves a bitter taste
She is seldom just embraced
She's captured...
Kiss me
The tongue slides out from the mouth
And slaps her wild in ecstasy
Hard and long right up front
She bleeds so badly from her snout
She's captured....
Kiss me
on my moistened lips
Kiss me
With it's bitter taste
Kiss me
*~~~~*
© RAMMSTEIN 1997,1998
translation by Rob Hoare
Come with me
into the trees
we lay on the grass
and let hours pass
take my hand
come back to the land
lets get away
just for one day
let me see you stripped (x2)
metro police
has nothing on this
you breathing in fumes
i tastes when we kiss
take my hand
come back to the land
where everythings ours
for a few hours
let me see you stripped (x2)
let me hear you make decisions
without your television
let me hear you speaking just for me
let me see you stripped (x2)
let me hear you make decisions
without your television
let me hear you speaking just for me
let me see you stripped (x4)
