Deeply feeling and so pious
On his wall Our Lord is nailed
He wipes pollution from the Bible
He gives Communion without fail
He loves all the choir boys
With their souls so pure and clear
But the tenor gives him pause
So he has to keep him near
On the nightstand, not a sound
Our Lord's image
Is turned slowly 'round
When the church clock strikes the hour
[Hallelujah]
He folds his hands and knees in prayer
[Hallelujah]
He's a single clergyman
[Hallelujah]
So he must share his love as he can
[Hallelujah]
The youth is allowed to stay
Sin nests at half his height
Reverend Father kneels to pray
To music and candlelight
When the church clock strikes the hour
[Hallelujah]
He folds his hands and knees in prayer
[Hallelujah]
He's a single clergyman
[Hallelujah]
So he must share his love as he can
[Hallelujah]
When the church clock strikes the hour
[Hallelujah]
He folds his hands and knees in prayer
[Hallelujah]
He is a true Christian
[Hallelujah]
Charity no mystery to him
[Hallelujah]
Turn slowly around
Turn around
[lyrics][discuss]
I feel dirty.
2009-07-30
2009-07-26
LILT: Halleluja 1.0
Ah, yes, you can count on Rammstein to have tackled this one:
He's deeply feeling and pious
On his wall Our Lord is nailed
He wipes blemishes from the Bible
He gives Communion without fail
He loves all the choir boys
All their souls kept so clear
But the tenor gives him pause
So he has to keep him near
On the nightstand, not a sound
God's image
He turns it slowly 'round
When the church clock strikes the hour
[Hallelujah]
He folds his hands and knees in prayer
[Hallelujah]
He is still an unmarried man
[Hallelujah]
So he must give his love as he can
[Hallelujah]
The youth is allowed to stay
Sin nests at half his height
So he gets down to pray it away
To music and candlelight
When the church clock strikes the hour
[Hallelujah]
He folds his hands and knees in prayer
[Hallelujah]
He is still an unmarried man
[Hallelujah]
So he must give his love as he can
[Hallelujah]
When the church clock strikes the hour
[Hallelujah]
He folds his hands and knees in prayer
[Hallelujah]
He is a true Christian
[Hallelujah]
Charity no mystery to him
[Hallelujah]
Turn slowly around
Turn around
Sorry, once again no lyrics link. Once Herzeleid is back on its feet I'll post these.
The song really needs no explanation. It's a wonderful song, despite or perhaps because of the subject matter. The choral vocals rock. I think it should have made general release on Mutter. I guess twelve tracks is just not in line with tradition :)
[lyrics][discuss]
[update 20090730: lyrics link added. Herzeleid's back!]
He's deeply feeling and pious
On his wall Our Lord is nailed
He wipes blemishes from the Bible
He gives Communion without fail
He loves all the choir boys
All their souls kept so clear
But the tenor gives him pause
So he has to keep him near
On the nightstand, not a sound
God's image
He turns it slowly 'round
When the church clock strikes the hour
[Hallelujah]
He folds his hands and knees in prayer
[Hallelujah]
He is still an unmarried man
[Hallelujah]
So he must give his love as he can
[Hallelujah]
The youth is allowed to stay
Sin nests at half his height
So he gets down to pray it away
To music and candlelight
When the church clock strikes the hour
[Hallelujah]
He folds his hands and knees in prayer
[Hallelujah]
He is still an unmarried man
[Hallelujah]
So he must give his love as he can
[Hallelujah]
When the church clock strikes the hour
[Hallelujah]
He folds his hands and knees in prayer
[Hallelujah]
He is a true Christian
[Hallelujah]
Charity no mystery to him
[Hallelujah]
Turn slowly around
Turn around
Sorry, once again no lyrics link. Once Herzeleid is back on its feet I'll post these.
The song really needs no explanation. It's a wonderful song, despite or perhaps because of the subject matter. The choral vocals rock. I think it should have made general release on Mutter. I guess twelve tracks is just not in line with tradition :)
[lyrics][discuss]
[update 20090730: lyrics link added. Herzeleid's back!]
LILT: Adios 1.0
I'm making iffey noises about 'nix'. I like nix because it sounds similar to 'nichts' (is actually stol-...borrowed from German), but it's a very flip word in English, and I'm not sure it works in the context of an overdose:
He lies the needle along the vein
And bids that the music come in
Between his neck and his elbow
The melody moves gently through the bones
Go! Go! Go!
Bop bop shu bop
And then as he closes his eyes
In his blood a battle rises
An army marching through his bowel
The warming in his entrails very slow
Go! Go! Go!
Bop bop shu bop
Nix is for you
Nix was for you
Nix left for you
Forever
He moves the needle out of his vein
The melody leaves through his skin
The strings burn him with their shrieks
Harp chords cut into his flesh
He has opened wide his eyes
But still he does not arise
Nix is for you
Nix was for you
Nix left for you
Forever
No lyrics link at this point, as Herzeleid isn't quite itself.
Adios is a cautionary tale, a very sad song, and a beautiful song, all in one. I'm sure the establishment would complain about the first couple of verses, but surely there's plenty to counter them in the last. It's a deceptively simple song. It says a great deal with very basic imagery. As with all the tracks on Mutter (apart from Sonne, which is an anthem) it's got something to say. It's not a favourite with me*, but it's really solid Rammstein, so it shouldn't be underrated.
[lyrics][discuss]
* I like it, but it would be mad to have fifty-odd favourites, now wouldn't it? ;)
[update 20090730: added lyrics link]
He lies the needle along the vein
And bids that the music come in
Between his neck and his elbow
The melody moves gently through the bones
Go! Go! Go!
Bop bop shu bop
And then as he closes his eyes
In his blood a battle rises
An army marching through his bowel
The warming in his entrails very slow
Go! Go! Go!
Bop bop shu bop
Nix is for you
Nix was for you
Nix left for you
Forever
He moves the needle out of his vein
The melody leaves through his skin
The strings burn him with their shrieks
Harp chords cut into his flesh
He has opened wide his eyes
But still he does not arise
Nix is for you
Nix was for you
Nix left for you
Forever
No lyrics link at this point, as Herzeleid isn't quite itself.
Adios is a cautionary tale, a very sad song, and a beautiful song, all in one. I'm sure the establishment would complain about the first couple of verses, but surely there's plenty to counter them in the last. It's a deceptively simple song. It says a great deal with very basic imagery. As with all the tracks on Mutter (apart from Sonne, which is an anthem) it's got something to say. It's not a favourite with me*, but it's really solid Rammstein, so it shouldn't be underrated.
[lyrics][discuss]
* I like it, but it would be mad to have fifty-odd favourites, now wouldn't it? ;)
[update 20090730: added lyrics link]
2009-07-23
NS Arse-Up
I made a very newbish mistake with some of my name servers, and forgot to add the CNAME record for rammage-control.rammstein.me, so the site kind of 'fell off' the intardweb. I've now rectified this, so once that change propagates Rammage-Control will return in all its embryonic glory. Sorry chaps!
[discuss]
[discuss]
2009-07-22
LILTage
Just so you know, I am still working on LILT. I'm presently adapting Adios, which is actually hard. It's so simple that it's like doing Tai Chi in a straitjacket.
I'm also planning on doing a few more while I'm at it, but all the madness and jetlag (my first ever) since I got back from Greece has meant I don't have the time or mental energy to do much.
I'm also working on a song for a band, and of course my new Rammage Control thing, so it's all on. I'm actually going to drop everything soon, and do something utterly passive, such as watching a bunch of DVDs or gazing stupidly at nothing (same difference), as I think I need some serious blobby-time, but not yet...
[discuss]
I'm also planning on doing a few more while I'm at it, but all the madness and jetlag (my first ever) since I got back from Greece has meant I don't have the time or mental energy to do much.
I'm also working on a song for a band, and of course my new Rammage Control thing, so it's all on. I'm actually going to drop everything soon, and do something utterly passive, such as watching a bunch of DVDs or gazing stupidly at nothing (same difference), as I think I need some serious blobby-time, but not yet...
[discuss]
Rammage Control
2009-07-20
Community Rammagement
I'm starting a new project. It's entirely unrelated to LILT, aside from the fact that it's Rammstein-based, but it's going to go on quietly in the background in parallel with it, using the communities I'm now part of because of LILT and Rammstein.
I'm going to write a proposal for Pilgrim and Rammstein. I'm going to work very hard on it. I'm then going to bind it and post it to Pilgrim, Rammstein, Universal Music, and anyone else I can find with a stake in Rammstein. This proposal is going to include community management strategies and also ideas for building PR. I'm no PR expert, but I'm more up with community management and I've got a solid idea of how that ties in to PR. I may need to tap some PR experts for help with this.
Either way, I've decided that something has to change, or Rammstein's fan-base is going to suffer a serious reduction in numbers and a highly negative disillusionment if things continue as they have, most particularly as pertains to the issue of IP protection. The PR and community management for Rammstein is either non-existent or horribly bad. This must change.
Rammstein and Pilgrim can't rely on the intrinsic loyalty of their fans. Yes, it's intense. It's exceptionally strong, given the PR (or lack thereof) we've seen. It's not enough though. There needs to be some love flowing the other way. SOON.
If you have gripes about how the band is presented to the world, with the communications between the band and their fan-base, with the implementation of ideas such as the ticket roll-out last month, with any aspect of the band's public interface, please write to me. Send me your rants, your reasons, your broken hearts. I need them!
[discuss]
Update: I've realised that I will of course have to buy a Fan Arena membership to do this properly, but simply can't afford it at the moment. This may push out my time-frame of a couple of months to be a bit longer, but I will do this.
I'm going to write a proposal for Pilgrim and Rammstein. I'm going to work very hard on it. I'm then going to bind it and post it to Pilgrim, Rammstein, Universal Music, and anyone else I can find with a stake in Rammstein. This proposal is going to include community management strategies and also ideas for building PR. I'm no PR expert, but I'm more up with community management and I've got a solid idea of how that ties in to PR. I may need to tap some PR experts for help with this.
Either way, I've decided that something has to change, or Rammstein's fan-base is going to suffer a serious reduction in numbers and a highly negative disillusionment if things continue as they have, most particularly as pertains to the issue of IP protection. The PR and community management for Rammstein is either non-existent or horribly bad. This must change.
Rammstein and Pilgrim can't rely on the intrinsic loyalty of their fans. Yes, it's intense. It's exceptionally strong, given the PR (or lack thereof) we've seen. It's not enough though. There needs to be some love flowing the other way. SOON.
If you have gripes about how the band is presented to the world, with the communications between the band and their fan-base, with the implementation of ideas such as the ticket roll-out last month, with any aspect of the band's public interface, please write to me. Send me your rants, your reasons, your broken hearts. I need them!
[discuss]
Update: I've realised that I will of course have to buy a Fan Arena membership to do this properly, but simply can't afford it at the moment. This may push out my time-frame of a couple of months to be a bit longer, but I will do this.
Droppings
If you got hold of the leaked track from the upcoming Rammstein album please take a moment to look back over past albums before remarking the song. I've been reading disappointment and criticism of the leaked track, and it's frustrating. I can only imagine how infuriating it is for Rammstein themselves.
Every single Rammstein album to date has been a complex journey. To take a single vista from that journey and judge the whole on it is unrealistic and preposterous in the extreme, as well as being unfair to the band. Many individual Rammstein songs stand alone well, but there are tracks on every album that really need their siblings to make sense, and there's no reason to believe this isn't the case here.
Give over with the whining and sneering, please. You've got hold of a song you should not have access to and it's only one eleventh of what you're meant to have, based on history. You don't have enough data on which to base a judgement yet.
Also, if you have the leaked track do not distribute it further. Propagation of this leak is disrespectful to the band, and highly illegal. The person who leaked it in the first place is a complete fuckchop, so don't join that sad little club. It won't become you at all, and Pilgrim aren't likely to let it slide if they find you.
If you get nailed for sharing the leaked song it's all you deserve.
[discuss]
Every single Rammstein album to date has been a complex journey. To take a single vista from that journey and judge the whole on it is unrealistic and preposterous in the extreme, as well as being unfair to the band. Many individual Rammstein songs stand alone well, but there are tracks on every album that really need their siblings to make sense, and there's no reason to believe this isn't the case here.
Give over with the whining and sneering, please. You've got hold of a song you should not have access to and it's only one eleventh of what you're meant to have, based on history. You don't have enough data on which to base a judgement yet.
Also, if you have the leaked track do not distribute it further. Propagation of this leak is disrespectful to the band, and highly illegal. The person who leaked it in the first place is a complete fuckchop, so don't join that sad little club. It won't become you at all, and Pilgrim aren't likely to let it slide if they find you.
If you get nailed for sharing the leaked song it's all you deserve.
[discuss]
2009-07-18
Open Letter to Pilgrim Management
There has been a leak, or perhaps more than one person gave out Rammstein properties. I don't know. Obviously this is against your wishes. Communities have found users are getting hold of these properties, and one of the first to combat this and try and quash the spread of your property was Herzeleid.Com. The community team on that site were deleting posts, banning users, and generally combating the spread of the leaked track and images from the day they came to light, and continued to do so as long as I was able to access the site. Right now the site is not what it should be.
Now, I'm not sure if Pilgrim has approached Jeremy, the site owner (I don't know him personally to ask), and I don't know the nature of any contact that might have been made, but I'm seeing rumours all over the show that sites like (and including) Herzeleid have been threatened with legal action or closure over the leaked material. I hope this is not true in the case of Herzeleid, at least. This community is run with the protection of Rammstein's interests at the fore, and this kind of consideration should be taken into account by Pilgrim and Rammstein.
Perhaps, rather than going for fan communities in cases like this, Pilgrim should look to the people they gave the material to in the first place. Perhaps not releasing sensitive material at all ahead of time would be a better way to protect it. Perhaps individually watermarking images given out, so the source of a leak can be readily identified would pay off. Perhaps similarly marking audio files would be sensible. The fan communities are not the source of your leak, Pilgrim, and to alienate them is not sound business practice. You're making fans angry and upsetting what should be a very positive year for you and the band.
All my experience of IP protection is in the games industry, but I am aware that it is possible to individually tag any given file in various ways, so as to be able to identify them later on. Image watermarking can survive any number of methods to foil it and I can imagine that running a tick or tone throughout an audio file would be similarly hard to eradicate if the NDAed individual were aware of it, which they needn't be.
Please look at your own systems and processes before threatening the fan community over the leak of your property, and please pay special consideration to those communities who are doing their best to protect your properties. Using fear, rather than care, is not going to serve your interests nearly so well.
[discuss]
Now, I'm not sure if Pilgrim has approached Jeremy, the site owner (I don't know him personally to ask), and I don't know the nature of any contact that might have been made, but I'm seeing rumours all over the show that sites like (and including) Herzeleid have been threatened with legal action or closure over the leaked material. I hope this is not true in the case of Herzeleid, at least. This community is run with the protection of Rammstein's interests at the fore, and this kind of consideration should be taken into account by Pilgrim and Rammstein.
Perhaps, rather than going for fan communities in cases like this, Pilgrim should look to the people they gave the material to in the first place. Perhaps not releasing sensitive material at all ahead of time would be a better way to protect it. Perhaps individually watermarking images given out, so the source of a leak can be readily identified would pay off. Perhaps similarly marking audio files would be sensible. The fan communities are not the source of your leak, Pilgrim, and to alienate them is not sound business practice. You're making fans angry and upsetting what should be a very positive year for you and the band.
All my experience of IP protection is in the games industry, but I am aware that it is possible to individually tag any given file in various ways, so as to be able to identify them later on. Image watermarking can survive any number of methods to foil it and I can imagine that running a tick or tone throughout an audio file would be similarly hard to eradicate if the NDAed individual were aware of it, which they needn't be.
Please look at your own systems and processes before threatening the fan community over the leak of your property, and please pay special consideration to those communities who are doing their best to protect your properties. Using fear, rather than care, is not going to serve your interests nearly so well.
[discuss]
2009-07-17
Suckage
My birthday kind of sucked last weekend. Also, some rectal drip leaked a Rammstein single. Also, my lovely Aegean holiday is now over, and I'm back to NZ's winter and work on Monday. Also, I have air-con' nose. I hate the climate control on commercial planes. Also, some woman picked my suitcase up from the carousel and took it home with her, so it's getting delivered to me tomorrow. I should have just taken hers home, rather than reporting the whole screw-up.
Grumpy? Me? Never...
On-topic, my Mann Gegen Mann LILT is being recorded, by the lovely Drax. w00t!
[discuss]
[Update: my case showed up tonight rather than tomorrow. I'm most impressed with Menzies the company who do SIA's luggage-handling in NZ]
Grumpy? Me? Never...
On-topic, my Mann Gegen Mann LILT is being recorded, by the lovely Drax. w00t!
[discuss]
[Update: my case showed up tonight rather than tomorrow. I'm most impressed with Menzies the company who do SIA's luggage-handling in NZ]
2009-07-12
LILT: Stein Um Stein 3.0
I have a plan, it's grand my dear
I'm building you a house
Every stone shall be a tear
And you will never get out
Yeah, I'll build this house of yours
Without windows and without doors
In it will be dark withal
No light will get in there at all
Yeah I'll make a home for you
You'll be a part of it too
Stone by stone I wall you in
Stone by stone
I'm always there with you within
With no clothes and no shoes
You watch me get to work for you
With your feet sunk in cement
You're a basement ornament
Outside a garden with a stream
And no-one hears you scream
Stone by stone I wall you in
Stone by stone
I'm always there with you within
Such hammering, it's appalling
And outside the night is falling
All of my nails are standing
Into your trunk my hammer's Ramming...
Stone!
Stone by stone I wall you in
Stone by stone
And no-one hears you scream
[lyrics][discuss]
I'm building you a house
Every stone shall be a tear
And you will never get out
Yeah, I'll build this house of yours
Without windows and without doors
In it will be dark withal
No light will get in there at all
Yeah I'll make a home for you
You'll be a part of it too
Stone by stone I wall you in
Stone by stone
I'm always there with you within
With no clothes and no shoes
You watch me get to work for you
With your feet sunk in cement
You're a basement ornament
Outside a garden with a stream
And no-one hears you scream
Stone by stone I wall you in
Stone by stone
I'm always there with you within
Such hammering, it's appalling
And outside the night is falling
All of my nails are standing
Into your trunk my hammer's Ramming...
Stone!
Stone by stone I wall you in
Stone by stone
And no-one hears you scream
[lyrics][discuss]
LILT: Weißes Fleisch 3.0
Such white flesh
As you're at school
I am ready to kill
My loneliness is
Overlooked by all
Red contusions on your white hide
I hurt you so
and so loudly you cry
Now you're afraid and I'm so close
My black blood soils your immaculate clothes
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a gigolo
Your hot white flesh enlightens me
My blackened blood and your clear white flesh
Your cries excite my passions afresh
My twisted mind only responds now
To the cold sweat on your white brow
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a gigolo
As father was I came to be
Your warm white flesh enlightens me
Now you're scared and I'm inspired
but ache to be saved from the fire
Your clear white flesh is my scaffold
And my heaven includes no god
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a gigolo
Your cool white flesh enlightens me
As father was I came to be
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a sorry gigolo
Your cold white flesh enlightens me
[lyrics][discuss]
NB: Please see the first draft for notes on skin temperature.
As you're at school
I am ready to kill
My loneliness is
Overlooked by all
Red contusions on your white hide
I hurt you so
and so loudly you cry
Now you're afraid and I'm so close
My black blood soils your immaculate clothes
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a gigolo
Your hot white flesh enlightens me
My blackened blood and your clear white flesh
Your cries excite my passions afresh
My twisted mind only responds now
To the cold sweat on your white brow
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a gigolo
As father was I came to be
Your warm white flesh enlightens me
Now you're scared and I'm inspired
but ache to be saved from the fire
Your clear white flesh is my scaffold
And my heaven includes no god
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a gigolo
Your cool white flesh enlightens me
As father was I came to be
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a sorry gigolo
Your cold white flesh enlightens me
[lyrics][discuss]
NB: Please see the first draft for notes on skin temperature.
LILT: Seeman 3.2
Come in my boat
A storm comes and
Night's sinking day
Where will you go
You're so alone
You drift away
Who shall hold your hand
When you are
Pulled underneath
Where will you go
So endless
The chilling sea
Come in my boat
The sails are trim
In Autumn's breeze
While there you stand beside the lantern
Tears streaking down your face
The daylight falls to one side
The autumn winds clear the streets
While there you stand beside the lantern
Tears streaking down your face
The twilight chases off the shadows
Time freezes and autumn's here
Come in my boat
Yearning is
The helmsman
Come in my boat
I was once the
Best seaman
While there you stand beside the lantern
Tears streaking down your face
You take away the candle's flame
Time freezes and autumn's here
They only spoke about your mother
Only the night is so cruel
In the end I am alone
Time freezes
And I am cold
[lyrics][discuss]
I've removed 'A' from:
Come in my boat
A yearning is
The helmsman
A storm comes and
Night's sinking day
Where will you go
You're so alone
You drift away
Who shall hold your hand
When you are
Pulled underneath
Where will you go
So endless
The chilling sea
Come in my boat
The sails are trim
In Autumn's breeze
While there you stand beside the lantern
Tears streaking down your face
The daylight falls to one side
The autumn winds clear the streets
While there you stand beside the lantern
Tears streaking down your face
The twilight chases off the shadows
Time freezes and autumn's here
Come in my boat
Yearning is
The helmsman
Come in my boat
I was once the
Best seaman
While there you stand beside the lantern
Tears streaking down your face
You take away the candle's flame
Time freezes and autumn's here
They only spoke about your mother
Only the night is so cruel
In the end I am alone
Time freezes
And I am cold
[lyrics][discuss]
I've removed 'A' from:
Come in my boat
A yearning is
The helmsman
2009-07-11
Stranger Than Fiction
Fan fiction on the whole doesn't worry me. I've read some excellent fan fiction based on a range of of properties, from TV shows to books to movies. I do have a bit of a problem with real people fiction, but it's my problem. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with writing about real people, so long as consideration is given to those people, their families, and their friends.
Equally, I have no real objection to pornography. It can be fun, is generally interesting, if well-written, and most definitely has a place in the world of literature and film. I think publishing it in such a way that it doesn't fall into the wrong hands is also important, since sex isn't always missionary position and romantic romps in front of roaring fireplaces, but otherwise it's open slather.
What I get really antsy about is a type of fan fiction, referred to as slash or het, depending on whether the subjects go for their own sex or the other, as it is applied to real people. It's not so much its existence that worries me, though I really don't want to be exposed to it myself. It's the manner in which it is often published, i.e. unsecured. I do think that if you're going to write erotica about a person that is alive (and probably famous, given the fact of it being 'fan fiction') you should take into account the fact that your subject is a real person with real family and friends, and that all those people concerned have feelings, both about one another and about what is published about them.
I got a little preachy in a thread on Rammstein Europe's discussion boards recently about precisely this subject, asking that people who write porn fiction about Rammstein be careful about how they publish their work. I pissed some people off, but I genuinely feel this subject shouldn't be dismissed.
Rammstein, and other objects of such enthusiastic fan-dom, are generally big enough and ugly enough to look after themselves, but that's no reason to disregard their feelings or their loved ones. Sure, write your sickest fantasies about Rammstein out, if that floats your boat, and share them with like-minded souls if you feel the need, but is it really that hard to make sure the children of the object of your desire can't possibly find your work? Is it really so onerous to find a responsible and courteous way to share your writings so your idol's mother is safe from the mental image of her son being bent over and very thoroughly reamed by his best friend? It can't be so very troublesome, surely...
Because I've made my feelings and views about this pretty clear I've opted to put my money where my mouth is and have created a hidden forum on You.Rammstein.Me for Rammstein fan art and fiction, more particularly that of a sexual nature. The forum can only be viewed and posted to by forum users who're in the group set up specifically for that forum, and only I can add users to that group. This way people have a place to share and discuss their fan fiction, be it written by them or by someone else, where there's no real chance of it causing problems. I'm actually going to set a robots file up so it's not searchable in the major search engines too.
Because it have a genuine distaste for this kind of fan fiction I won't be using that forum at all, but have found two fan fiction aficionados with thicker skin than mine, who will manage it for me. At present there is no content in the forum, and only one user in the group, but if you wish to partake and perhaps get the ball rolling sign up for the forum and let me know, and I'll add you to the group. This may be done by emailing me or by PMing me via the discussion board.
[discuss]
Equally, I have no real objection to pornography. It can be fun, is generally interesting, if well-written, and most definitely has a place in the world of literature and film. I think publishing it in such a way that it doesn't fall into the wrong hands is also important, since sex isn't always missionary position and romantic romps in front of roaring fireplaces, but otherwise it's open slather.
What I get really antsy about is a type of fan fiction, referred to as slash or het, depending on whether the subjects go for their own sex or the other, as it is applied to real people. It's not so much its existence that worries me, though I really don't want to be exposed to it myself. It's the manner in which it is often published, i.e. unsecured. I do think that if you're going to write erotica about a person that is alive (and probably famous, given the fact of it being 'fan fiction') you should take into account the fact that your subject is a real person with real family and friends, and that all those people concerned have feelings, both about one another and about what is published about them.
I got a little preachy in a thread on Rammstein Europe's discussion boards recently about precisely this subject, asking that people who write porn fiction about Rammstein be careful about how they publish their work. I pissed some people off, but I genuinely feel this subject shouldn't be dismissed.
Rammstein, and other objects of such enthusiastic fan-dom, are generally big enough and ugly enough to look after themselves, but that's no reason to disregard their feelings or their loved ones. Sure, write your sickest fantasies about Rammstein out, if that floats your boat, and share them with like-minded souls if you feel the need, but is it really that hard to make sure the children of the object of your desire can't possibly find your work? Is it really so onerous to find a responsible and courteous way to share your writings so your idol's mother is safe from the mental image of her son being bent over and very thoroughly reamed by his best friend? It can't be so very troublesome, surely...
Because I've made my feelings and views about this pretty clear I've opted to put my money where my mouth is and have created a hidden forum on You.Rammstein.Me for Rammstein fan art and fiction, more particularly that of a sexual nature. The forum can only be viewed and posted to by forum users who're in the group set up specifically for that forum, and only I can add users to that group. This way people have a place to share and discuss their fan fiction, be it written by them or by someone else, where there's no real chance of it causing problems. I'm actually going to set a robots file up so it's not searchable in the major search engines too.
Because it have a genuine distaste for this kind of fan fiction I won't be using that forum at all, but have found two fan fiction aficionados with thicker skin than mine, who will manage it for me. At present there is no content in the forum, and only one user in the group, but if you wish to partake and perhaps get the ball rolling sign up for the forum and let me know, and I'll add you to the group. This may be done by emailing me or by PMing me via the discussion board.
[discuss]
2009-07-09
LILT: Zerstören 3.1
I look after my own turf
But break down yours to rock and dirt
Consuming, entombing
Defacing, and wasting
From inside me a great greed sings
I feel the need to manage things
I'm the destroyer
So much effort just for you
I'm the destroyer
So much effort just for you
Mine!
I want to break all that you've built
I tear it down and don't feel guilt
I'm stripping, and ripping
I'm spitting, and kicking
My discipline ought to impress
I aim to cause that much distress
I'm wrecking, dissecting, rejecting
Destroying
So much effort just for you
I'm the destroyer
So much effort just for you
Mine!
All this drive is inside me
I am on a wrecking spree
In me there is a better side
but he's along for the ride
I'm the destroyer
So much effort just for you
I'm the destroyer
So much effort just for you
Mine!
I'm ripping, and stripping
I'm taking, and breaking
I'm tearing, and searing
I'm wrecking, dissecting
I'm crashing, and smashing
And rending, and bending
Defacing, and wasting
I'm kicking, and spitting
Er traf ein Mädchen, das war blind
Geteiltes Leid und gleichgesinnt
Sah einen Stern vom Himmel gehen
Und wünschte sich sie könnte sehn
Sie hat die Augen aufgemacht
Verließ ihn noch zur selben Nacht
[lyrics][discuss]
But break down yours to rock and dirt
Consuming, entombing
Defacing, and wasting
From inside me a great greed sings
I feel the need to manage things
I'm the destroyer
So much effort just for you
I'm the destroyer
So much effort just for you
Mine!
I want to break all that you've built
I tear it down and don't feel guilt
I'm stripping, and ripping
I'm spitting, and kicking
My discipline ought to impress
I aim to cause that much distress
I'm wrecking, dissecting, rejecting
Destroying
So much effort just for you
I'm the destroyer
So much effort just for you
Mine!
All this drive is inside me
I am on a wrecking spree
In me there is a better side
but he's along for the ride
I'm the destroyer
So much effort just for you
I'm the destroyer
So much effort just for you
Mine!
I'm ripping, and stripping
I'm taking, and breaking
I'm tearing, and searing
I'm wrecking, dissecting
I'm crashing, and smashing
And rending, and bending
Defacing, and wasting
I'm kicking, and spitting
Er traf ein Mädchen, das war blind
Geteiltes Leid und gleichgesinnt
Sah einen Stern vom Himmel gehen
Und wünschte sich sie könnte sehn
Sie hat die Augen aufgemacht
Verließ ihn noch zur selben Nacht
[lyrics][discuss]
LILT: Seeman 3.1
Come in my boat
A storm comes and
Night's sinking day
Where will you go
You're so alone
You drift away
Who shall hold your hand
When you are
Pulled underneath
Where will you go
So endless
The chilling sea
Come in my boat
The sails are trim
In Autumn's breeze
While there you stand beside the lantern
Tears streaking down your face
The daylight falls to one side
The autumn winds clear the streets
While there you stand beside the lantern
Tears streaking down your face
The twilight chases off the shadows
Time freezes and autumn's here
Come in my boat
A yearning is
The helmsman
Come in my boat
I was once the
Best seaman
While there you stand beside the lantern
Tears streaking down your face
You take away the candle's flame
Time freezes and autumn's here
They only spoke about your mother
Only the night is so cruel
In the end I am alone
Time freezes
And I am cold
[lyrics][discuss]
A storm comes and
Night's sinking day
Where will you go
You're so alone
You drift away
Who shall hold your hand
When you are
Pulled underneath
Where will you go
So endless
The chilling sea
Come in my boat
The sails are trim
In Autumn's breeze
While there you stand beside the lantern
Tears streaking down your face
The daylight falls to one side
The autumn winds clear the streets
While there you stand beside the lantern
Tears streaking down your face
The twilight chases off the shadows
Time freezes and autumn's here
Come in my boat
A yearning is
The helmsman
Come in my boat
I was once the
Best seaman
While there you stand beside the lantern
Tears streaking down your face
You take away the candle's flame
Time freezes and autumn's here
They only spoke about your mother
Only the night is so cruel
In the end I am alone
Time freezes
And I am cold
[lyrics][discuss]
LILT: Weißes Fleisch 1.2
Such white flesh
As you're at school
I am ready to kill
My loneliness is
Overlooked by all
Red contusions on your white hide
I hurt you so
and so loudly you cry
Now you're afraid and I'm so close
My black blood soils your immaculate clothes
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a gigolo
Your hot white flesh enlightens me
My blackened blood and your clear white flesh
Your cries excite my passions afresh
My perverted mind only responds now
To the cold sweat on your white brow
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a gigolo
As father was I came to be
Your warm white flesh enlightens me
Now you're scared and I'm inspired
but ache to be saved from the fire
Your clear white flesh is my scaffold
And my heaven includes no god
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a gigolo
Your cool white flesh enlightens me
As father was I came to be
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a sorry gigolo
Your cold white flesh enlightens me
[lyrics][discuss]
NB: Please see the first draft for notes on skin temperature.
As you're at school
I am ready to kill
My loneliness is
Overlooked by all
Red contusions on your white hide
I hurt you so
and so loudly you cry
Now you're afraid and I'm so close
My black blood soils your immaculate clothes
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a gigolo
Your hot white flesh enlightens me
My blackened blood and your clear white flesh
Your cries excite my passions afresh
My perverted mind only responds now
To the cold sweat on your white brow
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a gigolo
As father was I came to be
Your warm white flesh enlightens me
Now you're scared and I'm inspired
but ache to be saved from the fire
Your clear white flesh is my scaffold
And my heaven includes no god
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a gigolo
Your cool white flesh enlightens me
As father was I came to be
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a sorry gigolo
Your cold white flesh enlightens me
[lyrics][discuss]
NB: Please see the first draft for notes on skin temperature.
LILT: Feuer Frei 3.0
Judgement comes to the hurt
from fire that will leave them burnt
I illuminate
My own face
A fevered cry
Open Fire!
Bang bang
Bang bang
Those in pain are raised by
The flames that burn in desire
A searing roar
Into her core
A fevered cry
Open Fire!
Bang bang
Bang bang
Open Fire!
Bang bang
Bang bang
Open Fire!
Those in pain are a peril
From fire burning through the soul
Bang bang
The burnt child will bring strife
With flames that take from life
A fevered cry
Bang bang
Open Fire!
Your joy
Is not my joy
It's my sorrow
Your joy
Is not my joy
It's my sorrow
Bang bang
Bang bang
Open Fire!
Bang bang
Bang bang
Open Fire!
Promoted.
[lyrics][discuss]
from fire that will leave them burnt
I illuminate
My own face
A fevered cry
Open Fire!
Bang bang
Bang bang
Those in pain are raised by
The flames that burn in desire
A searing roar
Into her core
A fevered cry
Open Fire!
Bang bang
Bang bang
Open Fire!
Bang bang
Bang bang
Open Fire!
Those in pain are a peril
From fire burning through the soul
Bang bang
The burnt child will bring strife
With flames that take from life
A fevered cry
Bang bang
Open Fire!
Your joy
Is not my joy
It's my sorrow
Your joy
Is not my joy
It's my sorrow
Bang bang
Bang bang
Open Fire!
Bang bang
Bang bang
Open Fire!
Promoted.
[lyrics][discuss]
LILT: Keine Lust 3.0
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire at all for myself
Have no desire to paw at myself
I might desire some masturbation
Have no desire to undertake it
I might desire getting unclothed
Have no desire to be exposed
I might desire it with the big beasts
Have no desire to take such a risk
Have no desire to leave the ice
No desire to freeze like this
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire
No I have no desire
I have no desire at all to ingest
I have no desire at all to digest
No desire to know my weight
No desire to lie in my fat
I might desire it with the big beasts
Have no desire to take such a risk
Have no desire to leave the ice
No desire to freeze like this
I'll just stay here where I lie
And try to re-count all the flies
Listlessly I touch myself
And notice I've been frigid for so long
Frigid
I am cold
So cold
I am cold...
I have no desire
[lyrics][discuss]
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire at all for myself
Have no desire to paw at myself
I might desire some masturbation
Have no desire to undertake it
I might desire getting unclothed
Have no desire to be exposed
I might desire it with the big beasts
Have no desire to take such a risk
Have no desire to leave the ice
No desire to freeze like this
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire
No I have no desire
I have no desire at all to ingest
I have no desire at all to digest
No desire to know my weight
No desire to lie in my fat
I might desire it with the big beasts
Have no desire to take such a risk
Have no desire to leave the ice
No desire to freeze like this
I'll just stay here where I lie
And try to re-count all the flies
Listlessly I touch myself
And notice I've been frigid for so long
Frigid
I am cold
So cold
I am cold...
I have no desire
[lyrics][discuss]
LILT: Amour 3.0
This love is a wild beast
It inhales you as it seeks
Broken hearts will form its nest
It hunts when romance is at its best
It sucks hard on your lips
And burrows in through your ribs
It drops softly as the snow
It burns and then it chills, with pain the final blow
Amour Amour
Your control is sought by all
Amour Amour not before
They all end between your jaws
This love is a wild beast
It lashes out at me and feasts
A thousand arms around my chest
As it drags me to its nest
It eats me up, every part
And afterward retches me back out
It drops softly as the snow
It burns and then it chills, with pain the final blow
Amour Amour
Your control is sought by all
Amour Amour not before
They all end between your jaws
Amour Amour
Your control is sought by all
Amour Amour not before
They all end between your jaws
This love is a wild beast
It inhales you as it seeks
Broken hearts will form its nest
It hunts when romance is at its best
It eats me up, every part
And afterward retches me back out
It drops softly as the snow
It burns and then it chills, with pain the final blow
Amour Amour
Your control is sought by all
Amour Amour not before
They all end between your jaws
This love is a wild beast
And its trap is complete
On you its eyes will feast
Enthralled as its gaze hits
This love is a wild beast
And its trap is complete
On you its eyes will feast
Enthralled as its gaze hits
Please help me escape it
Please help me escape it
Please help me escape it
Please help me escape it
[lyrics][discuss]
It inhales you as it seeks
Broken hearts will form its nest
It hunts when romance is at its best
It sucks hard on your lips
And burrows in through your ribs
It drops softly as the snow
It burns and then it chills, with pain the final blow
Amour Amour
Your control is sought by all
Amour Amour not before
They all end between your jaws
This love is a wild beast
It lashes out at me and feasts
A thousand arms around my chest
As it drags me to its nest
It eats me up, every part
And afterward retches me back out
It drops softly as the snow
It burns and then it chills, with pain the final blow
Amour Amour
Your control is sought by all
Amour Amour not before
They all end between your jaws
Amour Amour
Your control is sought by all
Amour Amour not before
They all end between your jaws
This love is a wild beast
It inhales you as it seeks
Broken hearts will form its nest
It hunts when romance is at its best
It eats me up, every part
And afterward retches me back out
It drops softly as the snow
It burns and then it chills, with pain the final blow
Amour Amour
Your control is sought by all
Amour Amour not before
They all end between your jaws
This love is a wild beast
And its trap is complete
On you its eyes will feast
Enthralled as its gaze hits
This love is a wild beast
And its trap is complete
On you its eyes will feast
Enthralled as its gaze hits
Please help me escape it
Please help me escape it
Please help me escape it
Please help me escape it
[lyrics][discuss]
2009-07-08
LILT: Tier 3.0
What is his drive
What's in his mind
The man who can't tell beast
Apart from his own kind
What
His own young daughter's soul
He burns for heat like coal
He's onto her like a dog
He swallows her down whole
What made you
What moves you
What are you
If not a
Beast
What is her drive
What's in her mind
The woman who can't tell beast
Apart from her own kind
She writes it all down in his blood
A dark letter to her youth
Lines release the past in a flood
When her father was all brute
What made you
What moves you
What are you
If not a
Beast
[lyrics][discuss]
Edit: Promoted.
What's in his mind
The man who can't tell beast
Apart from his own kind
What
His own young daughter's soul
He burns for heat like coal
He's onto her like a dog
He swallows her down whole
What made you
What moves you
What are you
If not a
Beast
What is her drive
What's in her mind
The woman who can't tell beast
Apart from her own kind
She writes it all down in his blood
A dark letter to her youth
Lines release the past in a flood
When her father was all brute
What made you
What moves you
What are you
If not a
Beast
[lyrics][discuss]
Edit: Promoted.
Crumbs of Randomness
I'm from New Zealand. If you've been paying attention at all you know this already. It strikes me that most people outside New Zealand really have no idea about it, aside from that seen in the Lord of the Rings movies, and perhaps the Hercules and Zena TV shows. That's not really ideal.
If you like eclectic environments all within a very small area of land, all accessible within three to four hours of flight (from one end of the nation to another), and all with something fairly special to offer then you'll like New Zealand. I've found this gallery of photos of NZ, which is worth a look.
You can surf and ski within an area covered by a few hours of driving, as well as a lot of beauty in between. We're on two islands, named The North Island and The South Island (boxes of imaginative craziness, our forbears), and they're very, very different from one another. Within each island is a lot of variation in people, landscapes, and climates. It's a pretty cool place to be, even if you're only visiting.
On a very different note, my holiday in Greece is drawing to its end, which makes me sad. My creativity and general happiness levels have been incredibly high while I've been here, and I'm not really looking forward to heading back to NZ's worst winter in a few years. I've got a lovely tan, which will fade into my customary paleness under my winter woolies, and I have to get back to work once I'm back. If I believed in a god at this stage I would pray for someone to 'discover' me as some kind of lyrical talent and save me from a technical career that looms over me, but somehow I can't bring myself to believe any such thing, so I guess I have to stick with what I know.
One consolation is I'm getting a new iPod on the way back to NZ. Some more are that I'll get to see my best friends, will be able to cuddle my animals, and the darkest time of the year for NZ has passed. Here's to the NZ spring in September/October!
Right now I'm going to prioritise getting the remaining in-progress LILTs into the possibly finished pile, and I think I will also LILT Adios, which has beautiful, if somewhat frightening lyrics. Other than the above I am in avid anticipation of the new Rammstein album, and am thinking of attempting a somewhat odd mash-up after I get home to NZ. I won't post more detail, but if it works as I hope it will I shall make the mash-up available via this site, and hopefully won't land my arse in a 'cease and desist' sling.
It's my birthday next weekend (hence the new iPod), and I don't know how I feel about it this year. Last year I spent a good part of my birthday at a funeral. Most years we do nothing. It's all a little anticlimactic. This year we're going out for dinner in the village, and I may muscle in on a joint birthday party coming up early in August, and claim a stake in that. Call it my birthday mutiny...
I'm not sure why I'm posting all of this. I'm sure much of the readership this site gets is from people who're interested in Rammstein, so my rambling probably isn't that much of a draw-card.
I used to ruminate a lot about the lyrics I was working on, but I wasn't sure if people liked reading my mid-LILT flow-of-consciousness posts, so I've pretty much stopped that. I might go back to doing that. Let me know if you're bored.
[discuss]
If you like eclectic environments all within a very small area of land, all accessible within three to four hours of flight (from one end of the nation to another), and all with something fairly special to offer then you'll like New Zealand. I've found this gallery of photos of NZ, which is worth a look.
You can surf and ski within an area covered by a few hours of driving, as well as a lot of beauty in between. We're on two islands, named The North Island and The South Island (boxes of imaginative craziness, our forbears), and they're very, very different from one another. Within each island is a lot of variation in people, landscapes, and climates. It's a pretty cool place to be, even if you're only visiting.
On a very different note, my holiday in Greece is drawing to its end, which makes me sad. My creativity and general happiness levels have been incredibly high while I've been here, and I'm not really looking forward to heading back to NZ's worst winter in a few years. I've got a lovely tan, which will fade into my customary paleness under my winter woolies, and I have to get back to work once I'm back. If I believed in a god at this stage I would pray for someone to 'discover' me as some kind of lyrical talent and save me from a technical career that looms over me, but somehow I can't bring myself to believe any such thing, so I guess I have to stick with what I know.
One consolation is I'm getting a new iPod on the way back to NZ. Some more are that I'll get to see my best friends, will be able to cuddle my animals, and the darkest time of the year for NZ has passed. Here's to the NZ spring in September/October!
Right now I'm going to prioritise getting the remaining in-progress LILTs into the possibly finished pile, and I think I will also LILT Adios, which has beautiful, if somewhat frightening lyrics. Other than the above I am in avid anticipation of the new Rammstein album, and am thinking of attempting a somewhat odd mash-up after I get home to NZ. I won't post more detail, but if it works as I hope it will I shall make the mash-up available via this site, and hopefully won't land my arse in a 'cease and desist' sling.
It's my birthday next weekend (hence the new iPod), and I don't know how I feel about it this year. Last year I spent a good part of my birthday at a funeral. Most years we do nothing. It's all a little anticlimactic. This year we're going out for dinner in the village, and I may muscle in on a joint birthday party coming up early in August, and claim a stake in that. Call it my birthday mutiny...
I'm not sure why I'm posting all of this. I'm sure much of the readership this site gets is from people who're interested in Rammstein, so my rambling probably isn't that much of a draw-card.
I used to ruminate a lot about the lyrics I was working on, but I wasn't sure if people liked reading my mid-LILT flow-of-consciousness posts, so I've pretty much stopped that. I might go back to doing that. Let me know if you're bored.
[discuss]
2009-07-07
LILT: Weißes Fleisch 1.1
Such white flesh
As you're at school
I am ready to kill
My loneliness is
Overlooked here still
Red contusions on your white hide
I hurt you so
and so loudly you cry
Now you're afraid and I'm so close
My black blood soils your immaculate clothes
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a gigolo
Your hot white flesh enlightens me
My blackened blood and your clear white flesh
Your cries excite my passions afresh
My perverted mind only responds now
To the cold sweat on your white brow
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a gigolo
As father was I came to be
Your warm white flesh enlightens me
Now you're scared and I'm inspired
but ache to be saved from the fire
Your clear white flesh is my scaffold
And my heaven includes no god
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a gigolo
Your cool white flesh enlightens me
As father was I came to be
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a sorry gigolo
Your cold white flesh enlightens me
[lyrics][discuss]
NB: Please see the first draft for notes on skin temperature.
As you're at school
I am ready to kill
My loneliness is
Overlooked here still
Red contusions on your white hide
I hurt you so
and so loudly you cry
Now you're afraid and I'm so close
My black blood soils your immaculate clothes
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a gigolo
Your hot white flesh enlightens me
My blackened blood and your clear white flesh
Your cries excite my passions afresh
My perverted mind only responds now
To the cold sweat on your white brow
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a gigolo
As father was I came to be
Your warm white flesh enlightens me
Now you're scared and I'm inspired
but ache to be saved from the fire
Your clear white flesh is my scaffold
And my heaven includes no god
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a gigolo
Your cool white flesh enlightens me
As father was I came to be
Your white flesh arouses me so
I am just a sorry gigolo
Your cold white flesh enlightens me
[lyrics][discuss]
NB: Please see the first draft for notes on skin temperature.
2009-07-06
LILT: Stein Um Stein 1.1
I have a plan, it's grand my dear
I'm building you a house
Every stone shall be a tear
And you will never get out
Yeah, I'll build this house of yours
Without windows and without doors
In it will be dark withal
No light will get in there at all
Yeah I'll make a home for you
You'll be a part of it too
Stone by stone I wall you in
Stone by stone
I'm always there with you within
With no clothes and no shoes
You watch me get to work for you
With your feet sunk in cement
You're a basement ornament
Outside a garden with a stream
And no-one hears you scream
Stone by stone I wall you in
Stone by stone
I'm always there with you within
Such hammering, it's appalling
And outside the night is falling
All my nails are up-standing
Into your trunk my hammer's Ramming...
Stone!
Stone by stone I wall you in
Stone by stone
And no-one hears you scream
[lyrics][discuss]
I'm building you a house
Every stone shall be a tear
And you will never get out
Yeah, I'll build this house of yours
Without windows and without doors
In it will be dark withal
No light will get in there at all
Yeah I'll make a home for you
You'll be a part of it too
Stone by stone I wall you in
Stone by stone
I'm always there with you within
With no clothes and no shoes
You watch me get to work for you
With your feet sunk in cement
You're a basement ornament
Outside a garden with a stream
And no-one hears you scream
Stone by stone I wall you in
Stone by stone
I'm always there with you within
Such hammering, it's appalling
And outside the night is falling
All my nails are up-standing
Into your trunk my hammer's Ramming...
Stone!
Stone by stone I wall you in
Stone by stone
And no-one hears you scream
[lyrics][discuss]
LILT: Amour 1.3
This love is a wild beast
It inhales you as it seeks
Broken hearts will make its nest
It hunts when romance is at its best
It sucks hard on your lips
And burrows in through your ribs
It drops softly as the snow
It burns and then it chills, pain the final blow
Amour Amour
Your mastery's sought by all
Amour Amour not before
They all end between your jaws
This love is a wild beast
It lashes out at me and feasts
A thousand arms around my chest
As it drags me to its nest
It eats me up, every part
And afterward retches me back out
It drops softly as the snow
It burns and then it chills, pain the final blow
Amour Amour
Your mastery's sought by all
Amour Amour not before
They all end between your jaws
Amour Amour
Your mastery's sought by all
Amour Amour not before
They all end between your jaws
This love is a wild beast
It inhales you as it seeks
Broken hearts will make its nest
It hunts when romance is at its best
It eats me up, every part
And afterward retches me back out
It drops softly as the snow
It burns and then it chills, pain the final blow
Amour Amour
Your mastery's sought by all
Amour Amour not before
They all end between your jaws
This love is a wild beast
And its trap is complete
On you its eyes will feast
Enthralled as its gaze hits
Please help me escape it
[lyrics][discuss]
Er, yeah, it's not nearly as pretty as the German chorus, but it's a start. At least I've actually managed to get something.
It inhales you as it seeks
Broken hearts will make its nest
It hunts when romance is at its best
It sucks hard on your lips
And burrows in through your ribs
It drops softly as the snow
It burns and then it chills, pain the final blow
Amour Amour
Your mastery's sought by all
Amour Amour not before
They all end between your jaws
This love is a wild beast
It lashes out at me and feasts
A thousand arms around my chest
As it drags me to its nest
It eats me up, every part
And afterward retches me back out
It drops softly as the snow
It burns and then it chills, pain the final blow
Amour Amour
Your mastery's sought by all
Amour Amour not before
They all end between your jaws
Amour Amour
Your mastery's sought by all
Amour Amour not before
They all end between your jaws
This love is a wild beast
It inhales you as it seeks
Broken hearts will make its nest
It hunts when romance is at its best
It eats me up, every part
And afterward retches me back out
It drops softly as the snow
It burns and then it chills, pain the final blow
Amour Amour
Your mastery's sought by all
Amour Amour not before
They all end between your jaws
This love is a wild beast
And its trap is complete
On you its eyes will feast
Enthralled as its gaze hits
Please help me escape it
[lyrics][discuss]
Er, yeah, it's not nearly as pretty as the German chorus, but it's a start. At least I've actually managed to get something.
LILT: Du Riechst So Gut 3.0
This madness
Is a very narrow bridge
Reason and desire each end
I pursue you
The sunlight dazzles the mind
A blind child crawling seeks
To find its mother's scent
I locate you
The spore is fresh across the bridge
Sweat drops, your heated blood
I can't see through
I smell you, I'm sensing you
A raptor screaming out its yen
Tracking you for miles by scent
You smell so good
You smell so good
I chase after you
You smell so good
I locate you
- So good – So good
I pursue you
You smell so good
Soon I'll have you
Now you are mine
I wait till darkness falls
Then I touch your moist skin
Betray me not
Ah see how the bridge burns
Don't cry out or resist
Lest we lose the bridge
You smell so good
You smell so good
I chase after you
You smell so good
I locate you
- So good – So good
I pursue you
You smell so good
Soon I'll have you
You smell so good
You smell so good
I chase after you
You smell so good
I locate you
- So good – So good
I reach for you
You smell so good
I have you now
You smell so good
You smell so good
I chase after you
[lyrics][discuss]
Is a very narrow bridge
Reason and desire each end
I pursue you
The sunlight dazzles the mind
A blind child crawling seeks
To find its mother's scent
I locate you
The spore is fresh across the bridge
Sweat drops, your heated blood
I can't see through
I smell you, I'm sensing you
A raptor screaming out its yen
Tracking you for miles by scent
You smell so good
You smell so good
I chase after you
You smell so good
I locate you
- So good – So good
I pursue you
You smell so good
Soon I'll have you
Now you are mine
I wait till darkness falls
Then I touch your moist skin
Betray me not
Ah see how the bridge burns
Don't cry out or resist
Lest we lose the bridge
You smell so good
You smell so good
I chase after you
You smell so good
I locate you
- So good – So good
I pursue you
You smell so good
Soon I'll have you
You smell so good
You smell so good
I chase after you
You smell so good
I locate you
- So good – So good
I reach for you
You smell so good
I have you now
You smell so good
You smell so good
I chase after you
[lyrics][discuss]
2009-07-05
LILT: Keine Lust 1.2
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire at all for myself
Have no desire to paw at myself
I might desire some masturbation
Have no desire to undertake it
I might desire getting unclothed
Have no desire to be exposed
I might desire it with the big beasts
Have no desire to take such a risk
Have no desire to leave the snow
No desire to freeze like this
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire
No I have no desire
I have no desire at all to ingest
I have no desire at all to digest
No desire to know my weight
No desire to lie in my fat
I might desire it with the big beasts
Have no desire to take such a risk
Have no desire to leave the snow
No desire to freeze like this
I'll just stay here where I lie
And try to re-count all the flies
Listlessly I touch myself
And notice I've been frigid for so long
Frigid
I am cold
So cold
I am cold...
I have no desire
[lyrics][discuss]
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire at all for myself
Have no desire to paw at myself
I might desire some masturbation
Have no desire to undertake it
I might desire getting unclothed
Have no desire to be exposed
I might desire it with the big beasts
Have no desire to take such a risk
Have no desire to leave the snow
No desire to freeze like this
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire
No I have no desire
I have no desire at all to ingest
I have no desire at all to digest
No desire to know my weight
No desire to lie in my fat
I might desire it with the big beasts
Have no desire to take such a risk
Have no desire to leave the snow
No desire to freeze like this
I'll just stay here where I lie
And try to re-count all the flies
Listlessly I touch myself
And notice I've been frigid for so long
Frigid
I am cold
So cold
I am cold...
I have no desire
[lyrics][discuss]
2009-07-04
There's something about...where?
It has to be said that being in the middle of nowhere, with a lovely outlook and time to reflect, eat, drink, day-dream, and imagine, is good for the soul and creativity. I've written more verse and made more progress with LILT since I've been in Greece that ever before. It's crazy how submerged I become in metaphorical imagery when there aren't distractions (day job, real life, etc).
Right now everyone else is asleep. The whole village, that is. Not just the family. Silence reigns, and my mind is burning with images. I'm going to grab a beer and go and sit on the front steps (Macbook makes me happy and portable), so I can write and mess about with ideas, and look at the Agean, the olive trees, and the lovely (terribly stereotypical) village houses.
Shutters are closed or barely ajar. The air isn't moving. Insects are going about their daily business of eating, working, fucking, and dying. Sheep are dozing. The sea is hardly moving, and the clouds are building fortifications above the limestone marble cliffs that protect us here. Colours are blued by the heat haze, and I can't think of anywhere I'd rather be right now...except maybe down at the sea... or in the sea.
Yesterday I heard a bell, and thinking a sheep was loose I looked out the kitchen window. It was a mule, dragging his lead rope, and looking appropriately sheepish. All beasts of burden and production here wear bells. It's weird. In New Zealand only cats where the damned things, and those only to curb their natural abilities as hunters.
Maybe I should write something about the anthills that we call cities, predators in bondage, and mules...
[discuss]
[Update: Hmm, turned out to be something quite different]
Right now everyone else is asleep. The whole village, that is. Not just the family. Silence reigns, and my mind is burning with images. I'm going to grab a beer and go and sit on the front steps (Macbook makes me happy and portable), so I can write and mess about with ideas, and look at the Agean, the olive trees, and the lovely (terribly stereotypical) village houses.
Shutters are closed or barely ajar. The air isn't moving. Insects are going about their daily business of eating, working, fucking, and dying. Sheep are dozing. The sea is hardly moving, and the clouds are building fortifications above the limestone marble cliffs that protect us here. Colours are blued by the heat haze, and I can't think of anywhere I'd rather be right now...except maybe down at the sea... or in the sea.
Yesterday I heard a bell, and thinking a sheep was loose I looked out the kitchen window. It was a mule, dragging his lead rope, and looking appropriately sheepish. All beasts of burden and production here wear bells. It's weird. In New Zealand only cats where the damned things, and those only to curb their natural abilities as hunters.
Maybe I should write something about the anthills that we call cities, predators in bondage, and mules...
[discuss]
[Update: Hmm, turned out to be something quite different]
2009-07-03
LILT: Keine Lust 1.1
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire at all for myself
Have no desire to paw at myself
I might desire some masturbation
Have no desire to undertake it
I might desire getting unclothed
Have no desire to be exposed
I might desire it with the big beasts
Have no desire to take such a risk
Have no desire to leave the snow
No desire to be cold as this
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire
No I have no desire
I have no desire at all to ingest
I have no desire at all to digest
No desire to know my weight
No desire to lie in my fat
I might desire it with the big beasts
Have no desire to take such a risk
Have no desire to leave the snow
No desire to be cold as this
I'll just stay here where I lie
And try to re-count all the flies
Listlessly I touch myself
And notice I've been frigid for so long
Frigid
I am cold
So cold
I am cold...
I have no desire
This is still problematic, but I'm getting somewhere with it. I may yet need to alter the imagery somewhat.
[lyrics][discuss]
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire at all for myself
Have no desire to paw at myself
I might desire some masturbation
Have no desire to undertake it
I might desire getting unclothed
Have no desire to be exposed
I might desire it with the big beasts
Have no desire to take such a risk
Have no desire to leave the snow
No desire to be cold as this
I have no desire
I have no desire
I have no desire
No I have no desire
I have no desire at all to ingest
I have no desire at all to digest
No desire to know my weight
No desire to lie in my fat
I might desire it with the big beasts
Have no desire to take such a risk
Have no desire to leave the snow
No desire to be cold as this
I'll just stay here where I lie
And try to re-count all the flies
Listlessly I touch myself
And notice I've been frigid for so long
Frigid
I am cold
So cold
I am cold...
I have no desire
This is still problematic, but I'm getting somewhere with it. I may yet need to alter the imagery somewhat.
[lyrics][discuss]
LILT: Wo Bist Du 3.0
My love
My lover
My lover, you, my love for you
My love for you is no more or less
Than your love for me was
When your love was for me
There was beauty, now it's gone
There was heat, and now there's none
All the clocks are standing still
Laughing is all wrong, and before long
I seek sight beyond the light
Where are you, where are you
Oh I won't survive alone
Where are you, where are you
There was beauty, now it's gone
There was heat, now there's none
All the clocks stand still
Laughing is all wrong, and before long
I seek some sight beyond the light
Where are you, where are you
Oh I won't survive alone
Where are you, where are you
I'm looking under every stone
Where are you, where are you
I sleep with my knife prone
Where are you...
[lyrics][discuss]
It still bugs me that English doesn't allow for the slick opening in the German lyrics, but I've done my best :(
My lover
My lover, you, my love for you
My love for you is no more or less
Than your love for me was
When your love was for me
There was beauty, now it's gone
There was heat, and now there's none
All the clocks are standing still
Laughing is all wrong, and before long
I seek sight beyond the light
Where are you, where are you
Oh I won't survive alone
Where are you, where are you
There was beauty, now it's gone
There was heat, now there's none
All the clocks stand still
Laughing is all wrong, and before long
I seek some sight beyond the light
Where are you, where are you
Oh I won't survive alone
Where are you, where are you
I'm looking under every stone
Where are you, where are you
I sleep with my knife prone
Where are you...
[lyrics][discuss]
It still bugs me that English doesn't allow for the slick opening in the German lyrics, but I've done my best :(
LILT: Sonne 3.0
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, out
All are waiting for the light
Some fearless, some cowed in fright
My eyes are glowing with the sun
Which tonight will not succumb
Even when the count's begun
One
Here comes the sun
Two
Here comes the sun
Three
It is the brightest star bar none
Four
Here comes the sun
The sun is shining from my hands
It can burn you where you stand
Sunlight flares out from my fists
It burns your face like a kiss
And the sun it won't succumb
Even when the count's begun
One
Here comes the sun
Two
Here comes the sun
Three
It is the brightest star bar none
Four
Here comes the sun
Five
Here comes the sun
Six
Here comes the sun
Seven
It is the brightest star bar none
Eight, nine
Here comes the sun
The sun is shining from my hands
It will burn you where you stand
Sunlight flares out from my fists
It burns your face like a kiss
It burns right through your chest
Then you are reeling, hard pressed
Down to gaze up at the sun
And then the count's begun
One
Here comes the sun
Two
Here comes the sun
Three
It is the brightest star bar none
Four
And it will never be undone
Five
Here comes the sun
Six
Here comes the sun
Seven
It is the brightest star bar none
Eight, nine
Here comes the sun
[lyrics][discuss]
All are waiting for the light
Some fearless, some cowed in fright
My eyes are glowing with the sun
Which tonight will not succumb
Even when the count's begun
One
Here comes the sun
Two
Here comes the sun
Three
It is the brightest star bar none
Four
Here comes the sun
The sun is shining from my hands
It can burn you where you stand
Sunlight flares out from my fists
It burns your face like a kiss
And the sun it won't succumb
Even when the count's begun
One
Here comes the sun
Two
Here comes the sun
Three
It is the brightest star bar none
Four
Here comes the sun
Five
Here comes the sun
Six
Here comes the sun
Seven
It is the brightest star bar none
Eight, nine
Here comes the sun
The sun is shining from my hands
It will burn you where you stand
Sunlight flares out from my fists
It burns your face like a kiss
It burns right through your chest
Then you are reeling, hard pressed
Down to gaze up at the sun
And then the count's begun
One
Here comes the sun
Two
Here comes the sun
Three
It is the brightest star bar none
Four
And it will never be undone
Five
Here comes the sun
Six
Here comes the sun
Seven
It is the brightest star bar none
Eight, nine
Here comes the sun
[lyrics][discuss]
2009-07-02
LILT: Mutter 3.1
The ancient children shed cold tears
I thread those onto a white hair
I hurl the whole thing in the air
And wish that I had my own mother
No sun shines down on me
There's no milk-filled breast to feed
There's a tube that chokes my gullet
I've no navel on my stomach
Mother
I've had no nipple on which to suckle
I've had no warm place I was tucked in
I've never had a proper naming
Sired in haste and without semen
To the mother that never bore me
I have on this night sworn
To send her a painful fever
Then submerge her in the river
Mother
In her lungs there lives an eel
On my forehead the mark is sealed
I'll cut it out with a knife
Even if it ends my life
Mother
In her lungs there lives an eel
On my forehead the mark is sealed
Purge it with a knife's keen edge
Even if I bleed to death
Mother
Oh grant me strength
[lyrics][discuss]
I'm not sure. I've gone back to 'mother' in verse one (as opposed to mère), but I may go back. I've also fixed the rhythmic issues in verse three.
I thread those onto a white hair
I hurl the whole thing in the air
And wish that I had my own mother
No sun shines down on me
There's no milk-filled breast to feed
There's a tube that chokes my gullet
I've no navel on my stomach
Mother
I've had no nipple on which to suckle
I've had no warm place I was tucked in
I've never had a proper naming
Sired in haste and without semen
To the mother that never bore me
I have on this night sworn
To send her a painful fever
Then submerge her in the river
Mother
In her lungs there lives an eel
On my forehead the mark is sealed
I'll cut it out with a knife
Even if it ends my life
Mother
In her lungs there lives an eel
On my forehead the mark is sealed
Purge it with a knife's keen edge
Even if I bleed to death
Mother
Oh grant me strength
[lyrics][discuss]
I'm not sure. I've gone back to 'mother' in verse one (as opposed to mère), but I may go back. I've also fixed the rhythmic issues in verse three.
Rammstein Summary
A kid posted the other day on RammsteinNicCage.Com, asking for people to outline their thoughts with regard to Rammstein, for a school assignment he's doing. I posted with a summary of my history with the music and also my thoughts about it, and figure I might as well post the same here, since this site is all about Rammstein:
I got into Rammstein when a gaming buddy DCCed me Sehnsucht via IRC when we were chatting in a Quake channel about what we listen to when we frag. I listened to nothing else for about a week of fragging (two hours a day at least) and fell in love with the sound. I went out and bought the album, and fragged to it for ages. It anchored my general music listening for over a year. That was just before Mutter came out, but the idiot who sold me Sehnsucht didn't have the forethought to let me know a new album as coming, so I didn't know, and after thrashing Sehnsucht I lost touch with the band.
Earlier this year I saw a Rammstein track called Los on another person's iPod, and it struck me that I'd stopped attending to a band I'd loved before, and I tracked down all their subsequent albums and Herzeleid. I just fell in love all over again and went out and bought all their albums and DVDs, including a replacement copy of Sehnsucht, which I had lost at some point.
I never knew what the lyrics meant until this year. I just loved the flow of the words, and found the whole package intensely provocative. This year I found Herzeleid.Com and Jeremy Williams's translations, and developed a whole new level of enjoyment from the music as a result. I started my own lyrical project (adapting Jeremy's translations into English lyrics), and have become a bit of an addict.
Rammstein's lyrics are stunning.
I listen to Rammstein all the time, doing a range of things (sleeping, working, day-dreaming, writing, etc.), and even after hundreds of times through (I keep all five albums on continuous shuffle along with Worlds Collide by Apocalyptica on my iPod) I get that same frisson from the lyrics that I did in February.
I've even been inspired to write my own lyrics by Rammstein's work.
Rammstein's consistency in composing and performing in German is an indication of how intensely talented they are. The English-speaking world is traditionally seriously closed-minded about non-English performers who don't perform in English, so I think Rammstein's success is much more telling than that of other bands, such as ABBA, who have transitioned into English lyrics. The fact that they have a crap-load of fans who do not understand their lyrics and still get the excitement and drive of it, and are as loyal as the German-speaking fans is great, but I recently discovered that the Mexican fan-base take it to another level, and actually know all the German lyrics, verbatim! To memorise such a large body of text in another language like that, so you can sing along for entire songs, en mass, is incredible! I'd say it's probably unprecedented, and may never be seen again.
Another aspect of Rammstein that makes them interesting is their eclectic style. They stand astride many musical genres, and meld them together very successfully. Opera, metal, industrial, dance, blues, grunge, classical, love ballads, power ballads; it's all there. They are unclassifiable, because of this success in fusing sounds. I've called their genre Rammstein, but you could also call them a fusion band, because that is precisely what they do, song after song, album after album, and every single piece they release is chock full of drama, passion, humour, and an unholy joy for rhythm, pace, and story-telling.
Love them or hate them, Rammstein are unique and special.
[discuss]
I got into Rammstein when a gaming buddy DCCed me Sehnsucht via IRC when we were chatting in a Quake channel about what we listen to when we frag. I listened to nothing else for about a week of fragging (two hours a day at least) and fell in love with the sound. I went out and bought the album, and fragged to it for ages. It anchored my general music listening for over a year. That was just before Mutter came out, but the idiot who sold me Sehnsucht didn't have the forethought to let me know a new album as coming, so I didn't know, and after thrashing Sehnsucht I lost touch with the band.
Earlier this year I saw a Rammstein track called Los on another person's iPod, and it struck me that I'd stopped attending to a band I'd loved before, and I tracked down all their subsequent albums and Herzeleid. I just fell in love all over again and went out and bought all their albums and DVDs, including a replacement copy of Sehnsucht, which I had lost at some point.
I never knew what the lyrics meant until this year. I just loved the flow of the words, and found the whole package intensely provocative. This year I found Herzeleid.Com and Jeremy Williams's translations, and developed a whole new level of enjoyment from the music as a result. I started my own lyrical project (adapting Jeremy's translations into English lyrics), and have become a bit of an addict.
Rammstein's lyrics are stunning.
I listen to Rammstein all the time, doing a range of things (sleeping, working, day-dreaming, writing, etc.), and even after hundreds of times through (I keep all five albums on continuous shuffle along with Worlds Collide by Apocalyptica on my iPod) I get that same frisson from the lyrics that I did in February.
I've even been inspired to write my own lyrics by Rammstein's work.
Rammstein's consistency in composing and performing in German is an indication of how intensely talented they are. The English-speaking world is traditionally seriously closed-minded about non-English performers who don't perform in English, so I think Rammstein's success is much more telling than that of other bands, such as ABBA, who have transitioned into English lyrics. The fact that they have a crap-load of fans who do not understand their lyrics and still get the excitement and drive of it, and are as loyal as the German-speaking fans is great, but I recently discovered that the Mexican fan-base take it to another level, and actually know all the German lyrics, verbatim! To memorise such a large body of text in another language like that, so you can sing along for entire songs, en mass, is incredible! I'd say it's probably unprecedented, and may never be seen again.
Another aspect of Rammstein that makes them interesting is their eclectic style. They stand astride many musical genres, and meld them together very successfully. Opera, metal, industrial, dance, blues, grunge, classical, love ballads, power ballads; it's all there. They are unclassifiable, because of this success in fusing sounds. I've called their genre Rammstein, but you could also call them a fusion band, because that is precisely what they do, song after song, album after album, and every single piece they release is chock full of drama, passion, humour, and an unholy joy for rhythm, pace, and story-telling.
Love them or hate them, Rammstein are unique and special.
[discuss]
LILT: Engel 3.0
For those who're good in life there will
Be life after death as an angel
You should look up and contemplate
Why you can't see the angels' place
Look up here when the high clouds sleep
See us up here where we weep
Alone and so afeared are we
An angel's the last thing I'll ever be
Beyond the light is where they stay
They're infinitely far away
From their stars they cannot stray (hold tight)
So they will not lose their way
Look up here when the high clouds sleep
See us up here where we weep
Alone and so afeared are we
An angel's the last thing I'll ever be
Look up here when the high clouds sleep
See us up here where we weep
Alone and so afeared are we
An angel's the last thing I'd ever be
[lyrics][discuss]
Be life after death as an angel
You should look up and contemplate
Why you can't see the angels' place
Look up here when the high clouds sleep
See us up here where we weep
Alone and so afeared are we
An angel's the last thing I'll ever be
Beyond the light is where they stay
They're infinitely far away
From their stars they cannot stray (hold tight)
So they will not lose their way
Look up here when the high clouds sleep
See us up here where we weep
Alone and so afeared are we
An angel's the last thing I'll ever be
Look up here when the high clouds sleep
See us up here where we weep
Alone and so afeared are we
An angel's the last thing I'd ever be
[lyrics][discuss]
LILT: Reise Reise 3.0
Even at sea there is fighting
Flesh and fish enmesh with ocean
Soldiers with their lances lunge
At sea the lance is plunged
Ah Ahoy
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
Each man thinks his way is wiser
Man will be impaled with one
With the other fish are won
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
And the waves are softly crying
They bleed as they're run through
And red runs through The Blue
The lance must be drowned in the flesh
Fish and man sink into the depths
Where the blackest soul abides
The horizon shows no light
Ah Ahoy
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
Each man thinks his way is wiser
Man will be impaled with one
With the other fish are won
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
And the waves are softly crying
They bleed as they're run through
And red runs through The Blue
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
And the waves are softly crying
They bleed red as they're gored
They are bled dry on the shore
Promoted.
[lyrics][discuss]
Flesh and fish enmesh with ocean
Soldiers with their lances lunge
At sea the lance is plunged
Ah Ahoy
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
Each man thinks his way is wiser
Man will be impaled with one
With the other fish are won
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
And the waves are softly crying
They bleed as they're run through
And red runs through The Blue
The lance must be drowned in the flesh
Fish and man sink into the depths
Where the blackest soul abides
The horizon shows no light
Ah Ahoy
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
Each man thinks his way is wiser
Man will be impaled with one
With the other fish are won
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
And the waves are softly crying
They bleed as they're run through
And red runs through The Blue
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
And the waves are softly crying
They bleed red as they're gored
They are bled dry on the shore
Promoted.
[lyrics][discuss]
LILT: Reise Reise 3.0
Even at sea there is fighting
Flesh and fish enmesh with ocean
Soldiers with their lances lunge
At sea the lance is plunged
Ah Ahoy
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
Each man thinks his way is wiser
Man will be impaled with one
With the other fish are won
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
And the waves are softly crying
They bleed as they're run through
And red runs through The Blue
The lance must be drowned in the flesh
Fish and man sink into the depths
Where the blackest soul abides
The horizon shows no light
Ah Ahoy
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
Each man thinks his way is wiser
Man will be impaled with one
With the other fish are won
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
And the waves are softly crying
They bleed as they're run through
And red runs through The Blue
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
And the waves are softly crying
They bleed red as they're gored
They are bled dry on the shore
Promoted.
[lyrics][discuss]
Flesh and fish enmesh with ocean
Soldiers with their lances lunge
At sea the lance is plunged
Ah Ahoy
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
Each man thinks his way is wiser
Man will be impaled with one
With the other fish are won
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
And the waves are softly crying
They bleed as they're run through
And red runs through The Blue
The lance must be drowned in the flesh
Fish and man sink into the depths
Where the blackest soul abides
The horizon shows no light
Ah Ahoy
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
Each man thinks his way is wiser
Man will be impaled with one
With the other fish are won
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
And the waves are softly crying
They bleed as they're run through
And red runs through The Blue
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
And the waves are softly crying
They bleed red as they're gored
They are bled dry on the shore
Promoted.
[lyrics][discuss]
LILT: Wo Bist Du 1.3
My love
My lover
My lover you, my love for you
My love for you is no more or less
Than your love for me was
When your love was for me
There was beauty, now it's gone
There was heat, and now there's none
All the clocks stand still
Laughing is all wrong, and before long
I seek sight beyond the light
Where are you, where are you
Oh I won't survive alone
Where are you, where are you
There was beauty, now it's gone
There was heat, now there's none
All the clocks stand still
Laughing is all wrong, and before long
I seek some sight beyond the light
Where are you, where are you
Oh I won't survive alone
Where are you, where are you
I'm looking under every stone
Where are you, where are you
I sleep with my knife prone
Where are you...
[lyrics][discuss]
My lover
My lover you, my love for you
My love for you is no more or less
Than your love for me was
When your love was for me
There was beauty, now it's gone
There was heat, and now there's none
All the clocks stand still
Laughing is all wrong, and before long
I seek sight beyond the light
Where are you, where are you
Oh I won't survive alone
Where are you, where are you
There was beauty, now it's gone
There was heat, now there's none
All the clocks stand still
Laughing is all wrong, and before long
I seek some sight beyond the light
Where are you, where are you
Oh I won't survive alone
Where are you, where are you
I'm looking under every stone
Where are you, where are you
I sleep with my knife prone
Where are you...
[lyrics][discuss]
2009-07-01
LILT: Reise Reise 1.2
Even at sea there is fighting
Flesh and fish enmesh with ocean
Soldiers with their lances lunge
At sea the lance is plunged
Ah Ahoy
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
Each man thinks his way is wiser
Man will be impaled with one
With the other fish are won
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
And the waves are softly crying
They bleed as they're run through
And red runs through The Blue
The lance must be drowned in the flesh
Fish and man sink into the depths
Where the blackest soul abides
The horizon shows no light
Ah Ahoy
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
Each man thinks his way is wiser
Man will be impaled with one
With the other fish are won
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
And the waves are softly crying
They bleed as they're run through
And red runs through The Blue
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
And the waves are softly crying
They bleed red as they're gored
They are bled dry on the shore
[lyrics][discuss]
Flesh and fish enmesh with ocean
Soldiers with their lances lunge
At sea the lance is plunged
Ah Ahoy
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
Each man thinks his way is wiser
Man will be impaled with one
With the other fish are won
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
And the waves are softly crying
They bleed as they're run through
And red runs through The Blue
The lance must be drowned in the flesh
Fish and man sink into the depths
Where the blackest soul abides
The horizon shows no light
Ah Ahoy
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
Each man thinks his way is wiser
Man will be impaled with one
With the other fish are won
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
And the waves are softly crying
They bleed as they're run through
And red runs through The Blue
Rise up, rise up, seaman rise up
And the waves are softly crying
They bleed red as they're gored
They are bled dry on the shore
[lyrics][discuss]
LILT: Engel 1.1
For those who're good in life there will
Be life past their death as an angel
You should look up and contemplate
Why you can't see the angels' place
Look up here when the high clouds sleep
See us up here where we weep
Alone and so afeared are we
An angel's the last thing I'll ever be
Beyond the light is where they stay
They're infinitely far away
From their stars they cannot stray (hold tight)
So they will not lose their way
Look up here when the high clouds sleep
See us up here where we weep
Alone and so afeared are we
An angel's the last thing I'll ever be
Look up here when the high clouds sleep
See us up here where we weep
Alone and so afeared are we
An angel's the last thing I'd ever be
[lyrics][discuss]
This has grown on me. I actually like it now.
I've mixed it up a bit with the last thing in this version though. I've made the first few choruses 'last thing I'll ever be', rather than 'last thing I'd ever be'. The reason for this is it maintains a certain degree of ambiguity about the usage of last until the end...not that any Rammstein fan finds the song remotely ambiguous where the desires of the character are concerned. I'm just pretending this is a crunchy new song, despite it being more than a decade old, and thoroughly thrashed, as well as recorded in English previously.
*sigh*
Be life past their death as an angel
You should look up and contemplate
Why you can't see the angels' place
Look up here when the high clouds sleep
See us up here where we weep
Alone and so afeared are we
An angel's the last thing I'll ever be
Beyond the light is where they stay
They're infinitely far away
From their stars they cannot stray (hold tight)
So they will not lose their way
Look up here when the high clouds sleep
See us up here where we weep
Alone and so afeared are we
An angel's the last thing I'll ever be
Look up here when the high clouds sleep
See us up here where we weep
Alone and so afeared are we
An angel's the last thing I'd ever be
[lyrics][discuss]
This has grown on me. I actually like it now.
I've mixed it up a bit with the last thing in this version though. I've made the first few choruses 'last thing I'll ever be', rather than 'last thing I'd ever be'. The reason for this is it maintains a certain degree of ambiguity about the usage of last until the end...not that any Rammstein fan finds the song remotely ambiguous where the desires of the character are concerned. I'm just pretending this is a crunchy new song, despite it being more than a decade old, and thoroughly thrashed, as well as recorded in English previously.
*sigh*
LILT: Du Riechst So Gut 1.2
This madness
Is a very narrow bridge
Reason and desire each end
I pursue you
The sunlight dazzles the mind
A blind baby crawling over
To where it can smell its mother
I locate you
The fresh trail crosses the bridge
Sweat drops, your heated blood
I can't see through
I smell you, I sense you
A raptor screaming out its yen
Tracking you for miles by scent
You smell so good
You smell so good
I chase after you
You smell so good
I locate you
- So good – So good
I pursue you
You smell so good
Soon I'll have you
Now you are mine
I wait till* darkness falls
Then I touch your moist skin
Betray me not
Ah see how the bridge burns
Don't cry out or resist
Lest it be demolished
You smell so good
You smell so good
I chase after you
You smell so good
I locate you
- So good – So good
I pursue you
You smell so good
Soon I'll have you
You smell so good
You smell so good
I chase after you
You smell so good
I locate you
- So good – So good
I reach for you
You smell so good
I have you now
You smell so good
You smell so good
I chase after you
[lyrics][discuss]
* Had to be done.
Is a very narrow bridge
Reason and desire each end
I pursue you
The sunlight dazzles the mind
A blind baby crawling over
To where it can smell its mother
I locate you
The fresh trail crosses the bridge
Sweat drops, your heated blood
I can't see through
I smell you, I sense you
A raptor screaming out its yen
Tracking you for miles by scent
You smell so good
You smell so good
I chase after you
You smell so good
I locate you
- So good – So good
I pursue you
You smell so good
Soon I'll have you
Now you are mine
I wait till* darkness falls
Then I touch your moist skin
Betray me not
Ah see how the bridge burns
Don't cry out or resist
Lest it be demolished
You smell so good
You smell so good
I chase after you
You smell so good
I locate you
- So good – So good
I pursue you
You smell so good
Soon I'll have you
You smell so good
You smell so good
I chase after you
You smell so good
I locate you
- So good – So good
I reach for you
You smell so good
I have you now
You smell so good
You smell so good
I chase after you
[lyrics][discuss]
* Had to be done.
LILT: Amerika 3.0
We're all living in America
America is so super
We're all living in America
America, America
When we dance I want to lead
Even if you're spinning alone
You should let yourself accede
I'll show you how it really goes
We're dancing nicely as we spin
And freedom plays the violins
Music comes from the White House
Paris is held by Mickey Mouse
We're all living in America
America is so super
We're all living in America
America, America
I know some really handy moves
I'll keep you dancing in the groove
Those who won't dance can trust
they will find that they must
We're dancing nicely as we spin
I'll show you how you must fit in
As Africa gets Santa Claus
And Paris goes to Mickey Mouse
We're all living in America
America is so super
We're all living in America
America, America
We're all living in America
Coca Cola, Wonderbra
We're all living in America
America, America
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
I don't sing my mother-tongue
No, this is not a love song
We're all living in America
America is so super
We're all living in America
America, America
We're all living in America
Coca-Cola, sometimes war
We're all living in America
America, America
Promoted.
[lyrics][discuss]
I'm still not sure about this one, but after weeks of going over it again and again I'm thinking this is as good as it's going to get, which isn't that good. Feck.
America is so super
We're all living in America
America, America
When we dance I want to lead
Even if you're spinning alone
You should let yourself accede
I'll show you how it really goes
We're dancing nicely as we spin
And freedom plays the violins
Music comes from the White House
Paris is held by Mickey Mouse
We're all living in America
America is so super
We're all living in America
America, America
I know some really handy moves
I'll keep you dancing in the groove
Those who won't dance can trust
they will find that they must
We're dancing nicely as we spin
I'll show you how you must fit in
As Africa gets Santa Claus
And Paris goes to Mickey Mouse
We're all living in America
America is so super
We're all living in America
America, America
We're all living in America
Coca Cola, Wonderbra
We're all living in America
America, America
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
I don't sing my mother-tongue
No, this is not a love song
We're all living in America
America is so super
We're all living in America
America, America
We're all living in America
Coca-Cola, sometimes war
We're all living in America
America, America
Promoted.
[lyrics][discuss]
I'm still not sure about this one, but after weeks of going over it again and again I'm thinking this is as good as it's going to get, which isn't that good. Feck.
LILT: Feuer Frei 1.1
Judgement comes to the hurt
from fire that will leave them burnt
I illuminate
My own face
A fevered cry
Open Fire!
Bang bang
Those in pain are raised by
the flames that burn in desire
A searing roar
Into her core
A fevered cry
Open Fire!
Bang bang
Open Fire!
Those in pain are a peril
From fire burning through the soul
Bang bang
The burnt child will bring strife
With flames that take from life
A fevered cry
Bang bang
Open Fire!
Your joy
Is not my joy
It's my sorrow
Bang bang
Open Fire!
[lyrics][discuss]
from fire that will leave them burnt
I illuminate
My own face
A fevered cry
Open Fire!
Bang bang
Those in pain are raised by
the flames that burn in desire
A searing roar
Into her core
A fevered cry
Open Fire!
Bang bang
Open Fire!
Those in pain are a peril
From fire burning through the soul
Bang bang
The burnt child will bring strife
With flames that take from life
A fevered cry
Bang bang
Open Fire!
Your joy
Is not my joy
It's my sorrow
Bang bang
Open Fire!
[lyrics][discuss]
LILT: Rosenrot 3.0
A young lady noticed a rose
Up the mountain where they grow
So she went and asked her beloved
If the rose could be recovered
She really wants it which is fine
That's how the story's gone throughout time
Such whims are often met
What she desires she shall get
Truly deep wells must be bored
If clear water's what you seek
Rosenrot oh Rosenrot
Undercurrents run down deep
The tortured boy then climbs the tor
The vista's not what he's there for
A small rose his only care
Which he retrieves for his dear
She really wants it which is fine
That's how the story's gone throughout time
Such whims are often met
What she desires she shall get
Truly deep wells must be bored
If clear water's what you seek
Rosenrot oh Rosenrot
Undercurrents run down deep
Truly deep wells must be bored
If clear water's what you seek
Rosenrot oh Rosenrot
Undercurrents run down deep
But when his stony foothold breaks
He thinks his route a mistake
His last scream informs them all
He and the red rose have fallen
She really wants it which is fine
That's how the story's gone throughout time
Such whims are often met
What she desires she shall get
Truly deep wells must be bored
If clear water's what you seek
Rosenrot oh Rosenrot
Undercurrents run down deep
[lyrics][discuss]
Up the mountain where they grow
So she went and asked her beloved
If the rose could be recovered
She really wants it which is fine
That's how the story's gone throughout time
Such whims are often met
What she desires she shall get
Truly deep wells must be bored
If clear water's what you seek
Rosenrot oh Rosenrot
Undercurrents run down deep
The tortured boy then climbs the tor
The vista's not what he's there for
A small rose his only care
Which he retrieves for his dear
She really wants it which is fine
That's how the story's gone throughout time
Such whims are often met
What she desires she shall get
Truly deep wells must be bored
If clear water's what you seek
Rosenrot oh Rosenrot
Undercurrents run down deep
Truly deep wells must be bored
If clear water's what you seek
Rosenrot oh Rosenrot
Undercurrents run down deep
But when his stony foothold breaks
He thinks his route a mistake
His last scream informs them all
He and the red rose have fallen
She really wants it which is fine
That's how the story's gone throughout time
Such whims are often met
What she desires she shall get
Truly deep wells must be bored
If clear water's what you seek
Rosenrot oh Rosenrot
Undercurrents run down deep
[lyrics][discuss]
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