Moments of complete idiocy aside, I'm quite pleased with my first effort on this one. I like the song, and it's nice to be happy with the first result, right off the bat:
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 in flesh be drowned
Fish and man are sinking down
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 as they are gored
They are bled dry on the shore
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Also, I've now tackled just over 50 % of the Rammstein album catalogue. That's quite a milestone :)
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2009-06-30
2009-06-25
Approaching 50 %
When it comes to passive creativity I've had trouble lately. My imagination works, but I don't have the concentration to read. Given that 50 - 100 % of my down-time has been spent reading since I was a small child this has been a considerable loss for me. Right now I read no books per week, rather than the three to five I normally read. I pick up books, be they new or old favourites, and can't get past a few pages.
Since March I've replaced reading with writing, and it's filled a gap that I couldn't leave empty. In that time I have adapted almost half of Rammstein's album catalogue to English and written a few of my own original pieces. I've also increased my English vocabulary and gained a small but very specific German one.
I would have gone bonky without this. It's increased my quality of life and has engendered in me a real passion for lyrical writing. Eventually I'd like to try and do something more useful with this, but I don't know how to go about that.
I have no idea why Lindemann's words attract me so strongly or give me the frisson they do, but I'm grateful to him for his work, and hope he puts out a lot more in future.
In the meantime I have some more Rammstein songs to adapt and the promise of their new album to keep me going. I really do hope I can get the reading groove back, but if I can't maybe I can have a career as a lyricist one day...
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15 weeks
150 posts
470 visits
25 LILTs / 55 songs
Since March I've replaced reading with writing, and it's filled a gap that I couldn't leave empty. In that time I have adapted almost half of Rammstein's album catalogue to English and written a few of my own original pieces. I've also increased my English vocabulary and gained a small but very specific German one.
I would have gone bonky without this. It's increased my quality of life and has engendered in me a real passion for lyrical writing. Eventually I'd like to try and do something more useful with this, but I don't know how to go about that.
I have no idea why Lindemann's words attract me so strongly or give me the frisson they do, but I'm grateful to him for his work, and hope he puts out a lot more in future.
In the meantime I have some more Rammstein songs to adapt and the promise of their new album to keep me going. I really do hope I can get the reading groove back, but if I can't maybe I can have a career as a lyricist one day...
[discuss]
15 weeks
150 posts
470 visits
25 LILTs / 55 songs
2009-05-18
Am I Completely Insane?
Yesterday I realised that I'm now working on a quarter of Rammstein's album catalogue with this project. That's a decent proportion of 10 years of work from the band.
I mentioned this to my mother and she thinks I'm mad. I don't agree. I'm enjoying it, I've been developing my lyrical skills, and I have absolutely no objection to spending time inside Lindemann's mind (as far as I can from where I am). These are all positive results, and don't even take into account those of you who've taken an interest in and enjoy my work.
Even if my efforts never make it into a cover band's set-list I think this is all worthwhile.
[discuss]
I mentioned this to my mother and she thinks I'm mad. I don't agree. I'm enjoying it, I've been developing my lyrical skills, and I have absolutely no objection to spending time inside Lindemann's mind (as far as I can from where I am). These are all positive results, and don't even take into account those of you who've taken an interest in and enjoy my work.
Even if my efforts never make it into a cover band's set-list I think this is all worthwhile.
[discuss]
2009-04-30
The First Milestone
I've today posted my tenth LILT. I actually think it's my best one, and it's version 1.0. It may be that I go back to it, as I have with Ohne Dich, and fail to see a way to improve it. I don't know if that means I'm done with a song. I don't think so. I think they'll be numbered for a fair while yet, just in case...
Odds are I will look my '1.0' songs over at some point, and something will slide into place and I'll have to keep working. Since I'm not on any kind of production schedule I can keep working on these pieces indefinitely, which is something Till doesn't get to do. Once it's recorded it's pinned into the case, like a dead insect, and he can't go back and make changes.
I do feel a drive to get them perfect, but I'm not sure I'm capable of perfection at this point, so I'm not rushing to remove the versioning quite yet. The numbers can be viewed as training wheels. I won't be rid of them until I've peaked.
Ein Lied is a bit special in any case. It's a song that pushes all kinds of buttons for me, at the moment. It's very sweet, and seems light years from harder tracks like Zerstören or Laichzeit, but it's no less Rammstein for all that contrast. The lyrics are particularly pleasant for any real Rammstein fan, as they imply an affection and intimacy that quite honestly can't exist between strangers, as the authors and listeners are. Nonetheless they're like a pat on the back for anyone who loves the music. I wonder if this song is a thank you from the band to every Rammstein fan out there.
I'm not sure which song to tackle next. I've been flicking around the tracks thinking about this, but nothing has jumped out at me. Ein Lied has been on my mind from the start, and I just felt it was a good time today, but for the most part my choices have been fairly spur-of-the-moment. I'll just go with whim, I think.
As an aside, I've gone back to all the current LILT versions and added links to the source lyrics and a YouTube video for each one. I have no idea if everyone who hits this site is a Rammstein fan or not, so I might as well provide context, in case a stranger to Rammstein stumbles upon LILT.
[discuss]
Odds are I will look my '1.0' songs over at some point, and something will slide into place and I'll have to keep working. Since I'm not on any kind of production schedule I can keep working on these pieces indefinitely, which is something Till doesn't get to do. Once it's recorded it's pinned into the case, like a dead insect, and he can't go back and make changes.
I do feel a drive to get them perfect, but I'm not sure I'm capable of perfection at this point, so I'm not rushing to remove the versioning quite yet. The numbers can be viewed as training wheels. I won't be rid of them until I've peaked.
Ein Lied is a bit special in any case. It's a song that pushes all kinds of buttons for me, at the moment. It's very sweet, and seems light years from harder tracks like Zerstören or Laichzeit, but it's no less Rammstein for all that contrast. The lyrics are particularly pleasant for any real Rammstein fan, as they imply an affection and intimacy that quite honestly can't exist between strangers, as the authors and listeners are. Nonetheless they're like a pat on the back for anyone who loves the music. I wonder if this song is a thank you from the band to every Rammstein fan out there.
I'm not sure which song to tackle next. I've been flicking around the tracks thinking about this, but nothing has jumped out at me. Ein Lied has been on my mind from the start, and I just felt it was a good time today, but for the most part my choices have been fairly spur-of-the-moment. I'll just go with whim, I think.
As an aside, I've gone back to all the current LILT versions and added links to the source lyrics and a YouTube video for each one. I have no idea if everyone who hits this site is a Rammstein fan or not, so I might as well provide context, in case a stranger to Rammstein stumbles upon LILT.
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