LILT: Hilf Mir 1.0

This is such a sad song:

I was alone there in the house
Both of my parents had gone out
And then I saw before me there
A little box so fine and fair

I say “Look what is this joy
This looks like it's a great wee toy”
Just one match I have to strike
As when my mother needed light

Every time I am alone
To the fire I am drawn
Why doesn't the sunlight smell
Oh why don't I get well

It grabs at me and I don't fight
Jumps to my face with delight
It bites and hurts me a great deal
About the room I run and squeal

Oh dear, the fire licks my clothes
My jacket burns so hot it glows
My hand is burnt, and so's my hair
Now I am burning everywhere

Every time I am alone
To the fire I am drawn
Why doesn't the sunlight smell
Oh why don't I get well
The fire loves me
Help me
The fire loves me not
The fire loves me

I have burned entirely
There's nothing at all left of me
All alone from the embers
To sunshine I now emerge
The fire loves me
The fire loves me not

Help me

I know there are gaping holes in this one, and some of it's very awkward, but I will keep working on it.

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LILT: Rammlied 1.3

We honour those who keep the faith
Those who will hold strong and can wait
Well, your wait is now at an end
Please lend your ears now to the legend

Ramm! Stein!

Many lead, more come in tow
With heart and soul, hand in hand
Onward, forward, be on the go
Sense and form you understand
If your joy leads to heartache
If no stars shine from the dark
If you're lonely and alone
We have returned, so turn on...

Ramm! Stein!

Many lead, more come in tow
So put your very best face on
Devouring and being devoured
We take a gram and give a tonne
If you do not know the drill
What is right is what's right still
If you're lonely and alone
We have returned, so turn on...

Ramm! Stein!

One way
One zeal
One intent
Ramm! Stein!
One direction
One heart
Of flesh and blood
Community

We honour those who keep the faith
Those who will hold strong and can wait
Well, your wait is now at an end
Please lend your ears now to the legend

Ramm! Stein!

Because I'm pitiful and weak and didn't stick with my goal to LILT 40 songs before starting on LIFAD I'm just moving the goal posts. Rammlied is my 40th LILT, which works for me. Less said the better, really.

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LILT: Mein Herz Brennt 1.3

I'm tempted to promote this, but have hung fire for now:

Come darling children, attend me
From 'neath your pillows my voice arrests
I've brought you all a special treat
I extracted it from my own chest

With this heart I have the power
Where your wee eyelids are concerned
I sing until the night's last hour
And glowing light on high returns
My heart burns

They come after you after dark
The blackest fay and ghosts and demons
They creep out from the cellar shaft
And look under bedding where you're hidden

Come darling children, attend me
From 'neath your pillow my voice bestirs
I've brought you all a special treat
The glowing light on high returns
My heart burns
My heart burns

They come after you after dark
And steal your heated little tears of pain
They wait until the moon awakes
And put them into my twisted and cold veins

Come darling children, attend me
From 'neath your pillow my voice recurs
I sing until the day relieves
The glowing light on high returns
My heart burns
My heart burns
My heart burns
My heart burns

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LILT: Spiel Mit Mir 3.0

Promoted without change:

We share a bedroom and a bed
Brother dear, be compassionate
Brother dear, come touch me here
Move in close so we are near

A black hole before the bed
Swallows whole every sheep
I'm past that age but count them yet
Because I still can't sleep

Beneath foliage in the night
Waiting there is a white dream
Brother dear, come hold on tight
And shake the leaves off it for me

Play a game
With me
Give me your warm hand and
Play with me
A game
Play with me
A game
Play with me
While we are alone here
Play with me
A game
Why don't we play house

Dear brother's hand is aching
He turns back t'ward the wall then
He helps me out when I've wakened
So that I can sleep again

Play a game
With me
Give me your warm hand and
Play with me
A game
Play with me
A game
Play with me
While we are alone here
Play with me
A game
Why don't we play house

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LILT: Spring 1.3

Getting there:

Atop a tall bridge way up high
A man stands up feeling small
He stands there with his arms held wide
A mob forms below his pedestal
And I don't want to miss out here
I want to get in really near
I move myself close to the scene
And scream

He is now ready to climb back down
The rabble show a new-found hatred
They compress into a tight crowd
It won't allow him to escape it
So he finds that he must return
And the mob then begins to stir
They're wanting him to vent his spleen
And they scream

Fly
Fly
Fly

Fly
So I'm alright
Fly
Don't spoil my night
Fly from spite
Fly to the light
Fly

Now the man begins to weep
A cloud moves silently in
He perceives what he has reaped
Before the sun and it dims
I just want to be at the scene
The people start to surge and teem
And to look up into the evening
And they're screaming

Fly
Fly

They're screaming
Fly

Fly
So I'm alright
Fly
Don't spoil my night
Fly from spite
Fly to the light
Fly

A cloud moves silently in
Before the sun and it dims
A thousand suns're burning just for him
Up there behind him I draw near
From there I kick him in the rear
I am his redemption
Yeah, I scream at him

Fly
Fly
Fly

Fly
So I'm alright
Fly
Don't spoil my night
Fly
Fly from spite
Don't spoil my night

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Stunt Cocks

Metal Hammer has comment from RZK regarding the Pussy video. There's a small excerpt I have to include here:

Stunt cocks or your own?
Kruspe: “No comment.”

Don't worry, darling. We've all seen the video. We know.

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Rammlied

The Gauntlet has this track streaming on their site here. I guess you can expect a lot of revision of my LILT for it now, since I can actually work on the cadence properly.

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LILT: Rammlied 1.2

We honour those who keep the faith
Those who will hold strong and can wait
Well, your wait is come to an end
Please lend your ears now to the legend

Ramm! Stein!

Many lead, more come in tow
Heart, soul, and mind, hand in hand
Onward, forward, be on the go
Sense and form you understand
If joy leads to heartache
If no stars shine from the dark
If you're lonely and alone
We have returned, so turn on...

Ramm! Stein!

Many lead, more come in tow
So put a really good face on
Devouring and being devoured
We take a gram and give a tonne
If you do not know the drill
What is right is what's right still
If you're lonely and alone
We have returned, so turn on...

Ramm! Stein!

One way
One zeal
One intent
Ramm! Stein!
One direction
One feeling
Of flesh and blood
Community

We honour those who keep the faith
Those who will hold strong and can wait
Well, your wait is come to an end
Please lend your ears now to the legend

Ramm! Stein!

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LILT: Rammlied 1.1

We honour those who keep the faith
Who will hold strong and who can wait
Well, your wait is come to an end
Please lend your ears now to the legend

Ramm! Stein!

Many lead, more come in tow
Both heart and mind, hand in hand
Onward, forward, be on the go
Sense and form you understand
If joy leads to heartache
No stars shine out of the dark
If you're lonely and alone
We have returned, so turn on...

Ramm! Stein!

Many lead, more come in tow
So put a really good face on
Devouring and being devoured
We take a gram and give a tonne
If you do not know the drill
What is right is what's right still
If you're lonely and alone
We have returned, so turn on...

Ramm! Stein!

One way
One zeal
One intent
Ramm! Stein!
One direction
One feeling
Of flesh and blood
Community

We honour those who keep the faith
Who will hold strong and who can wait
Well, your wait is come to an end
Please lend your ears now to the legend

Ramm! Stein!

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Industrial Machine

Head.

Hmm, yeah, this one is out of the blue. TG has verified that Machine Head have done a remix for LIFAD, which will be available only via iTunes. It sounds like it's only going to go out to US store users too. Wow!

So, Machine Head remixing Rammstein is new. What else are they going to surprise us with?

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Premature Adaptation

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear. Tsk! Yep, I'm hopeless:

We honour those who keep the faith
Who will hold strong and who can wait
Well, your wait is come to an end
Please lend your ears now to the legend

Ramm! Stein!

Many lead, more come in tow
Both heart and mind, hand in hand
Onward, forward, be on the go
Sense and form you understand
If peace leads to heartache
No stars shine out of the dark

If you're lonely and alone
We have returned, so turn on...

Ramm! Stein!

Many lead, more come in tow
So put a really good face on

Devouring and being devoured
We take a gram to get a tonne

If you do not know the drill
What is right is what's right still
If you're lonely and alone
We have returned, so turn on...

Ramm! Stein!

One way
One zeal
One intent
Ramm! Stein!
One direction
One feeling
Of flesh and blood
Community

We honour those who keep the faith
Who will hold strong and who can wait
Well, your wait is come to an end
Please lend your ears now to the legend

For those of you new to LILT this is NOT a direct translation. It's an adaptation, so I have taken liberties. If you want a word-for-word translation of Rammleid go somewhere else.

Speaking of which, thanks to Affenknecht.Com for their somewhat green, but otherwise very useful translation. I augmented it with Google Language Tools. Thanks also to Herzeleid user, alexsonso, for clarifying the meaning of 'Böse Miene, gutes Spiel' so well.

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Wouldn't it be Nice...

Faster Louder have posted an article citing Olli as saying that they'd love to do BDO again in 2010. I'm not sure how good those chances are, but damn, that'd be nice.

For those of you not in Australasia, BDO is The Big Day Out. It's a summer Festival that tours Australia and comes to New Zealand for one stop, and it's really the only chance I'll probably ever have to see Rammstein live. Unfortunately, just at the moment this isn't seeming a likely scenario, but it's good that it's even been suggested by Rammstein.

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WTF is Dante?

Just below the search box on the official Rammstein blog (ENG) is a link to Dante's blog. I'd like to know who this person is and why their (completely content-free) blog is linked to from Rammstein's site.

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New Tubes

The official Rammstein YouTube channel has two new videos that appear to have been filmed in the US (named Sonoma). They're not as dark and moody as the Beesenstedt clips, but they're just as arty-farty.

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Dear ****

I wrote an email to my mother about LIFAD today, but didn't send it. I've decided to just play the album to her when it comes out, and let her settle her own ideas based on the music. I did that with their earlier work, and she liked some of it a lot, despite understanding German, but I don't want to colour her perceptions of what's to come.

I thought I'd post it here though, as it's Rammstein, and it's me, and that's what this site is about, to a large degree:

Rammstein are releasing their sixth album in October. As usual they're approaching the world from below, giving us a fairly good view of its underbelly. Sex tourism, Fritzl, sex, Rammstein, sex, S&M, sex, etc. are amongst the subjects tackled. There should be plenty of shits and giggles, as ever.

The first single is here, with a pornographic video featuring all six band members with their heads composited onto porn actors' bodies banging a range of hot women silly, accompanied with images of a leather-clad musical performance, German flags, and a cat. The single is called 'Pussy', and it really, really nails down the subject matter...amongst other things.

Pussy is probably the track purported to be about sex tourism, since it mentions such things as driving abroad because 'I can't get laid in Germany', and German clichés like bratwurst and sauerkraut. It's crass, crude, explicit, and executed with tongue firmly planted in cheek, and it's catchy in a very poppy fashion. Definitely a primary source of the previously promised 'giggles'.

The B-side is a Rammstein anthem, in the same style as (funnily enough) 'Rammstein', and will be the album opener. Apparently 'epic' is the best description for it. It's called (obscurely) Rammlied.

Other tracks have explicit (and implicit) themes varying from Sharks (sex), through spring in Paris (possibly sex but probably love), and Fritzl (bad sex), the traditional huntsman's greeting (sex), and inflicting pain (during sex, I suspect), to B********, which is a word fabricated by the band to mean anything they like (probably sex). This is par for the course, but from the previews I've read it appears that this album is not more of the same, musically speaking. It sounds like they continue to evolve, despite Lindemann's propensity for sexual verbage.

The album is going to be called 'liebe ist für alle da' (LIFAD for short...and possibly for the Teutonically challenged), and has begun its life surrounded by controversy. This is appropriate. This is Rammstein!

The first shit-fight was over a leaked track (the title track), which trickled, then streamed, and then gushed through the fan scene while we were in Greece. Lots of drama, lots of legal action, and a PR nightmare later unreleased images then came to light and a fan community got hammered with yet more legal action. Soon after the promotional clips for the Pussy single came out, and broke the more fragile-minded amongst us. Then the actual single and video followed this week, and the faecal matter really became ballistic. This is the aforementioned 'shits'.

It's funny how people can handle violence of the 'Terminator' and 'Aliens' variety without turning a hair, but show them some good, healthy, rubbing of the uglies and they blush like nuns and make outraged noises.

I don't think anything else on the album is going to cause anything like the upsets we've already had though, so it's probably going to be fairly gentle from here on in, but anticipation is high, and I'm really looking forward to the album.

If you're wondering about the title of this post I refer to my mother by her name, rather than a maternal epithet, but don't choose to tell you what that is.

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LIFAD on Track

The official Rammstein site now has a complete track listing for the LIFAD album, including the tracks on the bonus disk that comes with the Deluxe edition.

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New Album Preview

Rock Social have posted a new preview, and it's probably the most considered one I've read yet. This could well mean it's the most honest. I'm not sure, but I find it very encouraging.

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What Pussy Does For Me

I was thinking the video might be on-topic (sex tourism), but it just seemed to be a big poke in the ribs, a woopie cushion on the chair, and a squirty rubber buttonhole as the kicker. Don't get me wrong. I don't feel strongly about them, but I did like both the video and the song. I do have to append 'not as much as I'd hoped I would' though, because I guess I set the bar too high for this particular track. I feel much less than I think I should, given that this is the first Rammstein track out in a long time. I figured there'd be something sparking in me. I expected the song to inspire passion of some kind, if not the video, but I feel a mild amusement, and a quiet enjoyment. Where are the fireworks?

I smiled throughout though. It's very tongue-in-cheek, very wry, and rather cheesy, and they've pretty much now laid the smack down on those lame hip-hop/R'n'B videos, with all the hot chicks rubbing bare bits against fully clothed men, implying a lot, but not delivering. How d'you like them apples, bitches?

I'm just glad that every sign points to this track being unique on this album, because I really don't want my feelings about LIFAD to be tepid, flaccid, or gentle. I want it to burn me up.

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The Gauntlet Gets it UP

The Gauntlet has Pussy too. Go TG!

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Ladies

Don your crotchless knickers and peekaboo bras. It's almost Pussy-time!

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