Rammstein Deutschland lyrics with English translation

As some have noted, you could replace “Deutschland” with the name of nearly any country in the world. It could be replaced by “humanity”. The ugliest truth becomes beautiful by being true.

People like @Trial are the reason that Rammstein disables comments on their YT videos.

The song entirely excludes commentary on modern day Germany. It is solely about atrocities of the past.

His interpretation is an asinine attempt from a foreigner to downplay these atrocities and blame modern-day “liberals” for it.

His P.S. is standard incel ideology to boot.

I’m with @Freja and @James. “Man kann dich lieben” means “One can love you” making the whole phrase
“Man kann dich lieben und will dich hassen” mean “One can love you and want to hate you”. Showing the contradiction in the author’s feelings about his homeland, Deutschland.

distributive = destructive

I think the song is about Germany and more about the people who are running it right now.
I see the lyrical hero as a patriot, who loves his country

“Germany
My heart in flames
want to love you want to damn you
Germany”

doesn’t want to leave but stay, still he is torn btw. his love and its cold breath – a metaphor for Germany’s policies right

now:

“Germany
My heart in flames
want to love you want to damn you
Germany”

Cold is its breath, because he means what his land has become under the rule of the left policies and globalism. Germany right now is on the way USA was, before Trump. You know like reverse discrimination and those set of policies against the majority in form of double standards in the application of rules for example.
This is the “curse” he speaks of in:

“Germany
Your love is a curse and a blessing
Germany”

About “blessing” he speaks, because as a German he knows of all the virtues normal civic Germans share, all that history,

tradition and positive side of being a German, but also all the burdens from the dark ages like in WWII or before:

Superior
Needles
Beyond-Man*
Sick of
The higher you climb, the farther you fall
Germany Germany over everyone

Today, Germany’s politicians behave like that time and this is the way he describes it together with the

destiny of anyone who goes in using the Knowledge and Power in such a distributive way:

“Superior
Needles
Beyond-Man*
Sick of
The higher you climb, the farther you fall
Germany Germany over everyone”

…

“so young
and yet so old”

In the last couplet he says he feels that old destructive energy even behind the new liberal mask of humanism.
Because of this:

“Your love is a curse and a blessing
Germany
My love I cannot give to you”

P.S. If one exchanges Germany for a girls name with such an energy, one could understand better what I mean. This kind of toxic girls do exist too – arrogant, but hot, sexy and good-willing, as long as they control your life. 🙂

I’m here to point out some of the cool Easter eggs in the video that I have not mentioned. The scene in the DDR with the band as members of the East German Government, the Walls on the sides look like a Nuclear Reactor. Alluding to the Chernobyl Disaster that many day was the beginning of the collapse of the USSR. In the Execution scene, Germania is wearing an eye patch on her right eye, and as she looks away at the end, it is now on her Left eye. The following scene depicts the band as Left Wing Terrorists (The RAF) that terrorized West Germany in the 1970’s. Now Germany is looking towards the Left, once again highlighting the deep divisions that Germany has faced as a nation, even just in the last 100 years.

In the second time, “Dein Herz in Flammen” is translated to “My heart …”; please fix that.

It’s really deep song and I can clearly understand it there in Russland. We have so much dark pages in our history like GULAGs, holodomor, oprichnina et cetera and it’s really hard to be patriotic nowadays, because our government discredited patriotism and made it synonym to “prokremlin” that is actually an usurped. I want to believe that my country and all other countries will be free from binds that tied their their governments and over-govs like EU and all nations will celebrate freedom, first of all freedom of speech, minds and unions!

I can easily put “Russland” instead of Germany. (Just would slightly change the uniforms and dresses in video sequence). The obvious step ahead in lyrics

To the people who say ‘I’m proud to be British / American / German / French / whatever’ then this song should help you understand that really, your ‘pride’ is down to an accident of birth. Your ‘pride’ is a falsehood – are you proud of your Country’s past? Your ‘pride’ is based on propaganda. Bravo Rammstein for having the balls to write this song and make such a video. Doesn’t matter where you’re from, it’s where you’re gong that really counts.

Brilliant album and even more powerful seeing what the lyrics mean. The music says it all though.
I think they are talking about the Germany of now as much as the Germany of the past. As in the UK there certain things going on shall we say that is dividing people and causing a rise in far right patriotism, nationalism and even extremism.
The song Deutschland is superb, the love for your country but the pain of it’s imperfection sums up love in all ways. As mentioned here every country has its past good and bad. I think they want to get something important across with this album something we can all relate to.

Regarding the term “Geist”, I feel a lot is lot by the translation to “mind”, when really the word also means both Ghost and spirit. Thus, in the original German the wording is far more ambivalent. Implying not only separation in mind [thought?], but also in history and in spirit.

I also agree with “Richie” that “At heart united” is a far more accurate translation. “The heart” would only make sense if it was “Im Herzen”; but it is “Im Herz”.

Correction: In the last chorus, it says “Dein hertz in Flammen” i German, which is translated to “My heart” in English, though it is supposed to say “Your heart”. Other lyrics claim it should be “Mein hertz in Flammen”, but I agree that it sounds far more like it is “Dein” in the last chorus.

Additionally, I think that by not including the backing vocals in the translation a layer of the song is lost. While the backing lyrics essentially compliment the context of the main lyrics, they also tell their own tale:

You have
Cried
Separated
United

We are
You are
So cold
So hot

You can
I know
We are
You stay

You have
You cry
You love
You hate

You (Superior, needless [“superfluous” is what I think is really meant]
I (Over-human, sick of “it” [weary of “it”])
We (What increases in height, has a deeper fall [The German wording is an idiom, known in English as: The higher you climb, the harder you fall])
Your (Germany, Germany over everyone [above all])

Anyway, thought I’d put this out there. It’s amazing how Rammstein can both keep evolving and increasing in quality after so many years..

To all who are saying that they feel bad for past events in their country, just name me one country that has a clean past.

This song greatly addresses the ambivalence that many Germany probably feel about their country’s history. As a Hungarian, I often feel the same about our national history, but because of the many tragedies that occurred, many people feel that we were just the victims of fate, rather than being the perpetrators of some of the events that we faced the consequences of.
Essentially, when it comes to reflecting upon our history, we just take the “Japanese route” – highlighting all the greatness, while ignoring any thing we may have been guilty of, or claiming we were just… Tugged along by fate. You know, the “just following orders” argument.
I do love my country and my people, but at times, I feel like we flat-out REFUSE to learn from our history.

Germania is black in the video so that she represents the colors of the German flag (black, red, and gold). It’s been too long since the video to still not know that…

I wouldn’t use ‘the’ in the translation of
‘Im Geist getrennt
Im Herz vereint’
And would use instead:
‘In mind separated
At heart united’ to reflect the use of the genitive case

As an Israeli Jew, I can tell you that all the people and organizations who criticized Rammstein for this song’s video are totally wrong and simply can’t see the message behind this fantastic piece of art. Using the Nazi symbolism in art is totally ok, if it’s good enough for the Transformers movie which was filmed in London a couple of years ago, it’s good enough for Rammstein’s video.
It’s not easy for today’s Germans to deal with the dark past of their country, and this is what this video is all about – dealing with the past.
Till’s facial expression, when he sings “Deutschland über Allen” dressed up as a Jew in a concentration camp, says it all (3:58).

I always feel a bit sad for today’s Germans. Although I only visited for a couple of weeks and only spoke with a handful of people, I could tell they still feel shame. I tried not to drill our hosts about politics too much, but it would seem they are very afraid to be patriotic. I noticed they do not hang German flags around like we would hang American flags all over in the USA. They are afraid it will breed worse things, and I totally understand. I also see an effort though to thwart all kinds of extremism at its roots. They are forever vigilant, afraid to be complacent, in case things get out of control. We in America also have similar guilts, and I think most developed and mostly-white countries do. We all have a dark past of killing and enslaving in the name of wealth, land, and/or religion. We must do better as people. We do not have to beat ourselves up, but we must not forget either.

[PLEASE PARDON MY LANGUAGE] I was so surprised to see the black actress as the central figure of the music video. Not that there’s anything wrong with using a black actress – it’s just that knowing this is Rammstein, I feel there has to be a meaning for them to cast her. I mean, why not a white actress, or an Asian one – or anyone else at that?
Then I read the lyrics and watched the video again – and I feel that I’ve found my answer: Because SHE IS GERMANY. She represented Germany the way the band (or Till) sees it – a proud nation with a DARK history – one that they love so much but also resent just as much.

What do you guys think? Too much speculation?

In the last stanza, the second line is “dein Herz in Flammen”. would that line translate to “your heart in flames”?
what an amazing song, it hits me right in the heart along with the video.

Something i feel a lot – proud of being English but not proud of some things England did in the past or currently – and certainly not pride to the point i feel better than others because of where i was born. I think the song is pretty clear for a Rammstein song. And actually quite positive for the future (with warnings from the past to be heeded)

Would it be possible to also add Richard’s backing vocals, in paranthesis)?

Rammstein — Deutschland sense of the clip

In the clip the history of Germany from the most ancient times to our time and even the future is displayed. Germany was torn apart at all times by contradictions (and at the beginning of the first millennium, both in the Middle Ages and during Modern times, and at the time of the German Empire, the Third Reich, the GDR and Germany. The history of Germany is a history of gloomy crimes and big technological achievements. The main sense of the clip Rammstein — Deutschland — caution to modern Germans, privates and belonging to elite that something is wrong in Germany. The way elected by Frau Merkel according to participants of group conducts not there, it is possible even to death of Germany.

Actually such attempt to go against “policy of the party” also caused negative tons. \” Humiliated and the oskorbleena \” try to find in the clip the insults of the victims of the Holocaust, justification of Nazis which are absent there or modern intolerance to migrants.

It is not surprising that so huge and talented work caused a storm of emotions. And it means that the German phoenix is capable to rise from the ashes.

Also Europe will shudder.

Totally blown away by the song and the video. Loved it!

I like how Germania, as a Nazi, has the patch over her right eye in the video. “Auf dem rechten Auge blind sein”. So many Easter Eggs in this video!

The song is good (wildly misunderstood as usual), but the video is kick ass!! I think people who don’t know any better just hear German and see Nazi imagery and just assume that the message is Neo-Nazi in nature, when in actually is not at all.

Hi, first time poster on here. In Coventry and Liverpool they say ‘yous’ which kind of correlates with Ihr? I actually don’t speak any German which I haven’t picked up from Rammstein, hence looking on this site for the lyrics. Here is my two penneth-worth on the meaning of this song. I think they are singing about a deep feeling of being German and connected to Germany’s past, stretching back 1000s of years. This is a double-edged sword, as Germany has been an asset to the planet at times, and even very recently been a source of shame to humanity. Therefore, Germans cannot be overtly patriotic because of the associations of patriotism with Nazism. To sum up, the Nazis, the Germanian barbarians, the Stasi, the Teutonic Knights, and the Holocaust victims, were all Germans and part of this collective past. I think England needs a song like this. I feel deeply connected to the soil of England and almost feel my roots here going back 1000s of years (backed up by a recent Ancestry.com DNA test). England has clearly contributed greatly to world civilisation, but it has also been responsible for great injustice and atrocities, even fairly recently. A video for England Uber Allen could start with Angles and Saxons replacing the Celts in England, with Shakespeare and William Wilberforce juxtaposed with Empire and Bloody Sunday, for instance. England has a further edge of conflicted identity, with the image of the bowler hatted and stiff upper-lipped banker contrasting with Sid Vicious and football hooligans. So, gone on a bit but feel better for writing down my thoughts somewhere.

I wonder what the song really means hmmmm….

@Cris Thomas, Mein = My

Germany – my love
I can’t give you
Germany!”
=Rammstein, basically german-guilt for nazi-past.
-Germany, I cannot love you and I condemn you-
As if Africans were somehow more noble than Europeans.
Put into perspective the Germans have not behaved any worse than any other human group. Atrocities, genocide, conquest, brutality and barbarity in all of its forms. Tribal mass-murder in Africa, the religious wars in Europe between Catholics and Protestants where the populations of whole towns including babies had their throats cut, the dreadful deeds of the Islamists in the present day, The extermination of native Americans, the genocides carried out by the Turks, the ancient Romans way of subduing nations with ruthless slaughter. Ever since the dawn of human history and the beginning of wars human beings have done horrific things to each other and slaughtered each other in vast numbers. Human beings everywhere on the planet have done it and it will continue to happen.

thanx! greets to yall.

Beautiful song, lovely translation.
Two tiny things that might help: Überdrüssig as ‘sick of’ ends with a preposition’. In this context I would translate as ‘weary’ or even ‘wearied’. The translation of überflüssig is probably just a typo, but it should be needless (not needles) or possibly pointless.

I would propose an asterisk next to the translation for “Ihr” to explain the fact that it is specifically “You (plural)” which we don’t really have an equivalent in proper English. The closest I know of is “y’all.”

Überdrüssig should mean “weary” or “sick” since it’s an adjective like the above examples and the use of “sick of ” would imply it’s continued to the next line , which is not . also there is a typo with needless 2 lines above .

Not a bad translation, but could use some work to sound more natural.
Also, man kann dich lieben = one can love you

Überflüssig = Superflous

In response to the maker of the translations notes, the concept of the Übermensch was actually a concept conceived by Nietzsche. It was a concept that meant that a man better than others (an Übermensch) justified the existence of all other humans. This links back to the line “Deutschland, Deutschland über allen”. They are both not putting down anyone else, they are simply stating their supposed superiority (i suspect a bit of sarcasm in the lyrics). But the concept was corrupted by Hitler as a way to justify the extermination of non-Aryans. LOS RAMMSTEIN, WIR SIND ZURUCK

Ubs last refrain again Dein Herz in Flammen = Mein herz in flammen

Man kann dich lieben would be one can love you no?

Masterpiece.

@Cris Thomas: Thank you, corrected

On the last Refrain

Mein Atem kalt does it means My breath is cold instead of Your breath is cold?