Rammstein Ich Tu Dir Weh lyrics with English translation

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Nur für mich bist du am Leben You’re only alive for me
Ich steck dir Orden ins Gesicht I put medals into your face
Du bist mir ganz und gar ergeben You are entirely devoted to me
Du liebst mich denn ich lieb’ dich nicht You love me because I don’t love you
 
Du blutest für mein Seelenheil You bleed for my salvation
Ein kleiner Schnitt und du wirst geil A small cut and you’re horny
Der Körper – schon total entstellt The body – already totally distorted
Egal, erlaubt ist, was gefällt It doesn’t matter, whatever pleases is allowed
 
Ich tu’ dir weh. I hurt you
Tut mir nicht Leid! I’m not sorry
Das tut dir gut. It does you good
Hör wie es schreit! Hear how it screams!
 
Bei dir habe ich die Wahl der Qual With you I have the choice of torment*
Stacheldraht im Harnkanal Barbed wire in the urethral tract
Leg dein Fleisch in Salz und Eiter Put your flesh in salt and pus
Erst stirbst du doch dann lebst du weiter First you die but then you live on
 
Bisse, Tritte, harte Schläge Bites, kicks, hard blows
Nadel, Zangen, stumpfe Säge Needle, pliers, blunt saw
Wünsch’ dir was, ich sag nicht nein What you wish, I don’t say no
Und führ’ dir Nagetiere ein And insert rodents into you
 
Ich tu’ dir weh. I hurt you
Tut mir nicht Leid! I’m not sorry
Das tut dir gut. It does you good
Hör wie es schreit! Hear how it screams
 
Ich tu’ dir weh. I hurt you
Tut mir nicht Leid! I’m not sorry
Es tut dir gut. It does you good
Hör wie es schreit! Hear how it screams
 
Du bist das Schiff, ich der Kapitän You are the ship, I’m the captain
Wohin soll denn die Reise geh’n? Where should this journey go
Ich seh’ im Spiegel dein Gesicht I see your face in the mirror
Du liebst mich denn ich lieb’ dich nicht You love me because I don’t love you
 
Ich tu’ dir weh. I hurt you
Tut mir nicht Leid! I’m not sorry
Das tut dir gut. It does you good
Hört wie es schreit! Hear how it screams
 
Ich tu’ dir weh. I hurt you
Tut mir nicht Leid! I’m not sorry
Das tut dir gut. It does you good
Hör wie es schreit! Hear how it screams
 
Ich tu’ dir weh. I hurt you
Tut mir nicht Leid! I’m not sorry
Das tut dir gut. It does you good
Hör wie’s schreit! Hear how it screams
 
Lyric © Rammstein Translation © Affenknecht.com

Submitted by EinHeisserSchrei

 

Translation Notes:

* Inversion of the German collocation “die Qual der Wahl haben” (the torment of choice, means to be spoilt for choice)

140 COMMENTS

  1. So at first Rammstein 4 Ever.

    Here is a “very Bad German Boy” …. German peoples are all bad…. ahaahah dont joke me. The Holocaust is past and with that has the most people now nothing to do. thy were all blind in past about hope were not hope to find it and what they have done is not to Mercy… but

    its 65 years since the war is end, and the world should look to a better Future and not to our bad Past.We are all so same but in the end so different. make your life happy or it will be run away faster as you can see. (;

    at last.

    Ich hoffe das mein english einiger maßen verständlich ist. xD

    Nice greets from germany. ^^

  2. Well now we are talking!
    It’s because they are from Germany???
    Well i now some facts in history that would make A. Hitler say;
    “Also also!”
    Drugsarebad, the things you say are worse then the lyrics from Rammstein with one difference, you mean everything you write…
    I think you are very dangerous.
    Wish you a nice weekend

  3. ‘German people are vey bad sadists if you know what I mean.Stuff like that.It’s in their blood.’

    That’s called RACISM mr or mrs drugsrbad.

    If youre talking about the Holocaust, the nazis were very evil people, but that’s not to say that EVERY german person is or ever has been a nazi, and it’s very unfair to suggest it. that’s exactly what the nazis did about the jews.

    and you still dont get it, the song isnt LITERALLY about putting barbed wire or rodents into you, it’s METAPHORICAL.

    i dont really understand why you would look up the english lyrics to this song if 1. your first language isn’t english, and 2. you don’t like rammstein or till lindemann :s

  4. yep these things assosiated with pain.but i wouldn’t call this guy normal.I wouldn’t talk to a guy who will put barbered wires in my urethral tract.I think this guy needs medical attention.And by the way,I want to see him in a starit jacket in a mental hospital far away from planet earth.I think with this he wrote poem about holocoust.Cuz he really knows who he is and what kind of pleasure he feels from pain like that.He is not honest german sadist.I think something he trying to hide.Like his very not good german sadism.German people are vey bad sadists if you know what I mean.Stuff like that.It’s in their blood.

  5. Drugsarebad, you clearly fail to understand the point in poetry. If you read some of the great poets’ work like Carol Ann Duffy, there is some very ‘sick’ material in their poems. The idea is to use metaphors, similes, bla bla bla to create an emotion or send a message. It’s not supposed to be LITERALLY about barbed wire in the urethra tract, that could be symbollic for the pain of love, or for a sexual disease, or for a great feeling of pain, or anything. It’s all in the analysis, and you shouldn’t be locked up for writing poetry, it’s the people who carry things out that should

  6. This stuff is about puting song writer in mental hospital in strait jacket .I will be honest.Person who writes lyric like that must be locked up in mental clinic.This guy needs strait jacket and he should be locked up in room for special people with wires and bottle in his urethra.This is not about S&M at all.Agagagagagaga.This guy is sick.He needs to be in jail or mental hospital.This is very awful song.He very dangerous person for society.

  7. skimming through some of your all, s&m seems way off, it is about multalation, about to the point of snuff sex and necaphela(i know i didn’t spell it right, sex with a dead person). reading it, it sounds like a lyrical verson of a snuff film. i’m not trying to piss everyone off, i love the song, real dark and a little to freaky for me. barbed wire in the urethra? oww, never even had a cathiter. and rodent in you? yeah, someone likes it weird. i also listen to death and black metal, and this one is up there

  8. @Lewis: Der….read-Till was abused by his alcoholic father and his mother put up with it for years. For abused people it is therapeutic to talk/sing/get their feelings out. This is why(I think) some of Rammstein’s music is so dark and why a lot of their songs deal with abuse in one form or another.

  9. This song is actually awful. Not only are the lyrics quite sad and slightly disgusting, the “music” itself could have been written by a 3 year old. The band clearly have some unresolved issues with their parents, and their own self esteam.

  10. When I saw this song live .. I cried. It was soooo awesome!! I was like, screaming until my throat got too sore to scream anymore! I repeat: IT WAS AWESOME !!! <3
    R+ forever !

  11. Hi guys,

    a short explanation about the “Nagetiere” – thing!
    In the 60s-70s in England a thing came up in the homosexual scene to buy e.g. rats, mice, etc. in Pet shops.
    They took the animals claws to be sure not to get hurt and then they have been placing them into their own (or their partners) arses ! Never thought about the term “Pet Shop Boys” ! 😉

    Grtz
    Patrick (german)

  12. @Anna:
    As a teacher, I think your English teacher broke one of the most important rules of poetry analysis; that the truth is in the eye of the beholder. I think your analysis is great and funny. For one thing, you back your points with quotations, and it holds. secondly, if this was indeed the intended meaning of the song, it would make the censorship actions taken by the German minisiter of family, even more hillarious and stupid(although the pointers back in german history, with forbidden songs is frightening).
    I wish I had more students who were able to think in different patterns, like you can.
    Raekon.

    • The album was added to the index of the Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien (Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons) in Germany, due to the track “Ich tu dir weh” and a picture inside the album booklet displaying Richard Kruspe spanking a nude woman.[23] This means only adults can purchase the album; additionally, it must not be displayed in stores where minors have access (see BPjM for details).[24] As a consequence, the album was re-released in Germany on 16 November in an edited version without the censored track and picture.[25][26] The band still played the instrumental version song live in Germany until it was ultimately banned from live performances.

      Despite the censorship, the video to “Ich tu dir weh” was released on 21 December 2009, on adult website Visit-X, just like the video to “Pussy”, after advertisement on the band’s official German website. Any references have since been deleted, presumably following German law prohibiting advertisement for media on the index. In Europe, a single was released on 5 February 2010, and in the UK on 15 February 2010.[27]

      As of 31 May 2010, the administrative court in Cologne has decided to waive the suspensive effect of censorship (case 22 L 1899/09). The German department deleted the record from the censorship lists on 1 June (Decision No. A 117/10).[28] On 9 June the band announced on their official website that the original version of the album was already available at their shop and that a release of the single “Ich tu dir weh” in Germany was planned in a short period of time.[29]

  13. I think it’s about a dentist.

    ‘Medals’ could be fillings, the choices of torture ‘the blunt saw’ ‘needles and pliers’ etc are the dentist’s tools. The ‘I see your face in the mirror’ bit, dentists use mirrors to look into your mouth.

    Think about the chorus. ‘I hurt you’ obviously having your teeth drilled hurts; ‘I’m not sorry’ because it’s his job; ‘It does you good’ well obviously it’s better than your teeth rotting and falling out, and ‘Hear it scream’ think about the noise a drill makes-it screams.

    I’m not sure though, I was always told off in English literature. ‘Anna, although I appreciate that you have the ability to read between the lines, perhaps you are looking too deep. Try not to let your imagination take over when annotating these poems in your exam’

    Either way, Rammstein’s music is awesome, and Till’s poetry is both clever and beautiful 🙂

    • Barbed wire in the urethral tract, not sure if a dentist would approve of that though. jk
      nice thought though.

  14. I am confused about ; Ich seh im Spiegel dein Gesicht, mayby he is looking to himself (???), so self-mutilation is possible to?! Has the person multiple personalities?

    ….

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