Rammstein Ich Tu Dir Weh lyrics with English translation

If the band was Italian there would be women’s rights screams everywhere.

Rammstein Das tut dir gut.

I came across this because my nephew mentioned that his clique is into German metal, these days.

I don’t like most heavy metal “music”; all the loud noise, screaming and pounding, and intentional, over-the-top dissonance is usually a bit much for me. But I actually kinda like the music in this song. There is a fairly catchy melody and harmony, the screeching that is there isn’t the centerpiece, and the beat doesn’t scrape chalk at hummingbird speeds.

The imagery, while it certainly has the usual demonic/necrophilic overtones, that has always been, is, and no doubt always will be all the rage among teenagers, does have a certain sort of other-worldly, electric zaniness that I can appreciate, some.

I don’t think I find the lyrics to be particularly inspiring, though. It seems to me that most bands that try to appeal to teenagers sort of pound their chest, shake their fists and yell about something. Often they’ll present themselves (the band members) in a way that makes them appear really powerful, dangerous, unpredictable, and completely free from any restraints on their behavior. It’s a thing designed try to garner a sort of primal sex appeal, and to appeal to teenagers who feel attacked and constrained by peers, parents, teachers, society’s norms, et etc. They often would seem to conjure things demonic, things dead, dying, in some state of extreme decay, and/or to extreme sexual perversion.

The lyrics certainly are poetic, I suppose, and are worthy of some credit for being so, but they’re almost formulaic (in the sense of being cliche in the extreme), to me, in their general thrust. The “dentist” interpretation is amusing, but it doesn’t really jive; a dentist doesn’t “bite”, “kick”, employ “hard blows”, or “insert rodents”.

There could be said to be some potentially plausible interpretation that doesn’t involve the band leader essentially taking the role of the master in a sort of demonic, S&M nightmare; they could be playing the role of someone the song is describing that they hate. It could be their mom or older sister loudly remonstrating with them (bites, kicks and hard blows), trying to press into their mind some anethmatic ideas (“insert rodents”) that there are good reasons for some of the rules that they have a strong desire to defenestrate.

Or they could be playing the role of a school bully. But if they are playing the role of a bully, then it’s not really clear whether they’re intending to cast the bully in a hateful light, or glorify the bully. Maybe both. If it’s both, then it could be a form of a sort of observer art – they’re experiencing life and describing some part of that experience. Cave man cavern carvings.

Or maybe they’re depicting their own critics and detractors. Protractors could say that by criticizing them I’m providing a perfect example of what they’re talking about. That is a common teen idiom, too – mimic, in a hateful way, those you hate, and then when they object, laugh at them for “demonstrating the point.” But if your critic is making valid points, they’re not really deserving of that kind of treatment.

Anyway, taken together with the imagery in the video.. it’s hard to put much stock in any interpretation that doesn’t essentially involve the singer playing the role of the master in a demonic S&M nightmare. The impact that a set of lyrics has comes from it’s most obvious, most glaring interpretation, regardless of any more subtle interpretations which might be intended. It is done with remarkable artistry, I’ll admit; but a sickening, demonic S&M nightmare is still a sickening, demonic S&M nightmare, artful or not. An amazing and spectacular image of a smelly manure pile with flies and maggots is still an image of a smelly manure pile with flies and maggots. At some time in the past it might have been amusing to find such a piece hung on a bathroom wall, perhaps, but with today’s incredible cinematic tools, the act of glamorizing the very unglamorous has so pervaded the scenery and become so cliche that it is doing nothing more than dragging the common cultural climate downward.

It’s possible that I’m wrong, that the imagery is just them “being themselves”, and they are actually trying to say something worth saying, but in the absence of any credible enlightenment about what in the world that worthwhile message is, my feeling about these kinds of lyrics in general is that it’s freaking high time to clean off the crap, and aspire to better things.

For me you’re alive

I’ll put you in the face Medal

You are totally devoted to me

You do not love me as I love you

You bleed for my salvation

A small cut and you’re horny

The body – already totally distorted

No matter it is my book.

I have hurt you.

I know i’m sorry!

This is too good.

Hear how it is quiet!

With you I have a hard time choosing

Barbed wire in the paper

Put your flesh in salt and pus

First you die but then you live further

Books, tricks, hard blows

Needle, pliers, blunt saw

Wish you something, I do not say no

And insert pages into you

I have hurt you.

I know i’m sorry!

This is too good.

Hear how it is quiet!

I have hurt you.

I know i’m sorry!

It is too good.

Hear how it is quiet!

You are the ship, the captain I

Go where the journey is geh’n?

I see in the mirror your face

You do not love me as I love you

I have hurt you.

I know i’m sorry!

This is too good.

Hear how it is quiet!

I have hurt you.

I know i’m sorry!

This is too good.

Hear how it is quiet!

I have hurt you.

I know i’m sorry!

This is too good.

Hear how it is quiet!

I’ve heard some places say that it’s the soul/life singing to the body of the person

basically that you have to sacrifice some of your physicality for your life or soul

“Erst stirbst du doch dann lebst du weiter” or “First you die but then you live on” could go to “you sacrifice but then you benefit later”

All the sadistic stuff could just be metaphors for the shit you have to face in order to live a good life.

To me it sounds like a man who is love with an S&M woman/man, and doesn’t want to do all this torture to her/him. But will do it to make the person happy.

My
reading is connected to the controversy of rights and wrongs in a man. In my
opinion it must be some kind of inner struggle for enjoy your life without
remorse.

Maybe he straight choose the devil side on purpose, hurting the remorsive side
becouse it’s presence, becouse it doesn’t want to drown, no matter how hard you
try to ignore. It’s still loving you, or sticks to you, even if you hate or
torture it. It couse you troubles and pain on different ways: you suffers from
your actions. It is allowed by you. You find pleasure in it, maybe it feels
good to you (the ’bad’ side), to hear it scream (begging you to stop doing
this).. You feel the pain sooner or later, you die and live on like nothing
have happened before.

The grandest paradox I’ve ever felt. It’s
hellish, by the way.

(Not new to anybody, we all borned with conscience, as I know.)

It is all about choices.

As a reply you can read the expanded version of this speculation. 😀

Now one of my favorite songs EVER! Dooms drums sound SO incredible. I wish mine sounded so good! m/

Rammslein

Holy Fifty Shades, Batman!

Amazing song, and music video! Simply one of their best songs, but I always wonder, what exactly is it about, besides S&M sex or torture, lol, I have a feeling there is a deeper meaning. Anyways, awesome song by an awesome band!

Comparing this text to Jeremy’s (see link above), I’ve noticed one interesting differece: “Egal, erlaubt ist, was gefällt” Jeremy transalates as “anything goes”, while here it’s translated as “whatever PLEASES is allowed”. VAST difference in meaning, yet in my humble opinion both translations are equally valid.
Maybe an actual native speaker (I don’t care if you *studied* German at school, so did I) could tell me which meaning is “correct”, or if the line’s intentionally ambiguous.

for Nathaniel Seeley:

http://herzeleid.com/en/lyrics/liebe_ist_fuer_alle_da/ich_tu_dir_weh

Well you clearly used Google Translate for this because I got the same results when I did. I would like to see it translated by someone who speaks German fluently.

i thimk its a metaphor to the emotional pain you inflict(if that´s an actual word im from argentina)on a person you don´t wanna be whith in order to push her/he away…