Alexander Veljanov - Nie Mehr

If you like Deine Lakaien, you'll like this song. This is the vocalist from the band's solo project, and even though he's not German, he sings in German sometimes on his solo CDs - even though he doesn't for Deine Lakaien's CDs despite the fact that the other guy in that band is German... oh well. But this counts as German music because he's singing in German and is also in a German band and I think he recorded this in Germany and... yeah. Well, I love this song musically, and I love the lyrics (I can definitely connect to them). And I like how emotional the acting in the video is, even though the video's very simple... Yeah, I should stop obsessing. :)




Lyrics Translation:

Will you return
waiting was all vain
I was down
almost out of my mind, breathless
eyelids heavy
dull the gloss of tired eyes
repeatedly
secondhand pictures

Already let myself down
There I layed on the ground
mockery in return
laughed at
in your name

I lay awake
night after night
counted the hours
passing by without sense
no feeling
I loved pale lies
from the land of mediocrity
I wanted you

And you aren't here
don't want to yearn anymore
just throw it all away

Don't return
Stay where the sun
shines for you forever
All gold in the world
Felicity
this is what I wish you
what I wish you
But please stay away from me
Heaven only knows
only knows
what's hidden in you
But please stay away from me
please stay away from me
and cross it out
my name
cross it out forever
cross it out, please
please cross it out

And you aren't here
won't yearn anymore
Throw it all away
Over and done
Won't beg anymore
Go with God, but go!

Eternity
Mediocrity
spoiled brilliance
over and done

Don't return
please don't return
over and done
Night after night
Over and done
Night after night
Won't beg anymore
Throw it all away
And you aren't here
Won't yearn anymore
Go with God, but go!

Won't beg anymore
Throw it all away
Over and done
Won't beg anymore
Go with God, but go!

Translation from: http://durloth.deviantart.com/journal/22541159/

Recommendations: Deine Lakaien, Diorama, Diary of Dreams, Helium Vola, Goethes Erben, ASP

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Ich + Ich - So soll es bleiben

Another song in German! :) Sorry, I've been busy/lazy this week, so I haven't been uploading enough. Well, here's a song by a band that I had never heard until today, but it seems like a good song, even if it's not my usual type.




Lyrics translation:

I've been waiting so long
for that one moment.
I'm searching
for 100%.
When will it finally be right,
when will there be meaning?
I won't know the answer
until I get there.

I want to say:

So it should be,
so it can stay.
So have I wished it.
Everything matches perfectly
because everything is finally right
and my heart is captured.

I will celebrate when it is here.
I know there's more to it than that.
So much is still ahead of me.
I still run after it.
Until now I've only felt half
of all that's there.
I need to keep searching
because something is still missing.

I want to say:

So it should be,
so it can stay.
So have I wished it.
Everything matches perfectly
because everything is finally right
and my heart is captured.

I don't know where you are
ore where you live.
But one thing is sure,
it's worth the trouble.
I pray every night that I will find you.

And you say:

So it should be,
so it can stay.
So have I wished it.
Everything matches perfectly
because everything is finally right.

So it should be,
so it can stay.
It's good exactly as it is.
Everything matches perfectly
because everything in me is finally at rest.

Translation by me

Recommendations: Rosenstolz, Christina Stürmer, Pur, Juli

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L'Âme Immortelle - Nur Du

I posted the last post as an exception, planning to restrict the blog to songs in German. After the positive feedback, though, I think I will post more songs by German bands that are sung in English. This will open up possibilities for more bands' songs to be featured here, since many bands choose to sing in English in an attempt to make their music more popular in other countries. You'll be able to find the songs in English easily by clicking on the "English" tag in the side bar. This post, however, is a German song, not an English one, although the band occasionally sings in English as well.

Don't be confused by their name; L'Âme Immortelle is an Austrian, not French band. For those of you who don't speak French, their name means "The Immortal Soul." Most of the band's songs are tragic love stories. I had a difficult time choosing which of their videos to post. I think that "5 Jahre," "Dein Herz," "Fallen Angel," and "Stumme Schreie" are their best songs, and they have good videos too, but "Nur Du" has one of the cutest music videos that I've ever seen. It's not at all like their usual visual style (or really even their musical style), but I like it and its story a lot. Enjoy!





Lyrics Translations:

You have reignited
A fire in my heart
You have turned the night in me
To day

You have also brought radiance
Back into my eyes
And with your warmth
Have finally brought me home

I have never since seen anything
As beautiful as you
I have never since felt anything
As good as you

You were always my sunshine
In dark hours
You were strong when I couldn't be
Full of confidence

Your unfaltering character
Helped me understand myself
But you remained hidden to me
I couldn't see you

I have never since seen anything
As beautiful as you
I have never since felt anything
As good as you

I have never since seen anything
As beautiful as you
I have never since felt anything
As good as you

You locked yourself up in yourself
To get away from all your sorrows
All your suffering and your pain
Remained hidden from me

I still couldn't climb over
The walls of your soul
I couldn't find any keys
To the gates that I found

I have never since seen anything
As beautiful as you
I have never since felt anything
As good as you

I have never since seen anything
As beautiful as you
I have never since felt anything
As good as you

I have never before lost anything
As valuable as you
I will never be able to love again
For my only love is you

I have never since seen anything
As beautiful as you
I have never since felt anything
As good as you

Translation by me

Recommendations: Mantus, Persephone, Unheilig, Oomph!

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Wir Sind Helden - Nur Ein Wort

Back to more upbeat, popish music. Well, okay, technically they're alternative rock, but they're very popular in Germany. The great thing about this music video if you're learning German is that they have a large percentage of the lyrics in the video, which makes it really easy to follow along.





Lyrics Translation:

I see that you think
I think that you feel
I feel that you want
But I don’t hear you, I

Have borrowed a dictionnary
Have shouted A to Z into your ear
I’m piling up a thousand cloudy words
That tug at your sleeve

And where you want to go
I’m clinging to your legs

[direct translation: “If you have to be fallen on your mouth why not on mine”, doesn’t make sense in English but I really can’t translate it because it is a proverb and it also isn’t logical in German! Figuratively it means s.th. like: If you never talk why not talk to me or maybe even kiss me.]

Oh please give me just an Oh
Please give me just an Oh
Please give me just an Oh
Please give me just a
Please give me just one word

It is crazy how you remain silent
How you bend your handsome head
And in doing so give the whole loud world and me
The cold shoulder

Your silence is your tent
You put it in the middle of the world
Tighten the laces and marvel
Dumb when
A girl stumbles over them at night

At your feet I’m talking
myself into trouble
I want to produce big waves
In your deep water

[proverb: “Stille Wasser sind tief” = Still water runs deep, means that silent/inconspicous people have a lot to say/offer more than you’d thought, so if she wants to produce waves in his waters it means they’re not silent any more so he will either talk or it turns out that he really has got nothing to say]

Oh please give me just an Oh

In my blood the endorphines
Are forming bubbles
When behind your silent
Eyes of a hare the thoughts are racing

Translation slightly modified from: http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2005/07/wir_sind_helden_in_english#5901

Recommendations: Juli, Silbermond, MIA.

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