Lyrics for Ich Will (english) as interpreted by John M

Ich Will (english) Lyrics
I want

I want you to have faith in me
I want you to believe in me
I want to feel your eyes
I want to control every heartbeat

I want to hear your voice
I want to break the silence
I want you to see me well
I want you to understand me

I want your fantasy
I want your energy
I want to see your hands
I want to go down in applause

Do you see me?
Do you understand me?
Do you feel me?
Do you hear me?

Can you hear me?
Can you see me?
Can you feel me?
I don't understand you!

I want

We want you to have faith in us
We want you to believe in us
We want to see your hands
We want to go down in applause - ja

Can you hear me?
Can you see me?
Can you feel me?
I don't understand you!

Can you hear us?
Can you see us?
Can you feel us?
We don't understand you!

I want...

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supafly
07-20-2002

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oh, and a personel comment to ozzyrollerbauhn863: maybe you should analise your language, english that is. you find that it is shalow and meaningles. at least we put feelings to wat we say.

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Phantom2040
08-21-2002

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Rammstein is an awesome band, im english, and know spanish and french. I've been listening to Rammstein for quite some time now, and have started learning german. And it doesn't matter if you don't understand the lyrics. If you feel the beat and the tone u can understand the theme. And to all of the other Americans who are knocking Rammstein because they don't sing in english... get over it, not every band in the world needs to speak english. Rammstein rocks!!!

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Rayn
09-12-2002

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You just don't understand the germanspeaking bands.. I am German and I'm learning english since 4 years in school but I still have problems sometimes to understand an english song by whole when I'm hearing it the first time that sucks and thats why I wanna go in an englishspeaking country one year!
And to Kookkie: How many americans do you know that you can judge them? By the way I think its sometimes hard enough for them to understand our bad english!
nice greetings to all rammstein fans: Rayn

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Xevrathrusra
09-23-2002

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Meh, I'm American, don't know hardly any German, my French is sad, my Spanish laughable, and Rammstien is very, very good.

B/W, German is very harsh and almost violent, which makes it utterly sexy and PERFECT for rock.

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THr33_EL3v3n
03-06-2003

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Ich Will, one of the many great Rammstein songs. After hearing all of their cd's, I've come oto the conclusion that there is no bad Rammstein song out there, all of them kick major fucking ass, and I never get tired of them. I can listen to them over and over again. Keep rocking and kicking ass.

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Jester89
03-10-2003

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Wierd song. Cool video. ;)

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alienraven
03-31-2003

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great song better video im english and ill have to admit im not linguistical and it is tragic how we english speakers seam to expect the world to learn our language
i do know some french (which is the mane second language over here) but im barly convosational
isnt bit wird how evreything in frech sounds romantic but nearly evreything in german sounds sort of evil lol no ofence ment there just passing comment

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KW1412
04-29-2003

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to add a pitiful defense of americans, yet still a defense, it must also be considered that even though we do learn languages (and many of us do indeed learn many languages despite general opinion), theres very little place to actually put these languages to use and without practice sometimes a language can lose its value -- the entire continent in Europe barely fills any section of the United States and you can travel across down the road or next door and get a different language, we have to cross and ocean to get any real wide spread use besides as mentioned earlier, spanish and french, but even still, english is still used more so the practice just is not there

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KW1412
04-29-2003

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oh, and to comment on the music issue -- listen to music because you love the music
despite true meaning, ignorance to language, or other opinions -- get your own opinion from it, your own meaning and emotion, and appreciate the emotion that had to go into the song
thats what counts

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djcasura
06-20-2003

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Its kind o'fun to listen to you guys! Well, i'm Norwegian! and i've noticed that there are rammstein-fans from multiple countries here. I saw that one of you claimed that many of european and other foreiger citicens knows english... well,i've bin in at least 7 different european countries, and only half or belov this knew the english language well enough to communicate and make themselves understood. as an example:We (my class) were in the peoples republic of czeck for approx. 3 years ago. We were a gang of 4 boys out to rent a VCR. In the store, we expressed ourseles in six different languages,- and let me say it so: no way in hell they understood what we really ment.. haha in our faces. No VCR that evening.
I know german well enough to understand a lot of the lyrics. Norwegian and german aren't that far from eachother linguisticly seen. some words look almost the same f.ex. "hören" in german is "høre" in Norwegian (ö=ø) and in english its "hear". Actually you can see the similarity between all these languages.
Not all people knows english because of too little contact with the language,as in most eastern european and southern countries,english films and more are dubbed to their domestic language.Ever seen "E.R." dubbed in czeck? hysterical rediculous!
In Norway English films are only subtitled. and 60% of the films are English/American. We also watch The fast and the fuorious, Matrix-reloaded,saving private ryan, titanic and so on. thats not my point. we also have German series and other stuff. our country are multilanguistic. And the only music-genre Norwegian is known by,is Black Metal.so we listen to other well developed languages in music-among them -german.Rammstein are interpreting the german language so well that its almost impossible to translate it to English. Thats what makes the rammstein-lyrics so interesting to listen to-IN GERMAN! some translations in english are almost as rediculous to watch as the czeckdubbed"E.R" So a little more acceptance for the german language would be convenient. I heard my first Rammstein-song for four or five years ago. i was stunned after a couple of songs. How all the components matched together:the lyrics,-the language,-the tones- ALL of it! its so original and unduplicatabe. i have so many superlatives for rammstein that would take me years to write here. Obviously not everyone likes rammstein and industrial technorock or whatever we shall categorize rammstein as. And we should accept this. But as this, it should be accepted from the opposite direction too. So dont write crap about music you cant understand. it does`nt suit you.

Thanks from Michael(and sorry for the language,it will never be perfect :o) )

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TheBaron
04-21-2004

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The key to this song is in the chorus when the band answers "I don't understand you' - This is Rammstein's crowd sing along piece and when they say 'Wir verstehen euch nicht' they are referring to both volume of response as well as the fact that they can't understand how they can influence 20,000 people to do what they say - in this case chant (or how anyone - politicians, religions etc get 20,000 people to do what they say ;-)

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falling_from_grace
05-15-2004

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It's cool that Rammstein are inspiring people to try and improve their German. I'm English, and I speak reasonable German, some French, and a few words of Italian and Mandarin. German is the only language I ever found it easy to learn, and I have a lot of respect for the language, but then English will always be my first love. I don't know how biased I really am on the issue, but I can't help it.
Anyway, about the song, it sounds to me like it has some political undertones, but it is hard to tell. I love the fact that the German lyrics fit so well with the style of music - this is probably the best genre for German, as ballads in German just don't seem to work as well somehow :S.

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freakishfae
11-08-2004

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This song does seem to be about thier view of the fans:
"I want your fantasy
I want your energy
I want to see your hands
I want to go down in applause"
It could also be considered a desperate love song. Actually, it still is, but I mean towards a lover, not your audience. It is still a very powerful song, as can be expected from Rammstein.

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†Joey™†
11-20-2004

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This song is great, the video too. I think its about Rammstein asking the crowd why? Why do they love them? Why are they influenced by them? All of Rammsteins song's are uniqe, and thats what make's them the great band they are. New bands oftern fail because all of their songs sound the same. They should take a leaf out of Rammstein's book and make all their work uniqe.

And about the language thing: I respect Rammstein for singing in their native language. I think they're the biggest german speaking band in the world? It's inspiring me to learn german when i make my choiced at the end of this skool year. Rammstein Rock Forever!!!

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TREXOR
11-29-2004

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good song, lyrics don't mean anything

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rammsteingirl
12-04-2004

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I agree with Xevrathrusra that rammstein is very sexy-sounding. Alot of their lyrics have much sexual connotation involved. I love music that sends shivers up my spine and for me rammstein does that. I could care less what language a song is in, as long as the music is good, and rammstein is the perfect mix of pop and rocks

(or as my friend would say: Rammstein=Pop rocks)

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oldskoolpunker23
12-26-2004

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O think German is the sexiest language in the world, i might be the only one but i dunno i have loved it since grade 7 its GREAT pluss all the german girls i have seen were hot!, to me this is about saying to your parents or who ever that you just want them to believe you and no be liek fuck you you ain't going out to night, if you know what i mean lol

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SnakeGod
02-03-2005

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I think that when they say "I don't understand you" they mean that they can't understand how, after learning that all they want to do is control the people, the people still go along with what they tell them to do. Basically, saying, I don't understand how you can be so blind/naive to whats going on.

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bloodomen
02-17-2005

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the lyrics of this song remind me mostly of a scene from Nazi-Germany when Adolf Hitler and his Propagandaminister Josef Goebbels held speeches to a huge crowd , and they made them believe all their lies until they went completely nuts holding their hands up in the "Hitler Gruß", screaming "Sieg Heil" over and over.
I think pictures of this event would have been great in the video for this track, but of course would also have brought up the false claim that Rammstein are Nazis (which they aren't) and probably also bans for their videos :)
The Lyrics of this song basically just want the crowd to break loose and join in the great live act, but a subtle note still stays - which can be interpreted as eg. Polititians who wanna make you believe all their bullshit without questioning.

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traviswrdunbar
05-05-2005

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Here is the way I see this song. In a live performance, the band and audience feed off each other. The band plays the music, the crowd takes in the music, and the band in turn takes in the crowd's reactions. A good song (like this one) charges up the crowd, and the crowd cheering and screaming for more, and singing along charges up the band.

Now these lyrics are probably a bad translation, but I always got the same feeling from the original version. It just feels like one of those 'lets blow the roof of this joint' kinda songs. Especially in one of the translations I read. he sings 'do you hear me?' (in German, obviously) and the crowd screams back 'we hear you!'

I would hate to be in the pit when this song starts playing. guaranteed, someone always gets hurt with this kinda energy coming from the stage.

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mandeeC
05-23-2005

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Im nicht zu stolz, andere Sprachen und im Amerikanisch dont Stereotyp uns zu lernen.

Im niet naar trots om andere talen en im Amerikaans dont stereotype ons te leren.

O im não a orgulhoso aprender outras linguagens e americano de im vestiu estereótipo nos.

Im no a orgulloso aprender que otro Americano de idiomas y im se puso el estereotipo nosotros.

Im pas à fier pour apprendre d'autres langues et im Américain a mis le stéréotype nous.

im не к гордому изучать другие языки и im американца не делают стереотип нас.

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blink182sux
06-02-2005

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dude what happens to flake..does he blow up or something?
THIS SONG IS SO BAD ASS IF U DON'T LIKE RAMMS+EIN DON'T POST YOUR WORTHLESS OPINIONS STUPID LOSERS GO FIND SOMETHING BETTER TO DO

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Metzengerstein
01-21-2006

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Actually, in an interview Rammstein said this song is about how the media will love anyone who gives them a good story no matter how horrible the person is, and that if the media makes these people rembered throughout history it's no wonder people do such horrible things.

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tin_soldier
02-20-2006

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This vaguely resembles a love song... yet it fucking ROCKS! How ??? Im Confused

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adam07
05-28-2006

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I'm an american and I'll just say I'm embarrassed by idiots who think that any song is shit if it's in a language that you can't understand.

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