Lyrics for Dalai Lama (english) as interpreted by Shoot_Me

Dalai Lama (english) Lyrics
An airplane is in the evening wind
On board is a man with his child as well
They sit secure and warm
and so they fall into the trap of sleep
In three hours they will be there
for mama's birthday
The view is good the sky is clear

Onwards, onwards into destruction
We must live until we die
Humans don't belong in the sky
So the lord in Heaven calls
his sons to the wind
Bring me this human child

The child has still lost time
Then an echo jumps to his ears
A muffled rumbling drives the night
and the driver of the clouds laughs
He shakes the human cargo awake

Onwards, onwards into destruction
We must live until we die
And the child says to the father
Don't you hear the thunder
That's the king of all the winds
He wants me to become his child

From the clouds falls a choir
which crawls into the little ear
Come here, stay here
We'll be good to you
Come here, stay here
We are your brothers

The storm embraces the flying machine
The pressure falls quickly in the cabin
A muffled rumbling drives the night
In panic the human cargo screams

Onwards, onwards into destruction
We must live until we die
And to God the child pleads
Heaven take back the wind
Bring us unharmed to earth

From the clouds falls a choir
which crawls into the little ear
Come here, stay here
We'll be good to you
Come here, stay here
We are your brothers

The father is now holding onto the child
and has pressed it tightly against himself
He doesn't notice it's difficulty in breathing
But fear knows no mercy
So with his arms the father
squeezes the soul from the child
Which takes it's place upon the wind and sings:

Come here, stay here
We'll be good to you
Come here, stay here
We are your brothers

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†Joey™†
10-26-2004

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Holy shit... I thought this song was heavy before i read the english lyrics... This song kicks ass and so do Rammstein!!!

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Tappos
11-15-2004

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yeah, this is my favorite song on Reise Reise. It is totally badass when you can understand it in German. Teh message just makes it a million times better.

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LadyMage
11-22-2004

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wow, deep I can only say this, They are poets

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TREXOR
11-27-2004

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it's about people dying in a plane crash, i think.

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Nerfix
12-01-2004

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This song is partially based on a poem, possibly an old one. Saddly I can't remember who wrote it.

Anyway I think that this is mostly an imago song for Rammstein. Afterall the band did get their name from an flight accident.

Also, it is said that the current Dalai Lama is afraid of flying...

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freakishfae
12-01-2004

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A father and a son in an airplane. They are going to see thier wife/mother on her birthday. Apparently, God doesn't like that humans ascending to the sky by themselves (ex. the Tower of Babel), so he decides to kill the child and take his soul by sending winds to cause the airplane to crash. The father, frightened, grabs his son to himself and ends up squeezing him to death. And in that way, the child ascends to heaven and becomes God's child...

Truly a sad tale. I think this may be a (negative) commentary on Christian ideas. Often when a person dies in an accident, people say "they are with God now", or that God has decided it is thier time. This song reminds me of this, so perhaps it is ment to be an example of how selfish and destructive God is. There is also an interesting symbolism concerning male and female in this song. In the beginning, they are going to visit "mother". They are very close, and fall into a deep, warm sleep (the womb; sleep is associated with the unconsciousness, both are associated with the feminine), but God (male) doesn't like this and "shakes the human cargo awake". The lines "Heaven take back the wind
Bring us unharmed to earth" also support this as, pretty much universally, earth has been associated with the feminine. The voices say to the liittle boy "Come here, stay here, we are your brothers. The sons father ends up killing him...Uhm, my point? I don't know... *-*

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TREXOR
01-05-2005

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no offense, but you should have stopped talking before you started.

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rammsteingirl
02-26-2005

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this song reminds me of a kamikazi (spelling?) for some reason.

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rammsteingirl
02-26-2005

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oh wait i know why! its because of the onward onward into destruction, because if anyone knows anything about kamikazi's its that they are dedicated to something so much they will even give up their own lives for it, and i think maybe the kid though he was meant for something better, so he crashed the plane!

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blink182sux
03-09-2005

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ummm... i am so fucking confused right now
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TREXOR
03-16-2005

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this song is teh sick, and it deserves 6 bajillion comments, so here goes...

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TREXOR
03-17-2005

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TREXOR
03-17-2005

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3, this could be a while...

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TREXOR
03-17-2005

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6 *is getting tired already*

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TREXOR
03-17-2005

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TREXOR
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TREXOR
03-17-2005

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11, how much is a bajillion, anyways?

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TREXOR
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