Lyrics for Du Hast (English Version) as interpreted by HoldURBreath

Du Hast (English Version) Lyrics
You
You hate
You hate me

You
You hate
You hate me


You hate me to say
You hate me to say
You hate me to say
And I did not obey


Will you until death does sever
Be upright to her forever


Never


Will you 'til death be her rider
Her lover too, to stay inside her


Never

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Mithra
07-18-2009

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Umm, it's quite strange, I;m not that good in german, but I am dutch, and well, I do know that Du hast mich gefragt is You have asked me. So if you would translate du hast as you hate, well, the sentecne will be "You hate asked me" Soin my eyes, there's not really any debate about this, because the whole song would be translated incorrectly. the one who translated it on the cd probably was really bad in english...

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Cold_Steel_Heart
07-15-2009

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OK, i know this one, Du Hast, the real German version, is a play on Wedding vows...Du Hast mich is "You HAVE me" trust me, 4 years of german classes under my belt :)

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rocker1190
11-29-2007

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Saying "you hate" makes no sense. I don't care what you people really think about it but I swear almost every song I translate from a foreign language, I get a weird translation.

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MSIISM
09-25-2007

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THANK YOU Raptor, I have been reading all these peoples comments, I skipped a whole page...But anyway, ya, Rammstein loves to work with homophones. It's just one of their things. Someone said it at the very top of the first page too. Listen to more stuff of theirs, Ibet you could all find a few more homophones.I'm no big rammstein fan, but even my german teacher who grew up in Germany says that...

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raptor6099
06-09-2007

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Hear me out. I know it's been said before but I'm saying it again: The song has a double meaning. German has a lot of homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently, like two and too). Many of Rammstein's songs have double meanings, and they choose their words carefully to accomplish that. In the German version of the song, it means hate and have, but for them to translate it, English 'have' and 'hate' dont sound the same so they could not include the same message in their song. They probably just decided on one meaning and went with it. I'm not fluent in German but I'm learning it and I've done a lot of reading on Rammstein and their music and I've read German and English lyrics to most of their songs so I at least have an idea of what I'm talking about instead of just saying people who disagree with me are wrong.

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Dierdra
04-30-2007

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Kay, so that's wrong...

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juggalos2d
03-23-2007

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This is a play off or next chapter from Heirate Mich on the first album. He is answering her with never. In the german version he says nein but in the form he uses it does somewhat mean never. They just put the song in perspective for the english population. Also Richard speaks perfect english he live in New York.

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ohxmy_spaceship
08-17-2006

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My German teacher listen to Rammstein and he lived in Germany for about 15 years and he said its have, not hate. but Im not dissagreeing with anyone so yeah. But thw whole wedding thing is right.

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Corrosive30
02-17-2006

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You you do not have you have me you have me asked you me asked and I have anything said want you to death you separate faithful it to be for all meet NO want you up to death separate you love also in schletchten to meet NO

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skwirllover
07-24-2005

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the english version and the original german version are two different songs--the english version is not a translated version of the german, it is just a song in english that follows the same pattern as the german

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crimeofpassion
06-09-2005

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Thank you, =Filth=. Someone else giving the whole double meaning idea a chance.

That's one thing I like about this song. There are so many plays on words and such. Most of the song is a play on German wedding vows, and the whole hast/hasst thing adds a very nice effect to the whole song, in my opinion.

On an unrelated note, I just listened to the English version again... Once again, if you haven't heard it, be glad. If anyone wants it, I'll send the file to you, if you'd like, but I don't think you want it.

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=Filth=
05-19-2005

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i think it has a double meaning a lot of rammstein songs have double meanings, a play on the german language...

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newagehippie
04-07-2005

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Y do people always assume its just you hate me, it is about hesitation depending on how you translate it. The line where he says "du hast mich gefragt und ich hab nicht gesagt" Is what the "du, du hast, du hast mich" was building up to. that is how you make past tense in German (well one of the ways) is to put the form of haben (hast in this case) in their and change the word at the end. but yes idk if rammstein meant hasst or hast. Hasst means to hate, hast is just a form of haben used to for past tense. but if it is hasst then "du hasst mich gefragt" makes no sense, it does not mean anything. "du hast mich gefragt" though means you asked me.

But yeah w/e that is y rammstein did it i believe to show the double meaning of it

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crimeofpassion
03-27-2005

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Okay, am I the ONLY person here who knows that there actually is an English version of "Du hast"? It was sung in English, and those are the lyrics to it. It's not supposed to be a translation.

If you haven't heard it, don't worry; you aren't missing anything. It sucked pretty hard.

And with the whole argument between the whole "have" and "hate" thing, at least in German, I personally think it's supposed to be a little of both. Because until Till says "du hast mich gefragt", it could have been translated (by listening only, of course, since the official lyrics say "Du hast" instead of "Du haßt") as "you, you hate, you hate me." It gives the song a bit of a double meaning.

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Juberannpea
03-27-2005

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they really REALLY need to correct their english translation PRONTO!

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chum1120
03-22-2005

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On a website, it talks about the double meaning because "to hate" and "to have" sound a like in German, and both lyrics fit in, but meaning opposite things.

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666_kill_me_666
02-11-2005

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lol.. and to correct the first dipshit on the fuckin list.. yes in a certain way hast does mean have in german.. but have you ever heard of condrigations? hast may be a condrigation of hasse in the tense that it is used in this song.. so dont knock this shit man.. rammstein translated it.. therefore it is their song.. if they say du hast means you hate then it does.. if they say it means you shit.. it doesnt fucking matter it is their song.. they can write and sing it however they want and yes those lyrics are correct.. if you think it is so wrong.. take it up with rammstein.. all these people were doing was to allow you to understand what the fuck the singer was saying.. not to translate it

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jafa fari
12-23-2004

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Will you 'til death be her rider
Her lover too, to stay inside her
maybe it also means, cud u stand 2 only have sex with one person for the rest of your life? lol. scary thought

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Samnosuke
12-02-2004

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Yah i have to say that the song is mostly based on trust or whatever. Either way you look at it.

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rapsucksass
11-22-2004

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who ever translated this song sucks

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pimpology
11-11-2004

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The lyrics at the top are right. Listen to the english version to it and ya'll will c.

Rammstein is the shit!!!!!

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Lani
11-05-2004

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[quote="daCooper"]great job of rammstein...becoz u react to the song like they want u to react..it´s so easy with the song...it´s a pun, nothing but a pun. thauglor is right when he says that the spelling of hast (have) and hasst (hate) is diffrent but the pronuncation is exactly the same. in the context of "du hast mich gefragt und ich habe nichts gesagt" is the only meaning "have", so "u have asked me and i said nothing". BUT u can easily gather from the context of "du hast mich" that he says "u hate me"; this play on words is what the song makes so interesting and not translatable into any other language.[/quote]

[quote="TheBaron"]Let me just add this (again). In my opinion the german lyrics refer to both meanings of the word (hate and have) in a clever play on word meanings - this however only works in the german language - when translating you have to choose one or the other to have meaningful english lyrics. Probably the best way to look at it is to say that the english song is in fact 'completely different in meaning' to the german song.[/quote]

yeah, that's exactly the way I do interpret the lyrics as a German. There is DEFINITELY a double meaning of the line "Du has(s)t mich" - if you see it in context to the following line - "Du hast mich gefragt", then it is "You have asked me" - but if you see only the line "Du has(s)t mich" - only this line for itself - then it could also mean "You hate me", because the pronunciation is THE SAME. It's that simple. And like I said, it is only for THAT line, because in the following lines you see clearly from the context that it's "You have asked me", because "You hate asked me" makes no sense, duh.

Personally I think that Rammstein changed the "have" inot "hate" because - translate these lines literally:

Du You
Du hast You have
Du has(s)t mich You have / hate me

So what makes more sense in the English language? Of course the "you hate me", because "you have me" is kind of a nonsense phrase. If at all, it must have been "you have ASKED me", but not just "you have me". That is because the german and english WORD ORDER is different - in the german version the "asked" comes after the "have me", so the "you have me asked" makes only sense in german, but not in English. I hope you guys understand what I'm trying to explain you about the german grammar and word order - English is not my mother tongue, so sorry for my poor English. Anyway, that's why a verbatim translation had made no sense for that 3rd line again. BTW, it's always about the 3rd line (Du has(s)t mich), did you guys notice that? LOL.

Anyway, another personal thought of mine is that it is indeed a word play with a double meaning. "Du hast mich" makes sense as well as "Du haßt mich", even though the "wedding vow"-fraction might totally beg to differ. Yeah, it's true, the song is about a wedding vow, but "Du haßt mich" (You hate me) still makes sense, because the person the song is addressed to might actually HAVE a reason to HATE the "singer" - because the singer turned the addressed person down by saying "NO" to the whole wedding thing. Hmm....did you get my point?

Alright, that was almost a novel, but this is my interpretation and I just wanted throw in some thought-provoking impulses! Peace. ;o)

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bored_1
09-26-2004

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ok, if you all knew anything about rammstein, or this song, or knew ne german, and clearly u don't, you would know that there are 2 translations

one says hate, and one says have.
technically the actual word hast does translate from german to engilsh to have, but, some people think that have is not as good. so, they changed it to hate. there is a full list of all the different languages it translates to here: http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Rink/8664/duhast.html#2

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Anglos
06-24-2004

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Did everyone double post but with a large interval?
I just saw the same things repeated over and over again, a nice civil argument.

Please don't flame me lol, it's just come on, read over this whole thing and it's saying it's then then that and then rinse wash and repeat.

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EinFlügelEngel
05-31-2004

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are people just retarded the freakin official translation from the CD says hate god damnit...the german version is a play on words but not the english one......geezus

~I just wanted to reiterate my opinion to add on to the obvious, just as TheBaron and others have done.

*OneWingAngel - PWNs you all*

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