A keresés eredménye

Letter in a bottle

I wrote it down with ink
rolled my secret thoughts up in paper
I will drunkenly stuff it into the bottle
gift it to waves with a toss
 
Now you think that it is love
that I entrusted the bottle
be surprised because it are the slaps1
that lustfully hit my bride2
 
Into the glass it pours
and you read what I want to give you
across the sea it drifts to you
full of lust3 the message in the bottle
 
I bend her over, please don't think badly of it
stuff a cloud under her belly
exactly because she doesn't expect it,
my darling gets the hose from behind
 
Into the glass it pours...
 
Like a swarm of bees I want to serve you
without stinging without avenging
offering and becoming horny
with what you're stingy is what entices me
 
Into the glass it pours...
 
The message in a bottle
full of lust it comes from me
the message in a bottle
 

• 1. directly it would mean beating, but less fitting for the rest of the lyrics
• 2. could also be translated as woman
• 3. usually, 'Gier' would be translated as greed, lust is a rarer use, but more fitting in this context

When I am strung up at the gallows

The inquisition it already holds me
with an evil glare on a rope
I had thought out loud
that the earth was flat, flat, flat
 
When I am strung up at the gallows
I will know how heavy my ass was
one more loud scream, a scream, a scream, a scream
 
Damned as a heretic into hell
the stars in the sky they were my grave
the noose tightens
will soon finish me off
 
When I am strung up at the gallows
I will know how heavy my ass was
one more loud scream, a scream, a scream, a scream
 
They preach water and drink wine
that should be a lesson for all
a cloth covering my eyes
then a loud curse
 
When I am strung up at the gallows
I will know how heavy my ass was
one more loud scream, a scream, a scream, a scream
 

Belladonna

[Verse 1]
The girl on the broom
flies to me at night
the girl on the broom
I am drawn to her magically
 
Come into the house, sweep the sadness away
bring in what we both desire
a life in the lap of luxury
let us take from the heavens now
 
I'm sure you know the best1 game
come sit on the broom handle
 
[Chorus]
Witch, witch, yes you sweep through my night
(you) come in and it gets loud
(you) show me your white skin
witch, witch, yes you sweep through my night
Belladonna, hot blood
fire stokes the flying sparks
 
[Verse 2]
The girl with the broom
(you) are the one that I mean
the damn beautiful being
carries the same stones that I do
 
You open the garden of Eden for me
(you) lie spread eagled you bad girl
(you) make my suffering your own
you most beautiful of the heaven's violins
 
I'm sure you know the best game
come sit on the broom handle
 
[Chorus]
Witch, witch, yes you sweep through my night
(you) come in and it gets loud
(you) show me your white skin
witch, witch, yes you sweep through my night
Belladonna, hot blood
fire stokes the flying sparks
 
[Chorus]
Witch, witch, yes you sweep through my night
(you) come in and it gets loud
(you) show me your white skin
witch, witch, yes you sweep through my night
Belladonna, hot blood
fire stokes the flying sparks
 

• 1. literally 'most beautiful'

I'm blooming

Please be silent for once, nightingale
And may my voice rise from my chest.
Oh, oh, I'm blooming.
 
I'm burning from a virgin love,
It's a new love, a new love which is killing me,
It's a new love, a new love which is killing me.
 
Here comes the ages of joy —oh virgins!
And you young men, make the most of it.
Oh, oh, I'm blooming.
 
I'm in love…
 
Come my damsel, come with great pleasure

I saw a wolf

I saw a wolf, a fox, a hare
I saw a wolf, a fox dancing
I saw a wolf, a fox, a hare
I saw a wolf, a fox dancing
All three were dancing round a tree
I saw a wolf, a fox, a hare
All three were dancing round a tree
They were dancing round a leafy bush
 
Here, they toil away all year long
To gain a few coins
Here, they toil away all year long
To gain a few coins
And within one month
I saw a wolf, a fox, a hare
Ripping us off
I saw a hare, a fox, a wolf
 
I saw a wolf, a fox, a hare
I saw a wolf, a fox dancing
I saw a wolf, a fox, a hare
I saw a wolf, a fox dancing
I saw a wolf, a fox, a hare
I saw a wolf, a fox dancing
I saw a wolf, a fox, a hare
I saw a wolf, a fox dancing
 
I saw a wolf, a fox, a hare
I saw a wolf, a fox dancing
All three were dancing round a tree
I saw a wolf, a fox, a hare
All three were dancing round a tree
They were dancing round a leafy bush
 

In your smile's light

In the light of your smile, thus the sun
and its gleam weakened my youth in the delight of your desert
There you'll mock me me, the secret of your eyes
it was revealled to me, they told me hinted to me that I'm your love
 
But I saw you in the evening,
and my inner feelings are prey to you,
come please, come, please come to me.
 

Sea of Clouds

Above our world
Under a starry sky
We were born
And we swore
To belong to one another
To captivate one another
To give our all to one another
All for a beautiful life.
 
Fly with me
Take me away from here
Rough winds
Stir my heart to thee
An arduous journey
Of no return
High above
the sea of clouds.
 
I reach
The top of the world
Then I realize up there
What bound me to you
Time takes its course
My destiny up for grabs
A shard deep in my heart
It remains in silent agony.
 
Fly with me
Take me away from here
Rough winds
Stir my heart to thee
An arduous journey
Of no return
High above
the sea of clouds.
 

Palestine Song

As he wanted to take pity on us,
here he suffered grim death,
he, most rich, on us, most poor,
that we might escape from woe.
That he was not vexed by this,
this is a miracle all too great,
beyond all other miracles.]
 
Thence the Son rode to hell,
from the grave wherein he lay.
For he was an eternal companion to the Father,
and to the Spirit, which no one may
divide: They are all One,
straighter and smoother than an arrow-shaft,
as He appeared to Abraham.
 
Hallelujah
 
Having humiliated the devil there,
such that no emperor has ever fought better,
he travelled back to this land.
Then began the Jews' sorrow:
 
Hallelujah
 

The Minstrel's Curse

Once upon a time there was a king, rich in land and victories,
He sat on his throne dark and pale.
What he muses is horror, what he looks at is anger,
What he speaks is scourge, what he writes is blood.
 
Once a noble pair of singers moved to this castle,
One black curls, the other gray hair.
The gray man said to the boy, 'Be ready, my son,
Play the best songs, tune to the fullest! '
 
It's raining, it's raining,
It is raining the minstrel curse. (2x)
 
The two singers play in the high column hall.
On the throne sits the royal couple.
The king as splendid as bloody north,
The queen as sweet as the sunshine.
 
They sing about Spring, love, [and] holiness.
She melted in sadness, lust was also there.
'You blinded my people, are you asking [for] my wife?'
The king screams angrily, he shakes all over.
 
It's raining, it's raining
It rains the minstrel's curse (2x)
 
The king's sword flashing pierces the young man's chest.
Instead of the golden songs now a blood jet jumps.
The boy has gone to sleep in his Master's arm.
Then the old man screams scary, the marble hall shatters:
 
'You damn murderer, you curse the bandmates
All your hand wringing will be in vain, stained with blood your doing!
The king's name says no songs, no stories.
Sunken and forgotten - that's the Minstrel's curse! '
 
It's raining, it's raining,
It is raining the minstrel's curse. (2x)
 

In front of full bowls

He was the Earth's poorest knight
He was worse off than bad
They spat at him and burned disgrace into his flesh
 
In front of full bowls I must die of hunger
By the hot oven, I freeze to death
Wherever I reach, nothing falls but shards
I'm in shit up to my teeth
I'm in shit up to my teeth
 
The last hair from my skull
Has made a blank silver moon
I barely have a fig leaf to wear
Everywhere I'm venerated1 and spat at
Everywhere I'm venerated and spat at
 
I'm up to my neck in bad luck
And I even sleep under an elder bush
Upon which not one star has ever shone
Everywhere I'm venerated and spat at
Everywhere I'm venerated and spat at
 

• 1. 'Verehrt' seems completely out of place here.

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Evander