Rammstein Engel lyric with English translation

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Wer zu Lebzeit gut auf Erden
wird nach dem Tod ein Engel werden
den Blick gen Himmel fragst du dann
warum man sie nicht sehen kann

Erst wenn die Wolken schlafengehn
kann man uns am Himmel sehn
wir haben Angst und sind allein

Gott weiß ich will kein Engel sein

Sie leben hinterm Sonnenschein
getrennt von uns unendlich weit
sie müssen sich an Sterne krallen (ganz fest)
damit sie nicht vom Himmel fallen

Erst wenn die Wolken schlafengehn
kann man uns am Himmel sehn
wir haben Angst und sind allein

Gott weiß ich will kein Engel sein

Erst wenn die Wolken schlafengehn
kann man uns am Himmel sehn
wir haben Angst und sind allein

Gott weiß ich will kein Engel sein
Who in their lifetime is good on Earth
and will become an angel after death
you look to the sky and ask
why can't you see them

First if the clouds have gone to sleep
you can see us in the sky
we are afraid and alone

God knows I don't want to be an angel

They live behind the sunshine
separated from us, infinite expanse
they must cling to the stars (very tightly)
so they won't fall from the sky

First if the clouds have gone to sleep
you can see us in the sky
we are afraid and alone

God knows I don't want to be an angel

First if the clouds have gone to sleep
you can see us in the sky
we are afraid and alone

God knows I don't want to be an angel

This song is about how some people believe in angels, and that good people become them after death, but we wonder why we never can see them. The lyrics of this song can also be seen as doubting the existence of God. Near the end of each chorus, Till states, “God knows I don’t want to be an angel.”

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Comment by joe
2007-11-07 20:43:13

i thought he said something about god sending another angel when he dies… i have the English version and know close to no German

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Comment by Mariana
2007-12-11 21:40:14

I’m Argentinian, but speak english and undestrand just a bit of german.

What I think is that the lyrics is trying to describe some kind of inexplainable feeling of darkness and lonelyness. Some felling of never reaching what sould be done. We are not angels (and don’t wan’t to be)…it’s impossible to reach perfection.

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Comment by TheJerkMachine AUSTRALIA
2008-01-26 05:31:48

yeah its about loneleyness and how people think they are above other people, and they are the most lonely

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Comment by Rocco
2007-12-18 23:35:27

totally agree with that… I’m learning german through this website so.. I wouldn’t have been able to realize what you have just said without the english translation on the side :P
(or without your comment:P)

PS: I’m Argentinian too!!

 
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Comment by Segeta GERMANY
2008-01-31 22:42:14

I think it’s a very sad song about prostituts of womans, children and (we can se in the music video in the end) mans.

Gott weiß ich will kein Engel sein.
–> the Girl (child/man) is a angel for the man (woman)

I have analyse the lyric (I’m a german fan)… You can beliv me :)

 
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Comment by ZackV
2008-02-01 15:20:47

I think its “God knows I dont want to be an angel”, seems more implace

 
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Comment by Dustin UNITED STATES
2008-03-14 09:23:43

We can all think we know whats being said but we will probly never know the true meaning of this song or any of them for that matter but hey we enjoy the songs right.

 
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Comment by Malach POLAND
2008-04-10 16:35:16

Everybdy schould find the “true meaning” for himself.

My “true meaning” could be other that yours.

 
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Comment by Rinestein-47
2008-04-23 03:54:19

the lyrics are wrong they are not like this

 
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Comment by Tom UNITED STATES Subscribed to comments via email
2008-06-13 20:11:39

Engle

the crew leaving the building in the video says they don’t want to be part of a god and his angles that hide. They are saying, no thanks, if that is what you are about, I don’t want to know you. If there is no beer in heaven then fuck you.

 
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Comment by BEHROOZ.T ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
2008-06-22 07:50:23

So God knows i dont want to be an angel means “i’ll keep on sins” what do ya think?

 
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Comment by James
2008-08-15 22:28:48

@Joe, you are correct. There is an english version on the album and this translation is WAY off from that.

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Comment by brianna UNITED STATES
2008-08-19 16:51:10

they make the english versions rythme in english not as translations for the retards who won’t learn german

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Comment by James
2008-08-15 22:34:57

I think this is the proper English version:

Live in virtue, no desire
In the grave an angel’s choir
You look to heaven and wonder why
No one can see them in the sky

Just as the clouds have gone to sleep
Angels can be seen in heaven’s keep
Alone in fear they question why
Goddamn not an angel when I die

Angels live, they never die
Apart from us, behind the sky
They’re fading souls who’ve turned to ice
So ashen white in paradise

Just as the clouds have gone to sleep
Angels can be seen in heaven’s keep
Alone in fear they question why
Goddamn not an angel when I die

Goddamn an angel when I die
Heaven must be hell in the sky

 
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Comment by Tom UNITED STATES Subscribed to comments via email
2008-08-19 18:22:25

ya, James gotta good poem. The video changes your mind because of the almost naked lady feeding booze to a man who is in great desire of her flesh. Simply put, do you wonder why if there are angels, why do they ride motor cycles and say that they are from hell, and get away with it….or do they? do you wonder why, if there is no pizza in africa the reason for starvation is that no one knows how to cook it? .. . . . .or are there angels preventing this - the ones that have fallen from the sky

 
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