Translation please? (German?)

[Iolaus]

My litlle (15 yr) girl wants me to buy this shirt for her, but I hesitate to buy her anything with foreign wording on it without knowing what is says; the Front Reads "RAMMSTEIN" and "Reise, Reise". The Back Reads: "WEITER WEITER INS VERDERBEN WIR MUSSEN LEBVEN BIS WIR STERBEN." I'm assuming it's German.

[Mattg]

I believe Rammstein is a name. Resien means journey or trip. The full sentence is "onward in ruin we must love till our death." That's the jist of it.

[arrogcow]

Use babel fish to translate http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn

Adam

[Nick]

Rammstein is a German band. I don't know exactly how to classify them, sort of heavy metal/dark rock sort of stuff (and not at all my thing). I can't translate for you, but that at least gives a bit of context.

(Edit: I tried Babelfish, it didn't translate half the phrase.)

[ByDand]

Iolaus, From a German language major in the office. She says translation is approximately, "Further, further into death (or dying) we must live until we die" She is not 100% sure but feels that is very close. Hope that helps!

[RockyR]

Ramstein is one of the few bands from another country who sings in a different language to have a GOOD SIZED US audience.

They're stage show is pretty cool (pyrotechnichally speaking).

[chasem]

Rammstein is a band. They toured with Korn about 5 years ago, and I saw a video of that, that's all I really know about them, is what I saw from that video.

I won't go into detail here, being a family-oriented forum and all, but to be general about it, their act was somewhat vulgar.

[The Wizard of BC]

My 27 yr. old seamstress is from Berlin. She says this is her favorite
German group. Although she warns that the music is very good. the lyrics are over the top toward vulgar.
A translation of the words is;
"Journey, Journey. Further, further towards perdition, we must live until we die."

According to her, one of the most famous songs by Rammstein is about a man who digs up the corpse of his wife to make love to her again.

Very dark and Gothic. She describes the stage show as a cross between Kiss and Alice Cooper. Both on acid.

[Iolaus]

Ok, thanks all.

I'm not going to worry too much about the lyrical content of the music she listens to; she's across the country, so I couldn't control it if I wanted to. Besides, who here listened to their parents about music anyway! No, I just didn't want to be buying something profane or vulgar for her to wear.

That phrase isn't too bad. Now that I know what it says, I've got to clear it with her mom.

Sigh. Things like this would've been so much easier if they'd stayed out here.

[herminator]

Iolaus, From a German language major in the office. She says translation is approximately, "Further, further into death (or dying) we must live until we die" She is not 100% sure but feels that is very close. Hope that helps!

From a german: yes, that´s it!