Clap Your Hands Say NE!

As they said on "Laugh-In," "Verrrry interesting..."

Scott, really glad to have you back. Ignore the haters; Jed and Jim did a good job in your absence, but I'm sure they're glad you're back, too. Keep'em around. Good for another perspective.

Posted by: sonicdeath99 at 10/29/05 10:31 PM | Reply
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HEY! Something German on Stereogum!!!!
What do you wanna know? The Titel means "from now on blind" if u liked that u should hear "nur ein wort" (only a word) or Aurèlie.
Take a look at:
http://www.wirsindhelden.de/engl/wahrheit.html
It´s in english
and they have videos as well
If u ever need mor german related infos just mail
Greetings from Germany
Thomas

Posted by: thomas at 10/29/05 10:48 PM | Reply
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It is incredibly difficult to translate Helden lyrics as they are highly idiomatic and sometimes simply absurd. But I will give it a try, and you might get a glimpse at what they are singing about.

The title, as already said, means "From now on blind." However, the preposition "hier" means "here" rather than "now". "Ich weiß nicht weiter" ought to be translated into "I was at a loss", but again for the sake of the road metaphor I used "I don’t know how to go on any further" particularly as the next line "I have never been" needs the "further" of the last sentence to make sense at all ("further I have never been"). The wagon (more likely a car) appears to be the metaphor for the partner, referred to as "he". Both partner (if male) and "wagen" are gramatically masculine. At the end of the song, they are singing about "flausen" which actually are "silly ideas". Yet, "flausen" are never put in one's ear (Ohr) - they used "Ohr2 to rhyme with "davor".

From now on blind

Between two questions
In the gap between two days
Nothing more was to say
Nothing to grieve about and I
Took the wagon
And got on my knees in front of it
I said:
I don’t know how to go on any further
I have never been

Me and the wagon
And the swarm of bees in my stomach
And the road to be beaten
We got along but
Two days ago
The wagon got on its knees

He said
I don’t know how to go on any further
I have never been

I don’t know how to go on any further
I don’t know where we are,
I don’t know how to go on any further
From now on blind
From now on blind
From now on

Me and my stomach
And the head in my collar
Carried blindly by two feet
That don’t say a word
Except:
Surrender
And get on your knees at last
I said
I don’t know how to go on any further
I have never been

I don’t know how to go on any further

And less than one thousand meters before the gate outside
A roar sounded and a male choir sang

Then there was silence and in-between and before
The pause put a new bug in my ear
And I
I don’t know how to go on any further

Posted by: Justus at 10/29/05 11:25 PM | Reply
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look who's just catching on. its a waste of time to listen to wir sind helden in english...it just doesn't mean the same thing. listen to it in german or not at all.

Posted by: johnny come lately at 10/30/05 3:09 AM | Reply
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uh. major suckage.

Posted by: kat at 10/30/05 6:00 AM | Reply
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here in germany mostly teenage girls listen to the "helden"... so much for the profundity of their lyrics..

Posted by: shlab at 10/30/05 1:33 PM | Reply
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You gotta try some other tracks from the "Heroes"... Like, "Zuhaelter"(meaning Pimp, but not anything like that 50 Cent track) and "Guten Tag".

Those are pure awesomeness.

Posted by: Kiks at 10/30/05 2:03 PM | Reply
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quote:
'here in germany mostly teenage girls listen to the "helden"... so much for the profundity of their lyrics..'

that's absolutely wrong. WSH is not a band making songs for teenagers. it's not right that mostly teenage girls listen to their songs.

Posted by: shearer at 11/01/05 12:06 PM | Reply
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Hi All. I am not a teenage girl, but a 33 year old Aussie guy. I just went to see the Helden play a concert in Mainz and they were AWESOME!!! Interesting that I was not the oldest person there - there was definitely a mix of ages. I am going to improve my German so that I can understand the lyrics better :-)

Posted by: Matt from Sydney at 11/26/05 5:04 PM | Reply
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