Anybody who understands German?

[tilia_tomentosa]

I'm looking for a good translation of these song lyrics from German into English. I've only found this version so far, but there is a t least one obvious mistake in the transcript of the original that had lead to a mistake in the translation, and... I'm not sure of anything.

I already feel tempted to use the Russian subtitles of this video (and

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[steinkrauz]

"original german lyrics" below the translation is right, as far as I can hear.

An easy text, in general. You can easily translate it with Google by yourself.

Or I can do it, but later: I have some supper to eat. ;)

[tilia_tomentosa]

Google Chrome manages the translation... well, decently enough for a machine translation, but I want a really coherent version, and I understand very few words of German. Damn, where is that dictionary we must have somewhere at home, but haven't been able to find it of years? LOL

The first link is to the singer's official site, so the lyrics there must be correct.

But let's wait a little to see if some of the native speakers of English understands German; I don't want to torture you with a translation from one foreign language into another.

[steinkrauz]

I'd chose not to wait and have some fun instead.

You dress yourself in your wealth, hide yourself in the cliché

[tilia_tomentosa]

Thank you, D. :)

I forwarded your translation to a friend-of-a-friend in the uS who understands German, so we'll see about that.

[dan4behr]

Well.... Germans certainly aren't shy are they?

[tilia_tomentosa]

At least not this one. :)

[steinkrauz]

For sure. One Michael Fassbender do have a German parentage too :)

[tilia_tomentosa]

LOL D. this is a public entry - what if you shock some innocent representative of the general public? ;)

[kirbymiles]

Well hmmm - not sure I care if I understand a word he is saying - LOL