Please help me with these German lyrics, okay?

The song is "Bittersweet" from Roxy Music's Album "Country Life."

Bitter - Sweet
(Bryan Ferry/Andy Mackay)

Well this is such
A sad affair
I've opened up my heart
So many times
But now it's closed
Oh my dear
Every salted tear
It wrings
Bitter - sweet applause
But when the show's in full swing
Every once in a while
High stepping chorus lines
Mean I'm forgetting
Mein lullaby - liebchen
How rich in contrast
Love can be
Sometimes I'm quite amused
To see it twist and turn
To taste - both sweet and dry
These vintage years!
Lovers you consume, my friend
As others their wine
Nein - das ist nicht
Das ende der welt
Gestrandet an leben und kunst
Und das spiel geht weiter
Wie man weiss
Noch viele schönste...wiedershen
And now, as you turn to leave
You try to force a smile -
As if to compensate -
Then you break down and cry

© E.G. Music Ltd 1974
http://www.roxyrama.com/classic/lyrics/roxy_music/bitter_sweet.shtml

Okay, now I'll isolate the German verse:

"Nein - das ist nicht
Das ende der welt
Gestrandet an leben und kunst
Und das spiel geht weiter
Wie man weiss
Noch viele schönste...wiedershen"

Here is what I got from my mother's rusty German...

"No, this is the night
......
......freedom and art
.........
...goodbye"

Please help. Thank you.

no, this is not
the end of the world
(I don't know this word- google translate says stranded) and love and art
and the game goes on
who knows
with many beautiful... goodbyes

That makes sense to me. I have no idea what that word means either.

I love the bots.


"Here's to the guys and gals who like to fly/flying so high/with some guy/in the sky..."
-Tom Servo Air Force Chorus

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...after living there for 3-1/2 years, but after not
speaking almost a word of it for over 30 hears, here's
the best I can do:
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no - that is not
the end of the world
Stranded in life and art
and the game goes on
as everybody knows
with many nice ("goodbyes" or "reunions")
Rama Lama, Rama Lama Ding Dong.
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I bet tango-tee comes riding a weisse Pferd to the rescue.
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Rama Lama, Rama Lama Ding Dong to you, too!

Who put the bomp in the bomp she bomp she? Maybe Bryan Ferry knows?

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...and I've come to believe that it means, "I desperately
want you to be meine babydaddy!!!"
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Or "White Horse".
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You decide.
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I'm pretty happy about either translation.
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:spank:

Here I am on Rosinante. You did a great job of translating!

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Once, when trying to impress a young Czech woman's parents
with my (ahem) "honorable" intentions (no, REALLY) (really)
(REALLY and stop LAUGHING!!), I asked my Czech "friends"
how to say Old School dating-style, "I'd like your permission
to take your daughter out to dinner" in Czechoslovakian.
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When I told them that with my big blue eyes and my innocent
smalltown Midwestern face, they bundled up their daughter and
scurried out of the gasthaus, never to be seen again.
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NO sense of humor.
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My "friends" were HOWLING!!!!!!
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When those assholes of assholes finally calmed down, I found
that I had told her parents that their daughter had breasts
like the Alps.
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I gotta admit.
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That's pretty damned funny!!!!!
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NOW.
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I think it's pretty damn funny when it happens to other people (chortle! sniff! tee hee hee!), but hate it when it happens to myself.

When I lived in Sicily, there was a problem with the water pipe, and my whole bathroom had to be dismantled. Finally, Mister Master Plumber himself showed up together with landlady and landlord, and there was also yours truly with her dictionary.

Looked up the word "waterpipe" and tried to make a little small talk with the plumber about new waterpipes and their merits compared to old ones. The smile disappeared off his face, he took on strange shade of purple, left the apartment in a huff and slammed the door behind himself. Landlord was crying tears of mirth, landlady looked at me in shock. I can only *imagine* what I said. Still :blush: when I think about that. OMG... :blush: :blush:

Great stuff.



Hi elshiva!

:hi:

They are part of the family. I've played a lot their songs and live performances for my parents. They like them, but not as much as I do!



Have you seen the live performances and the hand gestures that Bryan Ferry does?

I don't know that they ever came around during my concert going days...

saw Bowie many times, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Yes, Talking Heads, other favorites but not Bryan Ferry or Roxy Music.

The hand gestures, though, I've seen in video performances.

:P

"No, this is the night
When I'll see Colbert's penis
A beacon of 'Murka's freedom and art
He wags it about with the force of Jesus
Then cruelly says goodbye"

:cry:

:hug:
:rofl:

:cry:

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Writer made me go back and look at Steven Colbert's crotch!!!
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Just to see if it were staring at ME, too.
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Pssssttt.
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Don't tell Writer... but it WAS.
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With a look both repulsive and enticing...
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...of anticipatory ennui.
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I don't know!!!!! I'm not really responsible for what comes out of my fingers.
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Besides...
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...YOU LOUNGE PEOPLE AREN'T MY REAL MOMS!!!!!
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The last word "Wiedersehen" I would take to mean in that case "reunions", not "good-byes".

auf means "until"

so when they say "auf wiedersehen" they are not saying goodbye per se, but "until (we) meet again"

:hi: