Einsturzende Neubauten feat. Meret Becker - Stella maris

I absolutely love this. It's a gorgeous, controlled performance. One where the restraint creates a tension like buttons about to pop off a tight suitjacket.

The rise of their voices together is amazing.

I'll have to find the English translation of lyrics and post it here if I find it. I've listened to this song over and over today.

I want more of Meret Becker on YouTube and Fast FM. I just found out Becker married one of the guys from this band, Alexander Hacke.

I found the lyrics! At least one translation from the German. Wow. These people can write. Here it is...I also included an exerpt about the meaning of "Stella Maris" from something I found online, at the very bottom:

English translation of Stella Maris by Einstürzende Neubauten

I dream I'll meet you deep deep down
The deepest point on Earth, Mariana Trench, ocean bottom
Between Nanga Parbat, K2 and Everest
The crest of the world, there you'll be my banquet guest
Where nothing more can impede my vision
When you come I'll see you coming from the world's margin
Here there's nothing of interest
The ruins of Atlantis just
But of you not a trace
I don't think you're coming anymore

We missed eachother in our dreams

You dream me, I you
Don't worry, I won't wake you
Before you wake up yourself

Across the ice towards the North Pole is where I'll expect you
Will be standing on the axis
From Tierra del Fuego in hard dream labour to the pole
There everything will revolve just around us
The Pole Star directly above me
This is the pole I'll wait here
Only I cannot see you coming from anywhere for miles around
I'm waiting at the wrong pole

We missed eachother in our dreams

You dream me, I you
Don't worry, I won't wake you
Before you wake up yourself

Please, please don't wake me
Only as long as I dream do you exist...

Enlist in slumber on a ship
Course: Eldorado, Punt, that's your home
Wait on the coast, look on the horizon
Until I at last see your sails there
But the captain is always drunk
And mostly below deck
I can't steer this ship in my wildest dreams
On a rift it springs a leak
In the North Sea it then sunk
An iceberg drives me back

I think I'll be waiting for long
Punt stays undiscovered

We missed eachother in our dreams

You dream me, I you
Don't worry, I won't wake you
Before you wake up yourself
You dream me, I you
Don't worry, I won't wake you
Before you wake up yourself
Collared in a doze I'll grab you
And pull you towards me
For you dream me, I you
I dream you, you me
We dream eachother awake.

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from http://everything2.com/title/stella%2520maris

(covering meaning of Stella Maris from Virgin Mary to a monastery in Israel to my favorite meaning...posted below)

It should also be noted that the use of "Stella Maris" to refer to the Virgin Mary may be rooted in the legend (and perhaps fact) that after Jesus' death, Virgin Mary, Joseph of Arimathea, and Mary Magdalene sailed to the south of France. Thus she was the star that came from the sea.
For what it's worth, some people think this legend to be connected to the origin of the French Merovingian kings and may point to their direct descent from Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
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A link to a different video, a live performance of Stella Maris which is really spectacular, by Blixa and Meret: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTxoYzqy8lE&NR=1. (and check out her dress! It's fantastic on her...um, and I may have a thing for Blixa now).