Steh auf, wenn du am Boden bist
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"Steh auf, wenn du am Boden bist" (Stand up, when you're on the floor) is a song by Die Toten Hosen
. It's the third single and the thirteenth track from the album Auswärtsspiel
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Campino has stated that the reason behind this song is that he had a line like "Walk on with hope in your heart
" in his head and it didn't seem weird in English
and what he wanted was to create something similar.http://www.dietotenhosen.de/veroeffentlichungen_discographie_stehauf.php
An English version, titled "Stand Up", was recorded for the soundtrack of Land of Plenty.
The video is black-and-white and shows the band performing the song, which is interspersed with clips of depressed people, who start to smile
as the song is nearing the end.
Die Toten Hosen
Die Toten Hosen is a German punk band from Düsseldorf. They have enjoyed decades-long mass appeal in Germany.The band's name literally means "The Dead Pants" in English, although the phrase "tote Hose" is a German expression meaning "nothing going on" or "boring"...
. It's the third single and the thirteenth track from the album Auswärtsspiel
Auswärtsspiel
Auswärtsspiel is the ninth studio album by the German punk band Die Toten Hosen. This is one of the favourite albums for the band. The album is much more personal than previous albums...
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Campino has stated that the reason behind this song is that he had a line like "Walk on with hope in your heart
You'll Never Walk Alone (song)
"You'll Never Walk Alone" is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel.In the musical, in the second act, Nettie Fowler, the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan, sings "You'll Never Walk Alone" to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband, Billy Bigelow, the...
" in his head and it didn't seem weird in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and what he wanted was to create something similar.http://www.dietotenhosen.de/veroeffentlichungen_discographie_stehauf.php
An English version, titled "Stand Up", was recorded for the soundtrack of Land of Plenty.
Music video
The music video was directed by Olaf Heine.The video is black-and-white and shows the band performing the song, which is interspersed with clips of depressed people, who start to smile
Smile
A smile is a facial expression formed by flexing the muscles near both ends of the mouth. The smile can also be found around the eyes . Among humans, it is an expression denoting pleasure, joy, happiness, or amusement, but can also be an involuntary expression of anxiety, in which case it is known...
as the song is nearing the end.
Track listing
- "Steh auf, wenn du am Boden bist" (von Holst/Frege) − 3:51
- "Leben im Bildausschnitt" (Life in a picture detail) (Meurer/Frege) – 3:05
- "Dankbar - Live" (Grateful) (Breitkopf, von Holst/Frege) − 2:46
- "Call of the Wild - Live" (Breitkopf/Frege, T.V. Smith) − 3:11