Her existence is volatile
Almost all men1 are merely guests to her
They feel only half at home with her
She swallows them up, and she spits them out
What she awakens in me is indecent
I don’t have a clean slate
I do what she demands with pleasure
I always hope that she will thank me
Quickly familiar
and ours
completely2
No way back,
You’ll become a part
of inventory
Souvenir, Souvenir
A little piece of you will stay with us
Souvenir, Souvenir
We’ll incorporate it into the collection
Often it happens involuntarily
It is more than right and proper
You deserve it, and yet I can
Never satisfy her craving!
Souvenir, Souvenir.
Everyone would like to lie with her
Yet none want to stay with her forever
Only I am here and I am eternally faithful
With me alone, does she show no reservations
I am always mercilessly discreet
And very eager to show her my worth
I listen to what she whispers in my ears...
She dispatches me, I provide her what she needs!
Whoever was with us
Belongs to us through
hair and skin3
Never alone
Stowed away in heart and in
shrine
Souvenir, Souvenir
A little piece of you will stay with us
Souvenir, Souvenir
We’ll incorporate it into the collection
Often it happens involuntarily
It is more than right and proper
You deserve it, and yet I can
Never satisfy her craving!
Souvenir, Souvenir.
Souvenir, Souvenir.
Souvenir, Souvenir.Aaah.
Souvenir, Souvenir.Aaah.
Souvenir, Souvenir.Aaah.
Souvenir, Souvenir.Aaah.
Souvenir, Souvenir
A little piece of you will stay with us
Souvenir, Souvenir
We’ll incorporate it into the collection
Often it happens involuntarily
It is more than right and proper
You deserve it, and yet I can
Never satisfy her craving!
Souvenir, Souvenir.Aaah.
Souvenir, Souvenir.Aaah.
Souvenir, Souvenir.
1. or 'people' but I chose to translate as 'men' because the lyrical I seems to be comparing himself to other men in a romantic context2. idiom used here to mean entirely/completely, "with skin and hair".3. at first glance this appears to be a second use of an idiom, but the first time while it followed the typical format of 'with skin and hair' and would easily be assumed to mean 'completely', this time it says 'through hair and skin' which leads one to take it literally. Music videos by ASP reinforce this interpretation.