About the band: Die Toten Hosen (literally "The Dead Trousers", figuratively "dead boring" or "impotents") is a German punk rock band formed in 1982. They are the one of the most successful German bands of recent decades. They released 17 studio albums, mainly sung in German. Die Toten Hosen currently have two songs in my list of about 200 best pop/rock songs of all time.
About the song: Nur zu Besuch (Just visiting) from the 2002 album Auswärtsspiel is a beautiful rock ballad, and being able to understand the lyrics is quite essential. Singer Campino describes the visit to the grave of a loved one (although it was inspired by the death of his mother, any other loved one can be substituted) in a perfect understated way. It is a song that can literally make me cry. Run time 4:28.
