Learn German with Rammstein - Zeit Lyrics Translation & Song Meaning Explained | Daveinitely

Many thanks for the explanation, priceless

I also love how the song ends with the same note repeating till the end of the song, slowly getting quieter while a choir sets in.
The played note for me is what happens and it wont stop happening while the choir is ressembling your own passing. While you pass the notes get quiter but they never stop. You just cant hear them as clear as you pass away.
Or it resembles your heartbeat but in a more fitting way to the music

Thank you for explaining so well what these lyrics mean.

It could be their more powerfull song with some adjustment and a better video. it reminds me to ohne dich, but the video is much worse, the simplicity of ohne dich video made it so incredible, zeit video is overdone, too much stuff that it doesn't need. beautiful lyrics on both songs, I prefer zeit lyrics even more

The lyrics with the sea remind me of the Myth of the river Acheron. That river was believed to be leading to the underworld. The river I mentioned is located in the region of Epirus, Greece.

Boah alter, das gelbe Milchglas hinten... Saarbrücken 1972?

Cia run there show live and in video red laser scanned my eyes I waited 24 hrs. And called my dad he was lifted by white light that night meshugah bleed 3 arms is ancient aliens prosthetic 3rd arm

Nice video. Till reminds me of Nietzsche's Ewige Wiederkunft where his challenge (at least my interpretation of his writings) is to live your best life because you will live it again forever. It is but a fleeting moment in the scheme of things, but it will happen again and again, so live up to that or be crushed by the notion of reliving your regrets eternally.

I saw this and your "adieu" video. You earned a subscriber. Great work.

This is a great video that really helped to aid my comprehension of the lyrics. Superb analysis of the song!

Rammstein is my absolute favorite band. Thank you so much for your translation and breakdown. As a paramedic for 15 years, I saw a lot of life and death. I didn’t always know how to process what I saw. This song was so profound and each time I watched the video it’s brought out different emotions. Just an incredible song that transcends all barriers and speaks to us all at our most basic humanity.

Thanks to your videos, I have come to appreciate more and more Rammstein songs. I saw them in Chicago.... What a fantastic show and performance!!! This song was in their setlist... a truly masterpiece! Danke my friend :)

Sehr ,sehr guter,ausgezeichneter Vortrag... finde ich....Ein wenig wundert mich trotzdem das Goethe verschwiegen wird,wie überall in den Kommentaren..die tolle Lyrik von Zeit ist für mich Faust III..sagst Du zum Augenblick verweile...

Thanks!

Thank you for sharing your perspective and enabling us to learn German as well! I think this song is a masterpiece and Lindemann (and team) have outdone themselves and in my book this is Rammstein's best song since it deals with our existence as Time marches on indifferent to what we have to say or experience. All of us will have to cross that river one day. in the end and who knows we may be just crossing into another dimension of a multiverse universe ( so some of us may be hoping, visiting our loved ones again - but we will never know). As we cross into that other dimension, I hope there will great bands just like Rammstein and people like you that make our world a better and more meaningful existence..... Thank you.

Ageee. Masterpiece

Beim scrollen ist das Video mir zufällig unter die Augen gekommen und zum Glück habe ich deinen Kanal etdecket. Die Kombination von Musik und Lernen ist maßgeblich super. Ich selbst studiere Germanistik und interessiere mich für Sprachen und insbesondere die deutsche Sprache und Kultur deshalb finde ich deinen Inhalt total mein Ding. Ich habe doch eine Bitte an Dich. Es wäre echt gut, wenn die Interpretation auf Deutsch wäre.
Vielen Dank ❤️

This song is absolutely brilliant! Thanks for this great video, it makes it even more profound. I get very emotional every time I hear it.

Can "Fluss der Zeit" mean the "flux of time" rather than the "River of time"? Or is it written different.

In my opinion, beyond any doubts, Zeit is Till's lyrical masterpiece!! It is high grade poetry (Hoch Poesie (?))! I really admire Till's versatility. Producing the lyrics of a Te Quiero Puta and those of Zeit.. Er ist (un Rammsteind sind) unglablich!! ❤️

I have a basic understanding of the German language. One remarkable aspect of this song is that I could get its meaning without much translation especially when paired with the video. And after watching this video, it comes across a brilliant inspired writing that captures the Zeitgeist (pun intended) of the last 2 years when so many have been taken by the pandemic. Perhaps we have taken things too much for granted.

Or is this a message from rammstain that their carer is almost over and it is like farewell song

This song came out of nowhere as you said. To me for example it hit very close to home, as I lost my mom 8 month ago. Now being alles allein, ganz allein.
Although being mentally tough to hear, it's also what I need to hear.

An excellent analysis. God put time in place for us because our minds could not handle it all at once and for those beautiful moments in life to remember.

I absolutely love Rammstein and their music. Til is a genius creating his choice of words lyrics and thoughts as he conveys them. Thanks for the work on your channel I really appreciate and enjoy watching and learning.

Many refer to the dark figures as the reaper(s). I don't find them scary and since there are three and not just one I connect them to the norse norns. The weavers, the measurers and the cutters of the threads of life. (Or simply past, present and future personified.)

Anyway, great breakdown of the lyrcs and not just the plain "wow - reaction" we get everywhere. :)

I found this looking for good translations of Rammstein's song as it has to be one of my favourites, and i have to say you're doing an amazing job both at translating the lyrics and going into a bunch of details. Your channel is the kind of content that will help me get my non-german friends to relate to how great some of the german songs i know are, i don't remember if i ever subbed to someone after just one video but this is definitely the time to do so.

I expect full album reaction/review video with listen-along

Love your vlogs…. Need more help with german sentence stucture. Know any resources to help me learn quicker. I can kind of read der hund und die katze fabel. Easier to read than to speak. Im using duolingo now and listening to plenty of rammstein of course. Thanks

Tremendous! Enjoying your content immensely!👍

Went only for simply the lyrics, and got q great video with aqesome explanation. Great job!

That song BY FAR is their best song I’ve heard from them, don’t want to make it depressing but I had a friend take his own life on March 2nd and 10 days later that song came out and it does make me tear up as I passionately love the song and the lyrics

Thank you for guiding me to a perspective on the lyrics and the meaning of the language. My deepest respect to you and hope you're doing well 🙂

Time moves faster the older you get if you don't take specific actions to deliberately pay attention to everything. This is similar to the reason that a lot of drugs make time seem to move more slowly. Basically, the more information your brain has to process/ how closely you're paying attention to details/ how novel your environment and activities are, the more slowly things seem to move. So if you're a child experiencing everything for the first time, you pay attention to everything. If you're old, you just jumble most perceptions into per-constructed categories and tend to gloss over most environmental data. There is also some effect related specifically to experiencing time as a proportion of all time you've already experienced, but that's more nuanced, complicated, and as-yet not fully explained.

I cant find the answer one the internet. What are the words being sung before Till starts singing?

I often think about life and this song is just so much in line with my thoughts.Beautiful.I can't get enough of Till's voice.Time to learn another song.

I choked just watching this video. Let alone the music video and the song

I'm within the age range of the Rammstein guys, to me I think and feel that as you (significantly) age (50+) you start thinking about this sort of reality more. Time seems to go so much faster.
When you were a kid a year seemed SO long. Now, seasons fly by so fast.
With the pandemic many of us may have lost a lot of people that we didn't intend/expect to lose under "normal" circumstance.
With such happenings being all too real it forces you to keep these thoughts in the foreground where we usually kept them in the background.

German with VlogDave = das fest ist gut!

While we’re on the subject of explanations: what did Mike Skinner, Kate Nash, Lykke Li, Tame Impala, the Killers, and Florence + the Machine do to Kraftklub?

“Aufhoren wenn es am schonsten ist” is in my opinion pointing out how useless our wise advices are in the face of the death, when you could say “oh damn why did I not enjoy this to the fukkest and now it is gone forever”

I do not think the lyrics show us how to live good life by cherishing moments (this is your own interpretation), it only points out how we are swallowed by the time and by the death inevitabely in the end

Sand also might be a parallel to the biblical “you are dust and you will become dust”

Keine Rast nur vorwarts streben could also mean that we are not able to stop time

Till really got me in the feels with this one. Prost!

I agree that this song is a masterpiece both lyrically, musically and visually. Thank you for your insights.

I am German. However, this song or video needs no comments or translations.

Absolutely love this song!!! As a nurse who works in a home for the elderly the lyrics touched me ver very deeply!! Yes I agree Till's lyrics are the best in this song!! Just everything about this song is perfect! Thank you for this video😘