Lyrics of Rammstein song “Zeit” and English translation

I can’t stop listening to this song, I have bingeing Rammstein since I have found this song last week, I was aware of Rammstein since a very long time but I didn’t give them the attention they deserve, now that Zeit was out I am hooked, I am trying to memorize the lyrics to flex my attempts to learn German:))

Thanks for sharing the lyrics and translating them, love from Jordan, Middle East.

I read the lyrics like it is a worry about growing old and realize all of a sudden your life is running out so you want to stop time but it is of course impossible.
Also that the life is short and you are not prepared it was so fast.

Beautiful, tiimeless and once again, a very deep song.

Til senses the state of his homeland, Europa and the planet as a whole. He was born under a totalitarian oligarchy and understands that there are many changes occurring that wont be for the benefit of humanity. He cannot be too literal, else the German media will jump on him again – but he is sending a message in his music. Not many will hear it but those that do, already understand our predicament.

What is being sung at the very beginning of this song. Curious

I wasn’t a big fan of their 2019 album; a lot of the songs fell flat to me. Maybe I just didn’t get the theme, but the songs felt disconnected, with only a few catchy ones, but only few that will go down in history bar Deutschland, Radio and maybe Ausländer.

This song is something else though, sounds much better and seems to have a point. I hope they do like for Liebe ist für alle da, where there was a very dominant theme throughout the album (Liebe had a very strong connection through different types of love, from romantic, to a hunter’s obsession, to BDSM and the more perturbing ones like Führe Mich). I hope this time they approach death or something like that, with this one being about the inevitability of time. They always have twisted ways of illustrating their points, and I hope they keep doing it.

I also have a few suggestions:

Warmer Körper ist bald kalt
– Warm body soon is cold
Zukunft kann man nicht beschwören
– One can’t summon the future
Duldet keinen Aufenthalt
– It doesn’t condone delay
Erschaffen und sogleich zerstört
– Created and immediately destroyed

*It = the future. The future doesn’t condone delay. It’s created and immediately destroyed, because in a moment the future becomes the past.

Bleib stehen = remain standing/ stay standing/ stand still. I think I would go for:
– Time, please stand still, stand still

Aufhören, wenns am schönsten ist.
– Stop at your peak
(Or stopping at your peak?)

Sidenote: Anyone else very worried about the future of the band here?
“When our time has come, then it’s time to go, stop(ping) at your peak, time stands still”
Noooooo!
Somewhat relieved when he continued with:

Ich bin noch nicht bereit
– I’m not ready yet

Good.
Love them!

All singers sing about when their gone, is that that Rammstein (Till) is ready to go ??? Ready to check out??

Incredible song, thanks for the additional insight.

What a belter!!! So powerful! Such intricately woven lyrics. And that chorus!!

A few of the translations above are a little too rigid. My suggestions are as follows:

Manches sollte, manches nicht
-Some things shall be, some shall not

Sterben lebend in der Tod
-We die alive in death OR (double-meaning)
-We die; alive in death

Gefangen so im Fluss der Zeit
-Trapped in the river of time

Zeit, bitte bleib stehen
-Time, please be still (literally “stay standing”, however “be still” is more fitting)

Das soll immer so weitergehen
-It shall always go on (shall instead of should gives it the sense of inevitability that time stands still for nobody)

Duldet keinen Aufenthalt – A stay is not tolerated

Aufhören wenn’s am schönsten ist –
Finished while at its most beautiful

Die Uhren bleiben stehen-
The clocks stay still

Augenblick, verweile doch
-Wait just one moment (a blink of an eye)

Ich bin noch nicht bereit
– I am not ready yet

What a song. Beautiful just like life is.