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| Ich brauche Zeit | I need time |
| Kein Heroin kein Alkohol kein Nikotin | No heroin nor alcohol nor nicotine |
| Brauch keine Hilfe | I don’t need help |
| Kein Koffein | Nor caffeine |
| Doch Dynamit und Terpentin | But I do need dynamite and turpentine |
| Ich brauche für Gasolin | I need oil for gasoline [2] |
| Explosiv wie Kerosin | Explosive like kerosene |
| Mit viel Oktan und frei von Blei | With lots of octane and free of lead |
| Einen Kraftstoff wie | A fuel like |
| Benzin | Petrol |
| Brauch keinen Freund | I don’t need a friend |
| Kein Kokain | Nor cocaine |
| Brauch weder Arzt noch Medizin | I need neither a doctor nor medicine |
| Brauch keine Frau nur Vaselin | I don’t need a woman, just Vaseline |
| Etwas Nitroglyzerin | Some nitroglycerine |
| Ich brauche Geld für Gasolin | I need money for gasoline |
| Explosiv wie Kerosin | Explosive like kerosene |
| Mit viel Oktan und frei von Blei | With lots of octane and free of lead |
| Einen Kraftstoff wie | A fuel like |
| Benzin | Petrol |
| Gib mir Benzin | Give me petrol |
| Es fliesst durch meine Venen | It flows through my veins |
| Es schläft in meinen Tränen | It sleeps in my tears |
| Es läuft mir aus den Ohren | It leaks from my ears |
| Herz und Nieren sind Motoren | Heart and kidneys are motors |
| Benzin | Petrol |
| Willst du dich von etwas trennen | If you want to part with something |
| dann musst du es verbrennen | then you have to incinerate it |
| Willst du es nie wieder sehen | If you never want to see it again |
| lass es schwimmen in Benzin | let it swim in petrol |
| Benzin | Petrol |
| Ich brauch Benzin | I need petrol |
| Benzin | Petrol |
| Gib mir Benzin | Give me petrol |
“Benzin” (The German word for Petrol, or Gasoline) was the first song to be introduced from Rosenrot. Rammstein first played “Benzin” live at Berlin’s Wuhlheide Park in June 2005. Theatrical flames shot twenty meters into the air during the live performance. Later, the song was also played at several other concerts, one of them at Nîmes, which is included on the band’s new live DVD Völkerball. It is the only song to have been played live to date.
Benzin can be interpreted as a political reference to the high gas prices being experienced in many countries around the world (Ich brauche Geld für Gasolin/I need money for gasoline). “Gasolin” is not actually a German word, but an English word made German. There was, however, a German chain of gas stations called “Gasolin.”
Also, bassist Oliver Riedel briefly discussed the song on Rosenrot with Kerrang!, a music magazine published in the United Kingdom, where he said “We have so much fire in our shows that we wondered if we could have some lyrics about petrol, because it’s been responsible for our success outside of Germany. It’s basically our ode to pyromania.”
The Music video depicts the majority of the band as bored firefighters who receive a call and drive an oversized firetruck, destroying everything in their path to reach one survivor – Christian Lorenz – who they totally fail to save.
Who’s this Christian Lorenz? All I saw was Flake.
Are you kidding? Christian Lorenz is the real name of Flake.
Flake is the only name I accept! lol
I think the name is an intertextual teference – gasoline
he don’t need drugs, medication neither a woman or a friend, gasoline run in his veins, no matter what it is as long as it burns, and Vaseline smooth the pain. If you wanna be part of something with him incinerate it. Gasoline is what he needs cause he get off on burning things, total destruction, pyromania is a addiction, a sickness that brings pleasure and death.
“I don’t need a woman, just Vaseline” lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwSR0kQr5B8 music is from 2002
I am not that fussed about this song, to be honest. It is cool. I absolutely LOVE the video. Being a firefighter myself, I just love seeing most of the band as firefighters. Extremely reckless ones, yes, but firefighters nonetheless. It warms my heart.
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I think he meant the only song from the Rosenrot album…
I’m curious about your comment that this is the only song to have been played live to date, are you saying that they mime at their concerts?
To me this song is about America’s addiction with gasoline and oil no matter what anyone says. In the video America is the firetruck. It shows how much destruction we cause in order to help ourselves. At least thats what I got out of it.
South Park should do a video, where they say, “Oh my God, they killed Flake! You Bastards!!!”
Dude kraftstoff means fuel. Benzin is the German word for petrol
Lol dude Benzin didn’t mean Petrol
Mean Fuel so learn more about that k mr. Traduces us Man
Actually Benzin does mean petrol. I’d trust the actual band and my own german knowledge over a random internet person
“…Petrol”.
I think it means Gasoline.
Also, Gasoline sounds more like Benzin, so in this song/translation whether you’re Auzzie, Canadian, American, or British, Gasoline works better.
BTW, the Ramstein airbase that they’re named after is American. Where great amounts of Kerosene, and Gasoline are used, coincidence? I think not.
Petrol is Gasoline you moron
nice video! I like Richard’s driving style. The killed thousands of people just to get to Flake and fail to save him :)).
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Benzin can be interpreted as a song about pyromania. And Gasolin is a only a good rime for Terpentin and Kerosin…
nice song the video is AwEsOmE and richards driving *chukle*
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