Sie sagen zu mir schließ auf diese Tür die Neugier wird zum Schrei was wohl dahinter sei hinter dieser Tür steht ein Klavier die Tasten sind staubig die Saiten sind verstimmt hinter dieser Tür sitzt sie am Klavier doch sie spielt nicht mehr ach das ist so lang her Dort am Klavier lauschte ich ihr und wenn ihr Spiel begann hielt ich den Atem an Sie sagte zu mir ich bleib immer bei dir doch es hatte nur den Schein sie spielte für mich allein ich goss ihr Blut ins Feuer meiner Wut ich verschloss die Tür man fragte nach ihr Dort am Klavier lauschte ich ihr und wenn ihr Spiel begann hielt ich den Atem an Dort am Klavier stand ich bei ihr es hatte den Schein sie spielte für mich allein Geöffnet ist die Tür ei wie sie schreien ich höre die Mutter flehen der Vater schlägt auf mich ein man löst sie vom Klavier und niemand glaubt mir hier das ich todkrank von Kummer und Gestank Dort am Klavier lauschte ich ihr und wenn ihr Spiel begann hielt ich den Atem an Dort am Klavier lauschte sie mir und als mein Spiel begann hielt sie den Atem an |
They say to me unlock this door the curiosity becomes a scream what certainly could be behind it behind this door stands a piano the keys are dusty the strings are out of tune behind this door she sits at the piano but she doesn't play anymore oh, that was so long ago There, at the piano I listened to her and when her playing began I held my breath She said to me I'll always stay with you but it only seemed that she played for me alone I poured her blood into the fire of my rage I locked the door they asked for her There, at the piano I listened to her and when her playing began I held my breath There, at the piano I stood beside her it seemed she played for me alone The door is open oh, how they scream I hear the mother pleading the father is beating me they take her from the piano and no one believes me here that I am deathly ill from sorrow and the stench There, at the piano I listened to her and when her playing began I held my breath There, at the piano she listened to me and when my playing began she held her breath |
One of Rammstein’s few slow songs, Klavier is about a man who loved the way his girlfriend played the piano so much he locked her away in the attic. One day her parents and the police make the man open the door and they see their beautiful daughter tied to the piano dead.
Where in the world are you getting the idea that there’s an attic, police, or tying up? That’s in no way in the lyrics. Yes, this guy gets jealous and presumably kills her and lives with her corpse, but the rest of the details are completely imagined.
I do agree that he kills his girlfriend, and it is by means of strangulation. When looking at the Live aus Berlin performance of this song, when Till sings “und als mein Spiel begann hielt sie den Atem an”, he wraps his hand around his throath as to animate that “mein Spiel” means wrapping his hand around her throath. “hielt sie den Atem an” refers to her not being able to breath due to his hand around her throath.
As you said, for the rest, there is no evidence. I can may be see the police accompanying the parents due to the they referal, but no one else is specifically named outside the mother and father, so the police is pure speculation.
I agree with RzK.
“Es hatte nur den Schein” dass sie für mich allein spielte.
It only *seemed* that she was playing for me alone.
I may be way out, buf I think this song is about sex. Her “playing” represents her sexuality. She played her piano for someone else (cheated) And he kills her out of rage. And in the last verse, when he’s playing the “piano” he is having sex with her and she holds her breath because she is already dead.
This song is so beutifull<3 rammstein 4ever:D
Oh my god..such a gorgeous song. And the lyrics… <33. I had never bothered to listen to this song until someone recommended it to me (I love Rammstein completely), but this is great. 😀
This song sounds to me that he was maybe watching her from afar and couldnt hold his feelings bak and wanted her but couldnt have her so he took her life instead…
I’m not sure why this came to mind, but the “and no one believes me HERE” line makes me think that the speaker is presently in an insane asylum, or perhaps prison. (The stink mentioned in the following line would be present in either of these places as well as the attic a dead girl had been kept in.)
I love the word play;
His admiration:
“and when her playing began
I held my breath”
and her end:
“and when my playing began
she held her breath”
He doesn’t really provide any proof that she cheated on him. If anything she loved him. I think he wanted to make it so that he was the only one that could ever hear her music. And maybe he was a little crazed.
[Pwnage song ^^]
Sie sagen zu mir
schliess auf diese Tür
die Neugier wird zum Schrei
was wohl dahinter sei
hinter dieser Tür
steht ein Klavier
die Tasten sind staubig
die Saiten sind verstimmt
hinter dieser Tür
sitzt sie am Klavier
doch sie spielt nicht mehr
ach das ist so lang her
Lol, they say it’s so beautiful but it’s about him killing his girlfriend? None the less, this song is awesome.
“Sie sagte zu mir ich bleib immer bei dir doch es hatte nur den Schein sie spielte für mich allein…”
It sounds to me like the girlfriend said they’d be together forever, but then wasn’t faithful to him. That could explain why he “poured her blood into the fire of [his] rage.”
Really beautiful..
What do you think he is really talking about
This song is just so beautiful, I cannot even describe it…