Rammstein premiered their new song "Radio" — the second single off their highly anticipated new album — and its retro, black-and-white music video yesterday (April 25th) by projecting it on the side of a building in Berlin in front of a live audience. Reporting on the screening, DW noted, "This year is ... the 30 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, thus the single ... seems to refer to a time when radio signals were able to traverse the divide — and bring banned rock music to the East." The lyrics confirm this theory, harking to a time when "every body of song was forbidden, so dangerous foreign notes" and speaking to the power of music to unite Germans separated by the wall: "No borders, no fences." As social commentary on a major moment in the history of Rammstein's homeland, the lyrics also thematically link "Radio" to lead single "Deutschland." Read the song's full lyrics as translated into English by Genius below.
"Radio" lyrics in English:
[Verse 1]
We were not allowed to belong
See, talk or hear nothing
But every night for an hour or two
Am I gone from this world
Every night a bit happy
My ear very close to the world receiver
[Refrain]
Radio, my radio
I let myself suck into the ether
My ears become eyes
Radio, my radio
So I hear what I do not see
Silence secretly wanderlust
[Verse 2]
We were not allowed to belong
See, talk or disturb nothing
Every body of song was forbidden
So dangerous foreign notes
But every night a little happy
My ear very close to the world receiver
[Refrain]
Radio, my radio
I let myself suck into the ether
My ears become eyes
Radio, my radio (my radio)
So I hear what I do not see
Silence secretly wanderlust
[Bridge]
Every night I secretly climbed
On the back of the music
Put the ears to the wings
Sing quietly into the hands
Every night and again I fly
Just away with the music
Float through bright rooms
No borders, no fences
[Interlude]
Radio, radio
Radio, radio
[Refrain]
Radio, my radio (my radio)
I let myself suck into the ether
My ears become eyes
Radio, my radio (my radio)
So I hear what I do not see
Silence secretly wanderlust
