Rammstein returned today (March 10th) with a glorious new song called "Zeit." The Deutschlandic pyromaniacs took a decade between albums to finally release their last LP, 2019's untitled offering, and one of our most anticipated albums of the year is its impending follow-up — which they previously previewed last year for an astronaut on the International Space Station. Now that "Zeit" is out for all of us on earth to hear, it'd be helpful for those of us who don't speak German to understand what it is they're saying. Thankfully, one swift translator has already uploaded all of the English lyrics to Genius.com, and you can read them all below while you listen to the song — which tackles themes of transience, mortality and fleeting happiness — above.
[Intro]
Some things should be, some shouldn't
We see, but we are blind
We throw shadows without light
[Verse 1]
After us there will be a "prior"
Youth will turn into hardship
We keep dying until we live
We die alive to death
We are drifting towards the end
No rest, only striving forward
Infinity waves on the shore
Caught in the flow of time
[Chorus]
Please stand still, stand still
Time
It should always go on like this
[Verse 2]
Warm body will soon turn cold
Future can't be conjured
Do not tolerate any stay
Create and immeaditely destroy
I'm lying here in your arms
Oh, could it just be forever!
But time knows no mercy
Already, the moment is over
[Chorus]
Time
Please stand still, stand still
Time
It should always go on like this
Time
It's so nice, so nice
Everybody knows
The perfect moment
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
When our time has come, it's time to go
Stop when it's most beautiful, the clocks stand still
The moment is so perfect, but time keeps ticking
Moment, please stay, I'm not ready yet
[Chorus]
Time
Please stand still, stand still
Time
It should always go on like this
Time
It's so nice, so nice
Everybody knows
The perfect moment
