This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
A girl saw a little rose
It bloomed there in bright heights
She asked her sweetheart
if he could fetch it for her
She wants it and that's fine
So it was and so it will always be
She wants it and that's the custom
Whatever she wants she gets
Deep wells must be dug
if you want clear water
Rose-red, oh Rose-red
Deep waters don't run still
The boy climbs the mountain in torment
He doesn't really care about the view
Only the little rose is on his mind
He brings it to his sweetheart
She wants it and that's fine
So it was and so it will always be
She wants it and that's the custom
Whatever she wants she gets
Deep wells must be dug
if you want clear water
Rose-red, oh Rose-red
Deep waters don't run still
At his boots, a stone breaks
Doesn't want to be on the cliff anymore
And a scream lets everyone know
Both are falling to the ground
She wants it and that's fine
So it was and so it will always be
She wants it and that's the custom
Whatever she wants she gets
Deep wells must be dug
if you want clear water
Rose-red, oh Rose-red
Deep waters don't run still
It bloomed there in bright heights
She asked her sweetheart
if he could fetch it for her
She wants it and that's fine
So it was and so it will always be
She wants it and that's the custom
Whatever she wants she gets
Deep wells must be dug
if you want clear water
Rose-red, oh Rose-red
Deep waters don't run still
The boy climbs the mountain in torment
He doesn't really care about the view
Only the little rose is on his mind
He brings it to his sweetheart
She wants it and that's fine
So it was and so it will always be
She wants it and that's the custom
Whatever she wants she gets
Deep wells must be dug
if you want clear water
Rose-red, oh Rose-red
Deep waters don't run still
At his boots, a stone breaks
Doesn't want to be on the cliff anymore
And a scream lets everyone know
Both are falling to the ground
She wants it and that's fine
So it was and so it will always be
She wants it and that's the custom
Whatever she wants she gets
Deep wells must be dug
if you want clear water
Rose-red, oh Rose-red
Deep waters don't run still
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I actually think the video makes perfect sense symbollically. Til was seduced by the girl to kill her family in the video, the girl knowing full well that he would be killed for doing so. She sent him on a suicide mission so she could get something that she wanted. Which is what happens in the song. A girl sends a boy up a mountain to get a rose, and a rock slipped and he fell to his death, just for something as trivial as a rose. In both cases the guy was just trying to please a girl. The song is about how blind some people can get when they fall in love, and it can actually lead to their demise.
this lyric if you base it on the music vid, sort of doesn't make sense. cept' for the priest getting seducted by that one girl. iam guessing its talking about how boys do all these stuff or buy for those girls that want/want (them to do) this or that because the guy really likes her and crap..
yeah i agree i mean i havn't seen the vid yet but it show how us guys will do anything for a girl if we like them enough to be there slaves or pupets so and also the cuors or how eva it spelled (Deep wells must be dug if you want clear water) i think this mean deep relationships must dug for a clear trust
If it adds any meaning to the whole thing, venturing high into the alps to fetch a flower for a lover was a very common thing in German tradition. Though it wasn't a rose, the flower they always went to retrieve was one called the Edelweiss, a beautiful white flower that grows only very high in the mountains. Prized for its rarity and the fact that even after being picked it holds its beautiful white color for years, many young men would dangerously venture high into the alps sometimes getting killed chasing this flower. Look it up, interesting part of German tradition. Hope this helped the whole thing make a little more sense.
It's sort of a fairy-tale story of the prince questing for his lady love, but of course in the fairy tales they come through all their troubles. In real life and Rammstein songs, nothing goes so smoothly.
The video fits well, but adds to it, as any good video should. It seems the girl had another man in mind -- maybe her parents didn't approve of the match -- so she came up with a plan to work things out to her benefit. Fairly straight-forward in that way. But the band being priests, the other band members are watching what is happening, and obviously worried about it, but they don't intervene when they could have probably stopped the relationship (of course, that would have saved Till, but I'll bet the girl would have found another patsy...). Instead, they go on with normal life, and just leave after the ugly business is concluded.
With the video, I think it is about people giving up everything they have known and believed in throughout their lives for the promise of something they think they want now. It's like a man (or woman) who has been married for some time, and then has an affair. Or someone who has a good job, and then does something really stupid to screw it up. You've worked to build something over your whole life, but in a moment, you can destroy it over a stupid whim, a passing desire.
In the song, it is the girl giving up her love over a stupid trinket, the rose, or it can be the man blindly giving in to something he shouldn't have bothered with, because of love, or lust, or whatever.
And the well -- work hard, and keep working on what you have been working for. If you keep changing where you dig, you'll never get the deep well. Or something like that. :P Fits with the relationship thing, also it's just nice and poetic, and a play on the common phrase that "still waters run deep," which normally means that someone quiet may have hidden depths to them. Since it is the opposite (deep waters don't run still), perhaps it's a comment that things that have depth and meaning aren't necessarily going to be easy and smooth sailing...
Ahhh, it's poetry, and a beautiful song, with a nice, unhappy ending. :)
I'm not particularly happy with this translation... it gets across the message but its not literal.. more poetic.. (plus its taklen from hezeleid.com).. e.g. 'if he could fetch it for her' but the lyrics actually translate to something like 'if he can climb (for her.. not sure if this is meant to be in here)' but my german isnt briliant so i cant really say much ;)
I would rather have a poetic translation that gets the image across than a literal one since the literal one might not really make sense. But that's just me anyway.
What boys will do for girls.
In the musoc video to me it looks like it's mostly about getting what you can and leaving. The girls asks for the rose and waits for it paitently without moving a sweat. She has everything she desires without moving a sweat, in fact i think the focus is more on how people use pawns to get what they want, however if it's not moral they blame the pawn to escape judjment and stay on the good side.