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"
Pulled into war to serve a vision, that's supposed to last a thousand years
Part of a machine, unstoppable as merciless as tidal waves
Were they the victims of the time
Or proud parts of lager goals?
Propaganda of the Reich masterful machine
Time and again the battle rages on beyond the gates of misery
As casualties rise and millions die around them
Did they see it all?
Crazy madmen on a leash
Or young men who lost their way?
Grand illusions of the Reich
May seem real at times
Panzers on a line from the Wehrmacht's spine
Lethal grand design
What about the men executing orders?
Panzers on a line from the Wehrmacht's spine
Lethal grand design
What about the men executing orders?
Ad victoriam
Ex machina
Non sibi sed patriae
Ad victoriam
Ex machina
Non sibi sed patriae
Pulled into war to serve a vision that just didn't last a thousand years
Part of a machine though stoppable as merciless as tidal waves
Crazy madmen on a leash
Or young men who lost their way?
Grand illusions of the Reich
May seem real at times
Panzers on a line from the Wehrmacht's spine
Lethal grand design
What about the men executing orders?
Panzers on a line from the Wehrmacht's spine
Lethal grand design
What about the men?
Part of a machine, unstoppable as merciless as tidal waves
Were they the victims of the time
Or proud parts of lager goals?
Propaganda of the Reich masterful machine
Time and again the battle rages on beyond the gates of misery
As casualties rise and millions die around them
Did they see it all?
Crazy madmen on a leash
Or young men who lost their way?
Grand illusions of the Reich
May seem real at times
Panzers on a line from the Wehrmacht's spine
Lethal grand design
What about the men executing orders?
Panzers on a line from the Wehrmacht's spine
Lethal grand design
What about the men executing orders?
Ad victoriam
Ex machina
Non sibi sed patriae
Ad victoriam
Ex machina
Non sibi sed patriae
Pulled into war to serve a vision that just didn't last a thousand years
Part of a machine though stoppable as merciless as tidal waves
Crazy madmen on a leash
Or young men who lost their way?
Grand illusions of the Reich
May seem real at times
Panzers on a line from the Wehrmacht's spine
Lethal grand design
What about the men executing orders?
Panzers on a line from the Wehrmacht's spine
Lethal grand design
What about the men?
Lyrics submitted by GreG975, edited by MisterMaster, Brenzo44, Pappenheimer
Wehrmacht Lyrics as written by Joakim Broden
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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"Were they the victims of the time Or proud parts of lager goals? Propaganda of the Reich masterful machine"
Well, both. It's not like all soldiers in the Wehrmacht were nazis. If you didn't want to join the army you couldn't just say "no". If you disobeyed orders you'd get a bullet in the head.
This song is about a soldier in the Wehrmacht starting with hitlers visions and soldiers being pulled into the Wehrmacht.
"Pulled into war to serve a vision That's supposed to last a thousand years"
He sees what happens around him during war and he comes up with questions about the purpose of this war
"As casualties rise and millions die around them Did they see it all?
"What about the men executing orders?"
I wouldn't say about a single soldier, more about the young men who fought in the Wehrmacht together. It's about how the young men of Germany were, you could say brainwashed, into doing the bidding of the Nazi's and Hitler. They were told they would be building an empire that would last a thousand years, they were stronger than anyone, they could never be defeated in battle, Germans would rise above everything and everyone because it was their duty as the master race. Eventually they start getting defeated in battle, they start to realize that it was all for naught, and the young men who were only doing what they were told to do faced the same punishment as those who told them to do it("What about the men executing orders?").