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. :)
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. :)