Both as a standalone and as part of the DSOTS album, you can take this lyric as read. As a matter of public record, Jourgensen's drug intake was legendary even in the 1980s. By the late 90s, in his own words, he was grappling with massive addiction issues and had lost almost everything: friends, spouse, money and had nearly died more than once. "Dark Side of the Spoon" is a both funny & sad title for an album made by a musical genius who was losing the plot; and this song is a message to his fans & friends saying he knows it. It's painful to listen to so I'm glad the "Keith Richards of industrial metals" wised up and cleaned up. Well done sir.
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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its about being lost and trapped on a lonely island, till mentioned it.
English translations taken from: herzeleid.com
He waits for the midday's wind the wave comes and lies down wearily with a fan every day the old one makes the water smooth
I throw the stone for fun the water moves in circles the old one looks sadly at me and swept it smooth again
I think that the old man represents a father figure. And the boy (the person who threw the rock into the water, I'm assuming it's a child) may represent a son. The old man fanning the water may represent a father trying to keep balance or maybe trying to keep calm during hard times caused by natural things (the midday's wind) or by other people (the boy). "The old one looks sadly at me" could be about how a parent may get frustrated or disappointed at their child for doing something bad or for acting foolish. Once the old man "swept it smooth again" he maybe trying to "clean up" after his child.
Premonition sleeps like a volcano hesitating, I asked him then his head bent, it seemed he slept before he died he said
I'm not so sure what "Premonition sleeps like a volcano" could meam. But, I think the old man is passing knowledge from his generation to the next, which is something most fathers want to do with their sons.
"The water shall be your mirror only when it is smooth will you see how much fairy tale is left for you and you will plead for salvation."
The reflection in the mirror (water) could represent how one views reality. If the boy spent so much of his life dreaming and having fun (throwing the rock in the water) his view of reality may become disorted like the water, or he may be unable to cope with a reality so void of "fairy tale magic"
The fan pressed against his body his hand stiffens with rigor mortis they had to break his fingers the fan stays back in the sand
The old man's hands stiffening may represent a person not wanting to give up their way of life. (not sure) "Te fan stays back in the sand" may mean that the fan was left there as a way to remember the old man.
I call the old one every day for him to save me here I stay back in the midday's wind and I can read in the fan
Apperently the boy is much older now. "I call the old one every day for him to save me here" means tht the boy pray to his dead father for help or guidance with life. "I stay back in the midday's wind and I can read in the fan" I think this means that the boy either took his father's place fanning the water or simply remembers what the old man taught him.
I just finished listening to the audiobook of H.P. Lovecraft's "The White Ship", and it reminded me of this song. It's more of a sad story than a horror story, but still a relatively cosmic one. The message of the two stories may be quite similar. If anyone else here has read or heard it, can they make the same connection? (For the record, I do not really understand German; I have been to Herzeleid.com and have watched lyricsoframmstein's videos on You Tube, and ended up with a crash course in the language, however. I just didn't feel like posting on the English page.)
Iam German and I unterstand every word in this song, but I have no idea what's it about at all ^^.
It's about a lonely old man. Kinda sad.
English translation at herzeleid.com/en/lyrics/sehnsucht
Beautiful song :)
It's about anticipating death? When the water is smooth, you see your age in your reflection.