What? I never thought about this being about romance at all.
To me this song has always been about a very personal, individual experience and being left on one's own devices. Like being in a new, challenging situation and don't know if you'll make it and how. At first there is still help ("der Wagen") but in the end you're on your own making new experiences and finding a way.
Everything tells you to give up ("Gib dich geschlagen Und geh endlich in die Knie"), but you can't go back now and so you just keep going even though you don't know where it will take you.
"Und keine Tausend Meter draußen vor dem Tor
Erklang ein Brausen und es sang ein Männerchor"
This is how the person finally arrives somewhere, it's a kind of triumph (the choir singing) but also the destination is still mysterious (because they're "draußen vor dem Tor")
"Dann war Stille und dazwischen und davor
Setzte die Pause neue Flausen in mein Ohr"
The person instantly thinks of new adventures, showing how if you once took a risk, expanding your horizon, you will be willing to do it again and again.
What? I never thought about this being about romance at all.
To me this song has always been about a very personal, individual experience and being left on one's own devices. Like being in a new, challenging situation and don't know if you'll make it and how. At first there is still help ("der Wagen") but in the end you're on your own making new experiences and finding a way. Everything tells you to give up ("Gib dich geschlagen Und geh endlich in die Knie"), but you can't go back now and so you just keep going even though you don't know where it will take you.
"Und keine Tausend Meter draußen vor dem Tor Erklang ein Brausen und es sang ein Männerchor"
This is how the person finally arrives somewhere, it's a kind of triumph (the choir singing) but also the destination is still mysterious (because they're "draußen vor dem Tor")
"Dann war Stille und dazwischen und davor Setzte die Pause neue Flausen in mein Ohr"
The person instantly thinks of new adventures, showing how if you once took a risk, expanding your horizon, you will be willing to do it again and again.