Deutschland Lyrics

Lyric discussion by EduardoSilva 

Cover art for Deutschland lyrics by Rammstein

So much to say about this one...

Yes, it contains the texts and titles of other songs of Rammstein, like "Du hast" und "Mein Herz Brennt". It is a bif of a recapitulaiton of a mature band.

But I wanted to concentrate on "so jung, und doch so alt" : Germany is "old and young" in many senses. One of them is the "reunification" (1991), or the re-foundation of the Republic 1949. But even if we take the oldest possible date regarding legal aspects, it would be just 1870 with the Wilhelm Empire. Before that, there was no legal "Germany". And still, somehow, this Germany is heir (partially, disputable) of much older constructs like the "Holy Roman German Empire", the Carolingian Empire, and the group of nations collectively called "Germans" by the Romans.

No other European nation has such wildly different names in other tongues. In English the old "germans" are taken, while French take the old tribe of the "all men" or "Allamanen" (Allemagne), the Germans take the "Tiutsch" language to make their "Deutsch" and for the Russians are the foreigners from the East who "could not speak" (ni-mietsky).

My Interpretation