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"
Darf ich leben ohne Grenzen - nein das darfst du nicht
Lieben trotz der Konsequenzen - nein das darfst du nicht
Darf ich sein so wie ich bin - nein das darfst du nicht
Darf ich suchen nach dem Sinn - nein das darfst du nicht
Die Kälte zieht in alle Knochen und die Glieder werden schwer
sie haben mir mein Herz gebrochen, es schlägt -doch es lebt nicht mehr
Eiszeit - und wir sind verloren im Meer
Eiszeit - und das atmen fällt so schwer, oh
Eiszeit - mit dir werd' ich untergehen
Eiszeit - und nie wieder auferstehen
Darf ich meine Träume leben - nein das darfst du nicht
Meinem Feind die Hände geben - nein das darfst du nicht
Darf ich mein schwarzes Herz verschenken - nein das darfst du nicht
Darf ich für mich selber denken - nein das darfst du nicht
Die Kälte zieht in alle Knochen und die Glieder werden schwer,
sie haben mir mein Herz gebrochen, es schlägt -doch es lebt nicht mehr
Eiszeit - und wir sind verloren im Meer
Eiszeit - und das atmen fällt so schwer, oh
Eiszeit - mit dir werd' ich untergehen
Eiszeit - und nie wieder auferstehen
Schlaf ein mein Herz und komm' zur Ruh'
Schlaf ein mein Herz die Welt friert zu
Schlaf ein, schlaf' ein mein Herz
Die Kälte zieht in alle Knochen und die Glieder werden schwer,
sie haben mir mein Herz gebrochen, es schlägt -doch es lebt nicht mehr
Eiszeit - und wir sind verloren im Meer
Eiszeit - und das atmen fällt so schwer, oh
Eiszeit - mit dir werd' ich untergehen
Eiszeit - und nie wieder auferstehen
Schlaf ein mein Herz und komm zur Ruh
Schlaf ein mein Herz die Welt friert zu
Schlaf ein
Lieben trotz der Konsequenzen - nein das darfst du nicht
Darf ich sein so wie ich bin - nein das darfst du nicht
Darf ich suchen nach dem Sinn - nein das darfst du nicht
Die Kälte zieht in alle Knochen und die Glieder werden schwer
sie haben mir mein Herz gebrochen, es schlägt -doch es lebt nicht mehr
Eiszeit - und wir sind verloren im Meer
Eiszeit - und das atmen fällt so schwer, oh
Eiszeit - mit dir werd' ich untergehen
Eiszeit - und nie wieder auferstehen
Darf ich meine Träume leben - nein das darfst du nicht
Meinem Feind die Hände geben - nein das darfst du nicht
Darf ich mein schwarzes Herz verschenken - nein das darfst du nicht
Darf ich für mich selber denken - nein das darfst du nicht
Die Kälte zieht in alle Knochen und die Glieder werden schwer,
sie haben mir mein Herz gebrochen, es schlägt -doch es lebt nicht mehr
Eiszeit - und wir sind verloren im Meer
Eiszeit - und das atmen fällt so schwer, oh
Eiszeit - mit dir werd' ich untergehen
Eiszeit - und nie wieder auferstehen
Schlaf ein mein Herz und komm' zur Ruh'
Schlaf ein mein Herz die Welt friert zu
Schlaf ein, schlaf' ein mein Herz
Die Kälte zieht in alle Knochen und die Glieder werden schwer,
sie haben mir mein Herz gebrochen, es schlägt -doch es lebt nicht mehr
Eiszeit - und wir sind verloren im Meer
Eiszeit - und das atmen fällt so schwer, oh
Eiszeit - mit dir werd' ich untergehen
Eiszeit - und nie wieder auferstehen
Schlaf ein mein Herz und komm zur Ruh
Schlaf ein mein Herz die Welt friert zu
Schlaf ein
Lyrics submitted by The_howling
Eiszeit Lyrics as written by Matthias Barwig Henning Verlage
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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