This song is based on a poem by J.W.Goethe. In 1782, of course, there were still no airplanes. Here is the old original: Erlkönig - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (english translation): ho's riding so late where winds blow wild It is the father grasping his child; He holds the boy embraced in his arm, He clasps him snugly, he keeps him warm. "My son, why cover your face in such fear?" "You see the elf-king, father? He's near! The king of the elves with crown and train!" "My son, the mist is on the plain." 'Sweet lad, o come and join me, do! Such pretty games I will play with you; On the shore gay flowers their color unfold, My mother has many garments of gold.' "My father, my father, and can you not hear The promise the elf-king breathes in my ear?" "Be calm, stay calm, my child, lie low: In withered leaves the night-winds blow." 'Will you, sweet lad, come along with me? My daughters shall care for you tenderly; In the night my daughters their revelry keep, They'll rock you and dance you and sing you to sleep.' "My father, my father, o can you not trace The elf-king's daughters in that gloomy place?" "My son, my son, I see it clear How grey the ancient willows appear." 'I love you, your comeliness charms me, my boy! And if you're not willing, my force I'll employ.' "Now father, now father, he's seizing my arm. Elf-king has done me a cruel harm." The father shudders, his ride is wild, In his arms he's holding the groaning child, Reaches the court with toil and dread. - The child he held in his arms was dead.
I believe I mentioned that in the video already... Here's the link to the reaction, which was recorded before watching this video... th-cam.com/video/QeL0LGga9TM/w-d-xo.html
My brother used to describe this song as"the hypnotic drone of inevitability". To that, let me just add the goosebumps that I still get after the first few bars. Every.Single.Time. And that is with years and years of listening to it. Only Rammstein...
This is one of their strongest songs. Its one of those pieces that would make perfect sense in a symphonic concert, with a big choir and large string section. And it was the first song where I thought that Rammstein was more than just a metal group, but something special that will be remembered forever. Not just commerce with everyday topics, but art. The way Till plays with the German language here, how he digs into the drum accents during the verses ("hörst du denn den donner nicht ?") Is at a level that few people can even dream to reach. His performance especially during the climax is so captivating, and on top of it all it's perfectly orchestrated. Every detail fits.
Also Flake once was very scared of flighing as well as the current Dabei Lama himself. I also once was reading a sweet story. Flake said that they where flying back to Germany after they where giving a concert in Mexico. They came into a thunder and a flash stroke the plane. Even the light went out. Till was just writing something, but because of the missing light, he anyway could not continue. Richard was waving "goodbye" and Flake himself was feeling very scared. Till was sitting next to him end realised it. He calmed Flake down, by laying his hand on Flakes. I guess this is why it sticks in my mind. I find it a very sweet gesture of Till. Thanks for the reaction.
Flake's fear of flying was a big problem for him as the band became more successful and and many performance venues could only be reached by plane. In one of his books he describes, what he did to cope with it. Probably the funniest story is, that for a while he had a piece of debris from a crashed plane in his hand luggage, because he said to himself that a plane that had already crashed would not crash a second time.
This song is awesome, that chorus of the synchronized harmonic singing is sooo good. I actually have the tie-in "weiter weiter ins verderben" t-shirt, which has a great logo on the front. Was my first Rammstein t-shirt
This song is so captivating! I love it! You seemed to enjoy it too! U know what? I love how much effort u put into ur Rammstein reactions! Like checking out the poem before listening to Dalai Lama. I appreciate u a lot
I'm glad you do. Thank you so much, but most of the credit is due to my team. They are the one who do the research and provide me with the links to the videos, not to mention translations. I just follow the path they lay in front of me. :)
@@xsezz yes,yes,but you haven't team in the beginning (just the fans) and still you was surprisingly the right way many times.😁Later read the comments and like a sponge you drained the infos of Rammstein and really felt it(if this phrase has meaning in english 😬),note it,and fall in love with the band.Soon.🙂I don't say your team not make good work,bc it's not true.🙂 Finally, I'll write a comment about your reaction,bc I want badly this song reaction like you mentioned months ago.😅Just I pondering a bit yet cause you surprised me with it,all of a sudden did it& I am happy.☺️
I kinda enjoy when the plane shakes due to my love for rollercoasters, but can of cause understand the fear..but the smiles can help other not be as scared or panic..it's not that you can do anything as the plane goes down but to embrace the fact that you may die.. If on a boat you can try to jump into the water but it's a little harder 20.000ft up in the air, so you can just smile and wave.. :)
On the CD of Reise Reise just as you start the CD you can rewind it into the negative to hear a black box flight recording from a real airplane crash. The front cover of Reise Reise is a black box flight recorder. In some countries they removed that little hidden recording though due to sensitivity.
Yeah, it's the last few seconds of the cockpit voice recorder audio from Japan Airlines Flight 123 which crashed on August 12, 1985 after suffering a sudden decompression 12 minutes into the flight. It is to this day the deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history. Details on Wikipedia. This particular song and the Reise, Reise album in general are loosely inspired by the crash.
You're right - this song has everything top notch - sudden mood changes, angry (or even furious) Till, excelent drums, guitars, keyboard... and the overwhelming feeling that something bad is gonna happen. The final plot twist is terrifying - but this song instantly became one of my favourie ♥️
Nice reaction as usual my dear. Love this song. The combination of this famous poem by Wolfgang von Goethe and a modern way of transportation. With the heavy music. Imo one layer of interpretation is when fear becomes so overwhelming you even kill. I bet you an arm and a leg, Till came up with the lyrics during or after one of their airtravels. Maybe that one comming from Mexico. As usual with love from Germany🤘😎
God this song. Sends shivers down my spine everytime I listen to it. When Till sings about squeezing the life our of the child I hear a faint sorrow in his tone as if he is choking back the tears. The poem is from Der Erlkonig (The Elvin King)from Wolfgang von Goethe. In the poem a father is on horseback with his son and is traveling home. The father thinks he sees the elves of the forest. He sees their glowing eyes and holds his son tight so the Elvin King doesn't get his child and in doing so suffocates the child in his arms. So dark and beautiful! Who rides, so late, through night and wind? It is the father with his child. He has the boy well in his arm He holds him safely, he keeps him warm. My son, why do you hide your face in fear? - Father, do you not see the Elf-king? The Elf-king with crown and cape? - My son, it is a streak of fog. - "You dear child, come, go with me! (Very) beautiful games I play with you; Many colorful flowers are on the beach, My mother has many a golden robe." - My father, my father, and do you not hear What the Elf-king quietly promises me? - Be calm, stay calm, my child; Through dry leaves the wind is sighing. - "Do you, fine boy, want to go with me? My daughters shall wait on you finely; My daughters lead the nightly dance, And rock and dance and sing to bring you in." - My father, my father, and don't you see there The Elf-king's daughters in the gloomy place? - My son, my son, I see it clearly: There shimmer the old willows so grey. - "I love you, your beautiful form excites me; And if you're not willing, then I will use force." - My father, my father, he's touching me now! The Elf-king has done me harm! - It horrifies the father; he swiftly rides on, He holds the moaning child in his arms, Reaches the farm with great difficulty; In his arms, the child was dead.
In the original Goethe describes the story of a protective father trying to save his feverish son by riding him to a doctor. During the ride his son gets fever dreams of the god of death calling him to him and his daughters while the father tries to calm him down. In the end the fever takes the son just before the father arrives at the doctor. In the Rammstein adaptation father and son are both in danger and again only the son hears the calling of the god of death in the winds. This time the father doesn't try to calm the kid, but instead, holds him and suffocates him in his panic. Here death doesn't take the child, but instead the father fails his role as protector and hands him over. I see it as a look on the problems of parenting in the modern time. While in the original, the father is the hero who does everything right and is willing to do anything to save his son, fate still takes him. The modern father is so occupied by his own fear of dying that he doesn't even realizes that he is about to kill his son and fate only has to threaten.
Nice video, I really like your content. Regarding to the meaning and death of the child in the song I once heard an interpretation that the father is overprotective over his child and kills it by squeezing it too hard and not letting the child deal with difficult situations. The child is dead in a sense that it never really grows up because some parents don't let their children experience bad stuff which will result in an adult who can't take care of itself.
Heya! 👋🏼👋🏼 Everything's just fuggin dandy in Massachusetts. My kid was in the North End (Italian section) of Boston on Sat. She said there was a random girl singing beautiful opera on her balcony. Priceless. 🇮🇹🎵🎶🍝
This song is just amazing, I love keyboards in this one, specially in the end. I love flying but I have so much respect, one thing goes wrong and we're fuck. But still I love the view from plane.
It was a long journey since your first Rammstein Reaction - You thought you would be that addicted to Rammstein? ^^ Because i never thought i would be and then i watched my first Rammstein Video ^^
The difference in the circumstances of the dying of the child is that in this song the father actually kills his child by accident, while in the original, you dont really know why the child dies. A typical Rammstein twist ;)
Though Rammstein are famous for their hidden, lyrical double-meanings, I think even the original poem is basically a gothic horror story with the intent of conveying a sense of dread to the reader instead of a profound message; the song is meant to do the same thing, I suppose.
Older Germans had to learn that poem by heart in school. So we invented different endings to make it funny. Normally the poem ended with: They reached the farm with efforts and pain, the child was alive, the horse was dead.
Rammstein songs would be so simple if this song was just about a father accidentally suffocating his child. I once heard from someone that the song was about overprotective parents. However, I doubted that helicopter parents were such a phenomenon back then. This line of thinking, however, gave me an idea. What if it is not about parents, but here the state is criticized for interfering too much in the lives of citizens? Due to their origins in the punk scene, Rammstein have enjoyed a special freedom away from social constraints, which they have more and more lost over time.
Wow, sounds complicated. You could be right, I have no idea. I was expecting a second meaning as well but from the looks of the comments, everyone only has one. I thought, it would be something like: The child is being tempted by different societal pressures, warns his dad about it but his dad ignores him, until it's too late and his son has fallen prey to said pressures. I have no idea...
And about the kid dying I put that down to the father would rather kill his son himself in love than potentially have his son meet a worse fate. Sort of like "Old Yeller" I suppose
It's a pity that the rhyme is lost in the English translation. Maybe there is an English translation of Erlkönig, that's the basis of the song. Or do you speak German?
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This song is based on a poem by J.W.Goethe. In 1782, of course, there were still no airplanes. Here is the old original:
Erlkönig - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (english translation):
ho's riding so late where winds blow wild
It is the father grasping his child;
He holds the boy embraced in his arm,
He clasps him snugly, he keeps him warm.
"My son, why cover your face in such fear?"
"You see the elf-king, father?
He's near! The king of the elves with crown and train!"
"My son, the mist is on the plain."
'Sweet lad, o come and join me, do!
Such pretty games I will play with you;
On the shore gay flowers their color unfold,
My mother has many garments of gold.'
"My father, my father, and can you not hear
The promise the elf-king breathes in my ear?"
"Be calm, stay calm, my child, lie low:
In withered leaves the night-winds blow."
'Will you, sweet lad, come along with me?
My daughters shall care for you tenderly;
In the night my daughters their revelry keep,
They'll rock you and dance you and sing you to sleep.'
"My father, my father, o can you not trace
The elf-king's daughters in that gloomy place?"
"My son, my son, I see it clear
How grey the ancient willows appear."
'I love you, your comeliness charms me, my boy!
And if you're not willing, my force I'll employ.'
"Now father, now father, he's seizing my arm.
Elf-king has done me a cruel harm."
The father shudders, his ride is wild,
In his arms he's holding the groaning child,
Reaches the court with toil and dread. -
The child he held in his arms was dead.
I believe I mentioned that in the video already... Here's the link to the reaction, which was recorded before watching this video... th-cam.com/video/QeL0LGga9TM/w-d-xo.html
@@xsezz Also, the text translation to this video is pure garbage !
This song is an adaptation of Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Erlkönig.
Aaah, I see. Thank you.
@@xsezzyou need a funny Version of the Erlkönig.
TH-cam: Marco Rima - Erlkönig🤣
Sorry no subtitles.
My brother used to describe this song as"the hypnotic drone of inevitability". To that, let me just add the goosebumps that I still get after the first few bars. Every.Single.Time. And that is with years and years of listening to it. Only Rammstein...
Interesting. You're right, only Rammstein. :)
This is one of their strongest songs. Its one of those pieces that would make perfect sense in a symphonic concert, with a big choir and large string section.
And it was the first song where I thought that Rammstein was more than just a metal group, but something special that will be remembered forever. Not just commerce with everyday topics, but art. The way Till plays with the German language here, how he digs into the drum accents during the verses ("hörst du denn den donner nicht ?") Is at a level that few people can even dream to reach. His performance especially during the climax is so captivating, and on top of it all it's perfectly orchestrated. Every detail fits.
Thank you for sharing. :)
Also Flake once was very scared of flighing as well as the current Dabei Lama himself. I also once was reading a sweet story. Flake said that they where flying back to Germany after they where giving a concert in Mexico. They came into a thunder and a flash stroke the plane. Even the light went out. Till was just writing something, but because of the missing light, he anyway could not continue. Richard was waving "goodbye" and Flake himself was feeling very scared. Till was sitting next to him end realised it. He calmed Flake down, by laying his hand on Flakes. I guess this is why it sticks in my mind. I find it a very sweet gesture of Till. Thanks for the reaction.
Nice. Yeah, Till seems like a genuinely nice guy. The whole group does. I'm glad they're there for each other.
Flake's fear of flying was a big problem for him as the band became more successful and and many performance venues could only be reached by plane. In one of his books he describes, what he did to cope with it. Probably the funniest story is, that for a while he had a piece of debris from a crashed plane in his hand luggage, because he said to himself that a plane that had already crashed would not crash a second time.
@@xsezz That is so true. I am glad as well, that they support each other.
@@tosa2522 LoL, that's funny! The debris part. :)
This song is awesome, that chorus of the synchronized harmonic singing is sooo good. I actually have the tie-in "weiter weiter ins verderben" t-shirt, which has a great logo on the front. Was my first Rammstein t-shirt
Cool, congrats! :)
This song is so captivating! I love it! You seemed to enjoy it too! U know what? I love how much effort u put into ur Rammstein reactions! Like checking out the poem before listening to Dalai Lama. I appreciate u a lot
I'm glad you do. Thank you so much, but most of the credit is due to my team. They are the one who do the research and provide me with the links to the videos, not to mention translations. I just follow the path they lay in front of me. :)
@@xsezz well then thanks to your team! They are Awesome!
@@sowhat6148 They sure are! :)
@@sowhat6148 Thank you very much!
@@xsezz yes,yes,but you haven't team in the beginning (just the fans) and still you was surprisingly the right way many times.😁Later read the comments and like a sponge you drained the infos of Rammstein and really felt it(if this phrase has meaning in english 😬),note it,and fall in love with the band.Soon.🙂I don't say your team not make good work,bc it's not true.🙂
Finally, I'll write a comment about your reaction,bc I want badly this song reaction like you mentioned months ago.😅Just I pondering a bit yet cause you surprised me with it,all of a sudden did it& I am happy.☺️
There is also a famous quote from this poem "And if you're not willing, then I will use violence". Every German knows those words.
Damn, that got dark, fast.
Marine surely creates good Custom Videos
Absolutely!
This song is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yeah, it sure is!
I kinda enjoy when the plane shakes due to my love for rollercoasters, but can of cause understand the fear..but the smiles can help other not be as scared or panic..it's not that you can do anything as the plane goes down but to embrace the fact that you may die.. If on a boat you can try to jump into the water but it's a little harder 20.000ft up in the air, so you can just smile and wave.. :)
Yeah, that's exactly it, LoL. Everyone is trying to act cool not to start a panic. :)
On the CD of Reise Reise just as you start the CD you can rewind it into the negative to hear a black box flight recording from a real airplane crash. The front cover of Reise Reise is a black box flight recorder. In some countries they removed that little hidden recording though due to sensitivity.
Oh, interesting little secret. It all adds up now!
Here it is th-cam.com/video/x-h3QajtLnc/w-d-xo.html
Yeah, it's the last few seconds of the cockpit voice recorder audio from Japan Airlines Flight 123 which crashed on August 12, 1985 after suffering a sudden decompression 12 minutes into the flight. It is to this day the deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history. Details on Wikipedia. This particular song and the Reise, Reise album in general are loosely inspired by the crash.
@@r.t.5918 Yup, I know it, I've seen it a couple of times during reactions. :)
@@berlindude75 That must be terrifying.
note that the album was the first after 9/11 and therefore the variation could have come with the airplane
Aaah, interesting.
You're right - this song has everything top notch - sudden mood changes, angry (or even furious) Till, excelent drums, guitars, keyboard... and the overwhelming feeling that something bad is gonna happen. The final plot twist is terrifying - but this song instantly became one of my favourie ♥️
Nice reaction as usual my dear. Love this song. The combination of this famous poem by Wolfgang von Goethe and a modern way of transportation. With the heavy music. Imo one layer of interpretation is when fear becomes so overwhelming you even kill.
I bet you an arm and a leg, Till came up with the lyrics during or after one of their airtravels. Maybe that one comming from Mexico. As usual with love from Germany🤘😎
Interesting. Yeah, it's very possible, LoL!
God this song. Sends shivers down my spine everytime I listen to it.
When Till sings about squeezing the life our of the child I hear a faint sorrow in his tone as if he is choking back the tears.
The poem is from Der Erlkonig (The Elvin King)from Wolfgang von Goethe. In the poem a father is on horseback with his son and is traveling home. The father thinks he sees the elves of the forest. He sees their glowing eyes and holds his son tight so the Elvin King doesn't get his child and in doing so suffocates the child in his arms. So dark and beautiful!
Who rides, so late, through night and wind?
It is the father with his child.
He has the boy well in his arm
He holds him safely, he keeps him warm.
My son, why do you hide your face in fear? -
Father, do you not see the Elf-king?
The Elf-king with crown and cape? -
My son, it is a streak of fog. -
"You dear child, come, go with me!
(Very) beautiful games I play with you;
Many colorful flowers are on the beach,
My mother has many a golden robe." -
My father, my father, and do you not hear
What the Elf-king quietly promises me? -
Be calm, stay calm, my child;
Through dry leaves the wind is sighing. -
"Do you, fine boy, want to go with me?
My daughters shall wait on you finely;
My daughters lead the nightly dance,
And rock and dance and sing to bring you in." -
My father, my father, and don't you see there
The Elf-king's daughters in the gloomy place? -
My son, my son, I see it clearly:
There shimmer the old willows so grey. -
"I love you, your beautiful form excites me;
And if you're not willing, then I will use force." -
My father, my father, he's touching me now!
The Elf-king has done me harm! -
It horrifies the father; he swiftly rides on,
He holds the moaning child in his arms,
Reaches the farm with great difficulty;
In his arms, the child was dead.
Yup, checked out the poem before watching this. Here's the reaction: th-cam.com/video/QeL0LGga9TM/w-d-xo.html
In the original Goethe describes the story of a protective father trying to save his feverish son by riding him to a doctor.
During the ride his son gets fever dreams of the god of death calling him to him and his daughters while the father tries to calm him down.
In the end the fever takes the son just before the father arrives at the doctor.
In the Rammstein adaptation father and son are both in danger and again only the son hears the calling of the god of death in the winds.
This time the father doesn't try to calm the kid, but instead, holds him and suffocates him in his panic.
Here death doesn't take the child, but instead the father fails his role as protector and hands him over.
I see it as a look on the problems of parenting in the modern time.
While in the original, the father is the hero who does everything right and is willing to do anything to save his son, fate still takes him.
The modern father is so occupied by his own fear of dying that he doesn't even realizes that he is about to kill his son and fate only has to threaten.
Nice video, I really like your content. Regarding to the meaning and death of the child in the song I once heard an interpretation that the father is overprotective over his child and kills it by squeezing it too hard and not letting the child deal with difficult situations. The child is dead in a sense that it never really grows up because some parents don't let their children experience bad stuff which will result in an adult who can't take care of itself.
Aaaah, interesting. I agree that a good balance needs to exist between protection and freedom.
“Evil Till”…that make me laugh😂…this song is sooo dark, I love it❤
Heya! 👋🏼👋🏼
Everything's just fuggin dandy in Massachusetts.
My kid was in the North End (Italian section) of Boston on Sat. She said there was a random girl singing beautiful opera on her balcony.
Priceless. 🇮🇹🎵🎶🍝
This song is just amazing, I love keyboards in this one, specially in the end. I love flying but I have so much respect, one thing goes wrong and we're fuck. But still I love the view from plane.
Agreed, amazing song.
It was a long journey since your first Rammstein Reaction - You thought you would be that addicted to Rammstein? ^^
Because i never thought i would be and then i watched my first Rammstein Video ^^
Yup, a great journey indeed and we hare more to go!
One of educatedmarine's best.
The difference in the circumstances of the dying of the child is that in this song the father actually kills his child by accident, while in the original, you dont really know why the child dies. A typical Rammstein twist ;)
Hmm, interesting. Thank you for the explanation.
Though Rammstein are famous for their hidden, lyrical double-meanings, I think even the original poem is basically a gothic horror story with the intent of conveying a sense of dread to the reader instead of a profound message; the song is meant to do the same thing, I suppose.
Yeah, that's what I figured, even though I'm used to Rammstein songs having multiple meanings. :) Sometimes it's just that simple.
You’re the best, bro!
Thanks, man.
I was just listening to this
me too :-)
Psychic powers!
AS a German speaking American and some one who is scared of flying , this song has always terrified me as a child.
Older Germans had to learn that poem by heart in school. So we invented different endings to make it funny. Normally the poem ended with: They reached the farm with efforts and pain, the child was alive, the horse was dead.
No the child died
Rammstein songs would be so simple if this song was just about a father accidentally suffocating his child.
I once heard from someone that the song was about overprotective parents. However, I doubted that helicopter parents were such a phenomenon back then. This line of thinking, however, gave me an idea.
What if it is not about parents, but here the state is criticized for interfering too much in the lives of citizens?
Due to their origins in the punk scene, Rammstein have enjoyed a special freedom away from social constraints, which they have more and more lost over time.
Wow, sounds complicated. You could be right, I have no idea. I was expecting a second meaning as well but from the looks of the comments, everyone only has one.
I thought, it would be something like: The child is being tempted by different societal pressures, warns his dad about it but his dad ignores him, until it's too late and his son has fallen prey to said pressures. I have no idea...
@@xsezz Every interpretation is correct as long as Till says nothing.😉
And about the kid dying I put that down to the father would rather kill his son himself in love than potentially have his son meet a worse fate. Sort of like "Old Yeller" I suppose
Aaah, interesting.
Weiter, weiter ins Verderben
Wir müssen leben, bis wir sterben
Ramm
Stein
Rammvier
Rammingstone
Turmion Kätilöt - Verta ja lihaa, a very strange one, would like to see your opinion
I'll add it to the list. Thank you.
It's a pity that the rhyme is lost in the English translation. Maybe there is an English translation of Erlkönig, that's the basis of the song. Or do you speak German?
Dalie
Lama
Ugh
Ok
❤️❤️
:)
Till
Ruby
Lindemann
Commey
Pls react to Rammstein's Hilf mir :)
I will!
should watch the original video with aliens and plane crash
have you already reacted to bückstabü?
Not yet.
@@xsezz you should!! ;-)
Idk why,but I always think he did.☺️🤦
Please react to Alter Mann, great song, i love your videos Greetings from Chile!
Talked to much. Destroyed it.