I've never interpreted the song in the same way as you. There's something tragic when the father hugs his child and wants to protect it from the plane crash so much that it suffocates and dies in the father's arms
The Dalai Lama is afraid of flying, it's a major phobia for him. This plane however never crashed. Unfortunately, the father was so terrified for his kid's safety that he could't control his fear of losing him, and smothered him accidentally instead of protecting him. "Fear is the mind-killer that leads to total obliteration." (Litany against fear, Frank Herbert's Dune) To answer your question about god, way to many horrors happened and still happening in our world for me to really believe in a kind, compassionate entity.
Actually, they did play Dalai Lama a few times live on the Reise Reise tour. There is even a bootleg recording of it on YT. But the song was dropped from the setlist, together with Amour because the crowds were not enthusiastic over them. Very sad because it is one of my favorites. I really hope Rammstein will play Dalai Lama and Rosenrot again live on the 2024 tour.
Hello D. Great reaction. One of my favorite songs. As the other already wrote, it's in part from a poem by Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe. Born in my hometown Frankfurt. Now imo the song is about fear and when fear becomes so overwhelming you don't realize you hurting your love one's. I always listen to it, when I fly.🤭🤭🤭 Did you react to "Adios" yet? Another great underrated song by Rammstein. Educatedmarine made a great video, just like this one. With love from Germany ❤️ 🤘🏻
Who'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. [english version] "NO TRANSLATION!"
My absolute all-time favourite Rammstein song. So extraordinary, so sinister in the versers and so haunting in the chorus... and the dreadful plot twist at the end. Not even mentioning the amazing music, just as usual ❤
The album this song is off, Reise Reise, uses a black box flight recorder for its cover art. Also if you rewind the CD into the negative at the start on some releases, there is a real black box flight recording from a plane crash in Japan. Ofcourse, that feature isn't on the Japan release. Some releases just have it at the start of the album anyway, without it being hidden
The original poem set to music composed by Schubert is very dark. There is amazing animated video you should see/react to. It tells the story. It has an English subtitles option aswell. The video is called "Franz Schubert: Erlkönig" and uploaded by OxfordLieder
Great reaction, love it as always! Can't wait to see/hear your reaction for songs like Zwitter, Spieluhr or Adios (not to be confused with Adieu). Keep up the nice work!
This is one of my favorite Rammstein songs.❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥 PS: Here is the original poem by J.W. von Goethe with an English translation. th-cam.com/video/nSVf0ZvoiCM/w-d-xo.html I had to learn it by heart at school.
"Some of the Tills lyrics are inspired by classical German literature. Poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe." Goethe's famous ballad Erlkönig, for ex. translated: Who rides so late through the night and the wind? It is the father with his child. He holds the boy safely in his arms; he holds him tight, he keeps him warm. In Goethe's poem, a ghostly apparition, the King of the Elves, whispers seductively to the child and seeks to abduct him into his realm. At the end of the ballad, the son dies in the arms of his father on horseback. In the song "Dalai Lama" the"King of the Winds" aims to claim the boy,who finally dies in his father's arms, held too tightly in anticipation of an airplane crash.
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. Greetings from Berlin, Germany😍
don't forget Heinz Erhardts variant (roughly translated) Who rides so late through wind and night It is the father, it's nearly eight. In his arms the child's well hold, He holds it well, it has a cold. Half three, half five, it's getting light, Still fast it is the father rides, Finally reaches the farmstead --- The boy, he lives, the horse is dead.
The last verse is missing in the video. They say that the plane lands safely and the father is totally destroyed because he killed his child. The song is so messed up, it's unbelievable. The hint comes right at the beginning. The angels call ONLY the human child to them. But as a listener, you think the machine is going to crash and everyone is going to die. Everyone on board panics and the father, who wants to protect his child with his arms, squeezes too hard and suffocates his child. In the end, however, the plane lands safely.
@@TomTomson81 My bad, well my verdict on this is that it was never in the song, but what you described does happen but not discretely in the song. Es tut mir leid.
In Flake's book 'Der Tastenficker' pages 18-25 he tells of his own fear of flying and how he takes a piece of wreckage with him on flights as statistically, it is almost impossible for a piece of a plane to crash twice, so it gave him some reassurance.
He did it, but does not do it anymore since a while, because he had troubles with it. He also writes there, that they were going home from a concert they gave in Mexico, as they got into a storm. A flash stroke and the light of the plane went black for a while. Till was just writing some lyrics. He also mentioned that Till took Flakes hand to calm him down.
"I guess we're supposed to think that the plain has crashed..." No. Why would you think that? The toll has been paid. A new member joined the eternal choir. The flight can continue. The anomaly is contained.
This song is a guide from the German poem “Erlkönig”(Alder-King) written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1782. The Alder-King Who rides so late through night and wind? It's the father with his child; He has the young lad safe in his arm, He holds him tightly, he keeps him warm "My son, why do you hide your face, so frightened?"- "Don't you see, father, the Alder-King? The Alder-King with his crown and tail?"- "My son, it's a wisp of fog." "You sweet child, come, go with me! Such beautiful games I'll play with you; There are lots of beautiful flowers on the shore; My mother has many golden clothes"- "My father, my father, and don't you hear, What the Alder-King promises me softly?"- "Hush now, stay quiet, my child; The wind is whispering in dry leaves."- "Do you want, fine lad, to go with me? My daughters shall wait on you, hand and foot; My daughters lead the nightly dance, And they'll show you how to sway and dance and sing."- "My father, my father, and don't you see Alder-King's daughters in that dark place?"- "My son, my son, I see it clearly: The old willows shimmer so gray.-" "I love you, your beautiful shape tantalizes me; And if you are not willing, I'm going to use force."- "My father, my father, now he's grabbing me! Alder-King hurt me!"- The father is filled with horror, he rides quickly He holds the groaning child in his arm, He just barely reaches the homestead The child was dead in his arms.
Very, very cool Song with a stupid Song Title! This is the modern Version of Erlkönig by J.W. von Goethe! Just because allegedly the Dalai Lama has fear of flying this Song should have been named so, that's stupid even if it's true!
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No I don't agree with you about god (you asked that😊) . I would like to encourage you to change your perspective and become interested in what he thinks and says about man in the Bible
I've never interpreted the song in the same way as you. There's something tragic when the father hugs his child and wants to protect it from the plane crash so much that it suffocates and dies in the father's arms
The Dalai Lama is afraid of flying, it's a major phobia for him.
This plane however never crashed. Unfortunately, the father was so terrified for his kid's safety that he could't control his fear of losing him, and smothered him accidentally instead of protecting him.
"Fear is the mind-killer that leads to total obliteration." (Litany against fear, Frank Herbert's Dune)
To answer your question about god, way to many horrors happened and still happening in our world for me to really believe in a kind, compassionate entity.
Top 3 Rammstein song ever. Beautiful and ironic.
Song is derived from a poet named Goethe and his poem Der Erlkonig. The king of Elves.
It‘s a modern version of Goethes Erlkönig
I love this song
Dalai Lama because he dosent like to Fly .
Of course we heard the song before, we are Rammstein fans after all;)
The lyrics are based on the poem "der Erlkönig" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Amazing song. I don't think they've done it live so it doesn't get the amount of attention it deserves.
Actually, they did play Dalai Lama a few times live on the Reise Reise tour. There is even a bootleg recording of it on YT. But the song was dropped from the setlist, together with Amour because the crowds were not enthusiastic over them. Very sad because it is one of my favorites. I really hope Rammstein will play Dalai Lama and Rosenrot again live on the 2024 tour.
@@CptMankepoot I stand corrected 😁. And yeah I would love them to do Dalai Lama this year. And Spieluhr which they haven't done for ages.
Hello D.
Great reaction. One of my favorite songs. As the other already wrote, it's in part from a poem by Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe. Born in my hometown Frankfurt.
Now imo the song is about fear and when fear becomes so overwhelming you don't realize you hurting your love one's.
I always listen to it, when I fly.🤭🤭🤭
Did you react to "Adios" yet? Another great underrated song by Rammstein.
Educatedmarine made a great video, just like this one.
With love from Germany ❤️ 🤘🏻
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Dalai Lama doesnt like to fly.
Everybody survived. But not this child.
Well done👍🎉😊Erlkönig von Johann Wolfgang Goethe, deutsche Ballade.
Who'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.
[english version] "NO TRANSLATION!"
Sehr gut 👍
THIS IS iT🎉😅👍THANKS😊@@tosa2522
@@tosa2522 gj mien jung!
My absolute all-time favourite Rammstein song. So extraordinary, so sinister in the versers and so haunting in the chorus... and the dreadful plot twist at the end. Not even mentioning the amazing music, just as usual ❤
The album this song is off, Reise Reise, uses a black box flight recorder for its cover art. Also if you rewind the CD into the negative at the start on some releases, there is a real black box flight recording from a plane crash in Japan. Ofcourse, that feature isn't on the Japan release. Some releases just have it at the start of the album anyway, without it being hidden
For example, "Was ich liebe" is still missing from the long list of your Rammstein reactions. There are live performances of this from 2019 🥰
What a song and a fantastic reaction 😊 I will go down on my kees...it takes 5 or 6 minutes, but I will try it 😂
I love flying...not afraid of it...safer than driving a car...😮😊
I agree with you - except when a car crashes you have a high chance of staying alive lol
The original poem set to music composed by Schubert is very dark. There is amazing animated video you should see/react to. It tells the story. It has an English subtitles option aswell.
The video is called "Franz Schubert: Erlkönig" and uploaded by OxfordLieder
Great reaction, love it as always! Can't wait to see/hear your reaction for songs like Zwitter, Spieluhr or Adios (not to be confused with Adieu). Keep up the nice work!
drowning or falling from a flight? burning alive, man, that's the worst... just a step higher than being buried alive...
This is one of my favorite Rammstein songs.❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
PS: Here is the original poem by J.W. von Goethe with an English translation.
th-cam.com/video/nSVf0ZvoiCM/w-d-xo.html
I had to learn it by heart at school.
Me too. And it's the only poem I still remember, word by word. Even back then I loved the story. 😀 And even more in the Rammstein version.
I did as well..lol
"Some of the Tills lyrics are inspired by classical German literature. Poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe." Goethe's famous ballad Erlkönig, for ex. translated:
Who rides so late through the night and the wind?
It is the father with his child.
He holds the boy safely in his arms;
he holds him tight, he keeps him warm.
In Goethe's poem, a ghostly apparition, the King of the Elves, whispers seductively to the child and seeks to abduct him into his realm. At the end of the ballad, the son dies in the arms of his father on horseback.
In the song "Dalai Lama" the"King of the Winds" aims to claim the boy,who finally dies in his father's arms, held too tightly in anticipation of an airplane crash.
Yes, but in the poem the king of elves did harm to the child (!) and killed it. The father could not protect it or escape 😢
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.
Greetings from Berlin, Germany😍
don't forget Heinz Erhardts variant (roughly translated)
Who rides so late through wind and night
It is the father, it's nearly eight.
In his arms the child's well hold,
He holds it well, it has a cold.
Half three, half five, it's getting light,
Still fast it is the father rides,
Finally reaches the farmstead ---
The boy, he lives, the horse is dead.
@@Engy_Wuck I like this version more ♥️
Great translation 👍👍👍
The last verse is missing in the video. They say that the plane lands safely and the father is totally destroyed because he killed his child.
The song is so messed up, it's unbelievable.
The hint comes right at the beginning. The angels call ONLY the human child to them. But as a listener, you think the machine is going to crash and everyone is going to die. Everyone on board panics and the father, who wants to protect his child with his arms, squeezes too hard and suffocates his child. In the end, however, the plane lands safely.
That last verse isn't in any other recordings too though, is it? I use Amazon Music and when I stream the song it doesn't have that part too
@@Sunbuddy_Solaire But that doesn't change the fact that it exists. It's an epilogue. Maybe unpublished, but I heard this in the "original" .
@@TomTomson81 ur talking about goethes poem
@@Uhrenforscher No, I'm not talking about the Erlkönig. I'm talking about the song. I think I did that very clearly.
@@TomTomson81 My bad, well my verdict on this is that it was never in the song, but what you described does happen but not discretely in the song. Es tut mir leid.
The is about a father killing his own aon by accident in trying to protect him. It eeminds me of the ending of The Mist.
Thats when you have scared overprotected parents, very tragic😢😢..
This is the Rammstein version of Goethe's Alder-king.
These gifts!🥺🎁You deserve it, D. This was just another cool video, I love your interpretations of songs.
hear this Song on your next Flight ....loud ^^^...lol
In Flake's book 'Der Tastenficker' pages 18-25 he tells of his own fear of flying and how he takes a piece of wreckage with him on flights as statistically, it is almost impossible for a piece of a plane to crash twice, so it gave him some reassurance.
Yes, but he had trouble at the airport every time 🤗
He did it, but does not do it anymore since a while, because he had troubles with it. He also writes there, that they were going home from a concert they gave in Mexico, as they got into a storm. A flash stroke and the light of the plane went black for a while. Till was just writing some lyrics. He also mentioned that Till took Flakes hand to calm him down.
👍❤
On the way to inavoidable horrible demises, you have to live and experience it until you die. I don't fear death, i fear the feel of dying.
"I guess we're supposed to think that the plain has crashed..."
No. Why would you think that? The toll has been paid. A new member joined the eternal choir. The flight can continue. The anomaly is contained.
This song is a guide from the German poem “Erlkönig”(Alder-King) written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1782.
The Alder-King
Who rides so late through night and wind?
It's the father with his child;
He has the young lad safe in his arm,
He holds him tightly, he keeps him warm
"My son, why do you hide your face, so frightened?"-
"Don't you see, father, the Alder-King?
The Alder-King with his crown and tail?"-
"My son, it's a wisp of fog."
"You sweet child, come, go with me!
Such beautiful games I'll play with you;
There are lots of beautiful flowers on the shore;
My mother has many golden clothes"-
"My father, my father, and don't you hear,
What the Alder-King promises me softly?"-
"Hush now, stay quiet, my child;
The wind is whispering in dry leaves."-
"Do you want, fine lad, to go with me?
My daughters shall wait on you, hand and foot;
My daughters lead the nightly dance,
And they'll show you how to sway and dance and sing."-
"My father, my father, and don't you see
Alder-King's daughters in that dark place?"-
"My son, my son, I see it clearly:
The old willows shimmer so gray.-"
"I love you, your beautiful shape tantalizes me;
And if you are not willing, I'm going to use force."-
"My father, my father, now he's grabbing me!
Alder-King hurt me!"-
The father is filled with horror, he rides quickly
He holds the groaning child in his arm,
He just barely reaches the homestead
The child was dead in his arms.
Actually it comes from Danish and was later translated into German by someone else, but that was going too far...😅
❤
Hey Mr.D.were you finally at the Rammstein Concer?
if I was - I promise there would be a video of me going crazy at the concert
What!? That I'll land safely again in three hours? Rammstein can never be trusted.
Very, very cool Song with a stupid Song Title!
This is the modern Version of Erlkönig by J.W. von Goethe!
Just because allegedly the Dalai Lama has fear of flying this Song should have been named so, that's stupid even if it's true!
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