'Zuhause bist immer nur du' here could have a double meaning in german. Once is 'you're always the only one at home' (single parent), but it could also mean 'you're always home for me'. What gives it a much deeper meaning for me. Same with 'Du bist zuhause für immer - und mich' - 'You're home forever - and for me'
"It means that his home is alsways his dad in this case." totally agree, i think it's pretty obviously here. He litterly says "you = home" and says that to 1 person (in that case his dad) it is like "You as person in person are always my home. no matter where" something like that.
Since you are interested in the German language: this song starts with a good demonstration of what you can do with prefixes in German. Take one word (gezogen- that’s ziehen in a past tense) and change its meaning by adding those prefixes Gezogen- pulled Angezogen- dressed Ausgezogen- here: undressed (but also moved out) Umgezogen- here: moved house (but also changed clothes) Großgezogen- raised Also: Eingezogen- moved in Entzogen- taken away Verzogen- spoiled ( children) Vorgezogen- preferred ( but also pulled out from behind or let seeds grow inside before you plant them outside) Hinterzogen- evaded (taxes) I stop here because I don’t want to discourage you from learning German. I think it’s fun to discover things like that.
This is truly my favourite song of theirs, so happy that you reacted to this. ❤ “Heimat” in German actually means so much more than “homeland”. It is where you feel comfortable and at home. It is the feeling of arriving and being able to fully let go. And it doesn’t necessarily have to be a place. Like Henning says “Ich hab keine Heimat, ich hab nur dich” (I don’t have a Heimat, I just have you), Heimat can also be found in people. Henning said once that he always thought he didn’t have a “Heimat” - until he moved out of Köln and really missed it. The line „wir warn in Prag, Paris und Wien, in der Bretagne und Berlin“ actually lists the places Henning visited with his father during Christmas. And they weren’t in Copenhagen („Aber nicht in Kopenhagen“) because their train was snowed in on Christmas eve.
Lost my mum 3 years ago to cancer when she was only 62 years old. But i was able to show her this song a year earlier before her demise to tell her how i felt (Never really met my dad since he left when i was 4 years old so yeah ... ). The song has a special place in my heart ...
This is the first song I ever heard of them like 3 years ago, I wanted music to motivate me in my german learning, that piano and that expressive raspy voice hooked me in, plus the instrumentation later, it felt amazing, melancholic, chill. Back then I tought the that voice came from a chubby guy with glasses and a ponytail in a cabin (I only found out how Henning looked a year after this hahah). Then I added In meinem Bett and been in love with them ever since. Then I saw the lyrics and they where so precious, and with so much wordplays. I later found out this wasn’t about romantic love but about family it made me so fullfilled to finally see a band talking about different kinds of love from such a tender perspective. I can’t express how amazingly beautiful it was to hear those first piano chords on their concert in Hannover… so glad to be alive at the same time this band exists, really.
German is my mother tongue, but the longer I listen to content like yours, the more I realize how meaningful, profound and multi-layered the German language is compared to others, and that fascinates me more and more. BTW i love your concept and your open and cordial manner. More of this please😊🙏🏽
I think that in this song, alot get´s lost in translation sadly. In german, the words have such a deep meaning :) It´s also one of my favourite songs ever. 🙌
@@mnwld1323 Why do you think that? I always interpreted the line in "Marie" as if she had died just like his best friend. EDIT: nevermind, i googled it. thank you for clearing it up!
This is one of the first songs that i heard by them in German and i fell in love with this band because of this song and Pocahontas. I think his love for his father truly shines through here. It's a beautiful song. As for which album you should do, i think "Schlagschatten" had most of my favorites, but "Es ist Abend und wir sitzen bei mir" is really good too.
Thank you so much for your beautiful reaction! I always thought that this song is just so reassuring for parents and children who grew to be adults. That they love each other the same even when one party couldn't express it trough puberty or conflict. It must be wonderful for a parent to get this deep gratitude from the adult kids after all the sacrifice. Makes me want to hug my mom and dad forever🥹 Also the songs instrumentals and vocals are soooo fun!
Typical German meal with big thank you to the influence of the Italian guest workers who came here and stayed. Best example that multi culture only makes everyone's live brighter! Dear germans, could you imagine our cuisine here without the influence of the Italians, Greeks or Turks,... ? Greetings from Berlin 😎
I've listened to this song countless times and never once thought it was about a parent-child relationship but now that you mentioned it the tears won't stopp 😭
I have listened to this song probably a thousand times but your reaction brought tears to my eyes. Never felt the song and its meaning as much as i did now. (and I am german) beautiful feeling. Thank you!
The seemingly inconspicuous line "We've been to Prague, Paris and Vienna, to Brittany and Berlin but not to Copenhagen" has a special background. It was only years after the song was released that Henning May mentioned in passing in a podcast what it was all about: His father used to take him to a different city every Christmas. They set off on Christmas Eve and spent Christmas together in a different city every year. This took them to Prague, Paris, Vienna, Brittany and Berlin. But on the way to Copenhagen, the train got stuck in the snow and they had to turn back to Cologne. The whole song is very relatable for anyone who has parents. But I like the fact that at first only his father could understand the reference. That makes the song even more personal. edit: Just saw that @Hannah-lc3nu alreay mentioned it earlier.
A big yes to album reactions!!!! Their discography is a bit confusing if you try to find it just by googling, because they have recorded many of their songs several times, they have live records & EP:s etc. I was skimming through their discography when I was trying to decide which ones to buy, and ended up ordering Alles Nix Konkretes (2016), Schlagschatten (2018) and Es ist Abend und wir sitzen bei Mir (2023). They also made a covid album called 12 in 2020, but I didn't order it (yet) because it was reeeeaallly experimental & I have not quite wrapped my head around it yet. So, if I were you I would start with Alles Nix Konkretes & move forward from there. I enjoy all of their albums, and it's great to hear how they evolve through the years. But you'll see what I mean when you listen to those albums as a whole. I'd recommend the chronological order.
This song always resonated with me. It perfectly encapsulates how I was in my School/College days and then the regret of not thinking about what it does to the person that always gave everything for you unconditionally, but being too scared to tell them and cause more hurt. Them being more worried about you then you yourself have been. The feeling of having been an ungrateful brat to the person who just wants you to be well realizing how good they have been to you, while you realize in retrospective how badly you treated them in your youth.
it still gets you sometimes when you get caught unawares on the radio or so, even though it is now quite an old song x... In many ways the best album to react to is the lyrics video of '12', it is only 39 minutes long and created during Covid and very conceptual, showing you a different view of them as experimental musicians as well as getting a video (there are English subtitles, too) th-cam.com/video/3Zi0MYQK5k8/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared ....
I lost my dad very few days ago. It helps, hurts & makes me happy at the same time listening to this and seeing your reaction. I cry out of pain for that loss and out of joy for having him with me all my life. I can assure everybody, that is is allways the best decision to call (or better visit) the parents and tell them: I love you - just because! Thank you for that reaction. This brought some hard and some great feelings to me!!! This video came just the right way at the right time. 🙂 There is another german song (available as a powerfull live version with included engl. subtitels) It helped me a lot and I would swear that you would love it. Maybe you want to give it a chance, You will not regret it! This one: "Herbert Grönemeyer - Der Weg Live 2003 - Mensch Tour (Gelsenkirchen)[Subtitle]"
I am so incredibly sorry for your loss, my friend. You and your family will be in my prayers, I assure you. I’m glad something I did was able to bring you some glimmer of light to your day. May your journey through grief be a strengthening experience and may your loved one’s memory be cherished forever.
@@walterooski Thank you so much. Isn't it strange? You do these recation videos. You do them for fun, maybe for some little income, for sharing your love for music or for many other reasons... and than, in this very moment in time someone for the other side of our globe watches your video coincidentally in the middle of the night, searching for a place to reflect his multiple feelings. And suddenly your video brings so much sense to one out of 8 billion people and is a little light in that night. I'm sure you have your own purposes and meanings for your videos. But now there is another. It's just a meaning/sense for me, but it is there right now! And this is good! I hope while realizing this, it brings you a little smile, like your video brought to me! Keep calling your parents, telling them that you love them. I did so and it makes everything so much more easy to bear, because everything was said. It is a very hard decision to make, when the doctors tell you, that it is now up to you to decide, weather lots of medical machines should hold the rest of life in a body or not. I was not prepared for this. It is so hard to decide, that it is in his will, to shut the machines down and let him go his last way. But: He went in the knowledge that he did good, that there was nothing left to say. We hold his hands, told him he's free to go and that we don't hold him back. It hurts, beside beeing sure, that it was the best decision. My wife didn't had the chance to tell her dad, how much he meant to her in his last days and she didn't found the courage to tell him all the years before, when life was that normal life like it always has been. She struggled a lot with all these never told words, she now would like have said before... I really got you, when you told your audience: "Just call your parents - just because"! One will never know what will happen. From one blink to another everything can chance and so it did here. My dad had fun with me and 2 days later he was bumped out of consciousness and never woke up again. We had 3 days left... It would have been to late, to tell him. So keep calling - just because!
I was so touched by your heartwarming reaction in the end . You might like "Ozean" (Hennings Version) as well, it was my favorit heartfelt song of the evening, when I was at the AMK Konzert last Summer in Cologne. ❤
hy, i´m from germany and today I found your reactions and enjoyed them so much, that i watched them for hours. I just discovered AnnenMayKantereit myself and loved them. I would really be happy if you could give reactions to three other german bands. 1) Jennifer Rostock is a well known female fronted, german speaking rockband. i would like to recommend different songs for different reasons. - "I loved you bit i´ve choosen dispo" --> because of her great voice! - " Hengstin" ( its a fantasy word it means stallion like a mare but the leader mare) --> because its the most different style but the most popular song and great - " Baukräne" or " Himalaya" --> because of the lyrics 2) Emil Bulls is a also well known german but english speaking alternativ metalband - "jaws of oblivion" --> is the most popular song 3) Guano Apes is a female fronted english speaking band. Please don´t watch live videos ;-) - "Lords of the boards" --> is the second most popular TIA Pia
The line "Zu Hause bsit immer noch du" is kinda wrong in the translation. The meaning is more like "You are my home" in the meaning of mom or dad being the anchor the home the safe place :) Your are my home kinda way
The translation ist a little misleading. "At home it's always just you" should be something like "You're always my '(at) home' ". As you can also see in the last paragraph.
I love you too Son! It’s a real privilege being your momma! 💕💕💕
"Du bist zu Hause für immer und mich"
I love you, Momma!
'Zuhause bist immer nur du' here could have a double meaning in german. Once is 'you're always the only one at home' (single parent), but it could also mean 'you're always home for me'. What gives it a much deeper meaning for me. Same with 'Du bist zuhause für immer - und mich' - 'You're home forever - and for me'
It means that his home is alsways his dad in this case.
"It means that his home is alsways his dad in this case." totally agree, i think it's pretty obviously here. He litterly says "you = home" and says that to 1 person (in that case his dad) it is like "You as person in person are always my home. no matter where" something like that.
Since you are interested in the German language: this song starts with a good demonstration of what you can do with prefixes in German. Take one word (gezogen- that’s ziehen in a past tense) and change its meaning by adding those prefixes
Gezogen- pulled
Angezogen- dressed
Ausgezogen- here: undressed (but also moved out)
Umgezogen- here: moved house (but also changed clothes)
Großgezogen- raised
Also:
Eingezogen- moved in
Entzogen- taken away
Verzogen- spoiled ( children)
Vorgezogen- preferred ( but also pulled out from behind or let seeds grow inside before you plant them outside)
Hinterzogen- evaded (taxes)
I stop here because I don’t want to discourage you from learning German. I think it’s fun to discover things like that.
This is truly my favourite song of theirs, so happy that you reacted to this. ❤
“Heimat” in German actually means so much more than “homeland”. It is where you feel comfortable and at home. It is the feeling of arriving and being able to fully let go. And it doesn’t necessarily have to be a place. Like Henning says “Ich hab keine Heimat, ich hab nur dich” (I don’t have a Heimat, I just have you), Heimat can also be found in people.
Henning said once that he always thought he didn’t have a “Heimat” - until he moved out of Köln and really missed it.
The line „wir warn in Prag, Paris und Wien, in der Bretagne und Berlin“ actually lists the places Henning visited with his father during Christmas. And they weren’t in Copenhagen („Aber nicht in Kopenhagen“) because their train was snowed in on Christmas eve.
Lost my mum 3 years ago to cancer when she was only 62 years old. But i was able to show her this song a year earlier before her demise to tell her how i felt (Never really met my dad since he left when i was 4 years old so yeah ... ). The song has a special place in my heart ...
This is the first song I ever heard of them like 3 years ago, I wanted music to motivate me in my german learning, that piano and that expressive raspy voice hooked me in, plus the instrumentation later, it felt amazing, melancholic, chill. Back then I tought the that voice came from a chubby guy with glasses and a ponytail in a cabin (I only found out how Henning looked a year after this hahah). Then I added In meinem Bett and been in love with them ever since.
Then I saw the lyrics and they where so precious, and with so much wordplays. I later found out this wasn’t about romantic love but about family it made me so fullfilled to finally see a band talking about different kinds of love from such a tender perspective. I can’t express how amazingly beautiful it was to hear those first piano chords on their concert in Hannover… so glad to be alive at the same time this band exists, really.
German is my mother tongue, but the longer I listen to content like yours, the more I realize how meaningful, profound and multi-layered the German language is compared to others, and that fascinates me more and more.
BTW i love your concept and your open and cordial manner. More of this please😊🙏🏽
I think that in this song, alot get´s lost in translation sadly. In german, the words have such a deep meaning :) It´s also one of my favourite songs ever. 🙌
On Orangenlied, he said "I have written a song for my dad - again😉" that's why, this is the first one.
For what I know, his dad was a single parent.
His mother died rather early, I think. It's mentioned in the song "Marie".
EDIT: that's not true.
@@Rosea_30 She didn't die. His parents split up.
@@mnwld1323 Why do you think that? I always interpreted the line in "Marie" as if she had died just like his best friend.
EDIT: nevermind, i googled it. thank you for clearing it up!
No, es viudo. En la canción de 7 años, está dedicada a su madre.
This is one of the first songs that i heard by them in German and i fell in love with this band because of this song and Pocahontas. I think his love for his father truly shines through here. It's a beautiful song. As for which album you should do, i think "Schlagschatten" had most of my favorites, but "Es ist Abend und wir sitzen bei mir" is really good too.
Thank you so much for your beautiful reaction!
I always thought that this song is just so reassuring for parents and children who grew to be adults. That they love each other the same even when one party couldn't express it trough puberty or conflict. It must be wonderful for a parent to get this deep gratitude from the adult kids after all the sacrifice. Makes me want to hug my mom and dad forever🥹
Also the songs instrumentals and vocals are soooo fun!
Typical German meal with big thank you to the influence of the Italian guest workers who came here and stayed. Best example that multi culture only makes everyone's live brighter! Dear germans, could you imagine our cuisine here without the influence of the Italians, Greeks or Turks,... ?
Greetings from Berlin 😎
Chinese, Japanese…: Nope.
🍕🍝🍋🌮🍱🥡🍣🥙🍨
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@@winterlinde5395 yes agree. I just it to be short, but there is much more to add 😉
My only child, my son, lives in Missouri. At the end of the month, I'm moving from Detroit to St. Louis to be near him. It's important to me.
I've listened to this song countless times and never once thought it was about a parent-child relationship but now that you mentioned it the tears won't stopp 😭
Mein Lieblingslied meiner Lieblingsband. Such a beautiful tribute. As a parent of an adult, I felt seen.
These lyrics always make me cry. There is so much sadness and truth in it.
Finally a reaction about the best song ever from AMK...👍
This song is pure goose bumps
ur reaction is exactly what i felt when hearing it the first time! I'm german and this song hits to the core
I have listened to this song probably a thousand times but your reaction brought tears to my eyes. Never felt the song and its meaning as much as i did now. (and I am german) beautiful feeling. Thank you!
The seemingly inconspicuous line "We've been to Prague, Paris and Vienna, to Brittany and Berlin but not to Copenhagen" has a special background. It was only years after the song was released that Henning May mentioned in passing in a podcast what it was all about:
His father used to take him to a different city every Christmas. They set off on Christmas Eve and spent Christmas together in a different city every year. This took them to Prague, Paris, Vienna, Brittany and Berlin. But on the way to Copenhagen, the train got stuck in the snow and they had to turn back to Cologne.
The whole song is very relatable for anyone who has parents. But I like the fact that at first only his father could understand the reference. That makes the song even more personal.
edit: Just saw that @Hannah-lc3nu alreay mentioned it earlier.
A big yes to album reactions!!!!
Their discography is a bit confusing if you try to find it just by googling, because they have recorded many of their songs several times, they have live records & EP:s etc. I was skimming through their discography when I was trying to decide which ones to buy, and ended up ordering Alles Nix Konkretes (2016), Schlagschatten (2018) and Es ist Abend und wir sitzen bei Mir (2023). They also made a covid album called 12 in 2020, but I didn't order it (yet) because it was reeeeaallly experimental & I have not quite wrapped my head around it yet. So, if I were you I would start with Alles Nix Konkretes & move forward from there. I enjoy all of their albums, and it's great to hear how they evolve through the years. But you'll see what I mean when you listen to those albums as a whole. I'd recommend the chronological order.
Also: Allex Nix Konkretes actually starts with this song, Oft Gefragt.
They need to make an album out of there Proberaumsessions 🤗
I love all their albums. I especially love '12'. The lyric video and their live 12 Konzert (3 videos) is exceptional and so beautiful.
This song always resonated with me. It perfectly encapsulates how I was in my School/College days and then the regret of not thinking about what it does to the person that always gave everything for you unconditionally, but being too scared to tell them and cause more hurt. Them being more worried about you then you yourself have been.
The feeling of having been an ungrateful brat to the person who just wants you to be well realizing how good they have been to you, while you realize in retrospective how badly you treated them in your youth.
it still gets you sometimes when you get caught unawares on the radio or so, even though it is now quite an old song x... In many ways the best album to react to is the lyrics video of '12', it is only 39 minutes long and created during Covid and very conceptual, showing you a different view of them as experimental musicians as well as getting a video (there are English subtitles, too) th-cam.com/video/3Zi0MYQK5k8/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared ....
In German the Words from this Song is hit me very deep, because a german word could be meaning more than one thing
Love how much you love this - and of course AMK is absolutely gorgeous 😊
I lost my dad very few days ago. It helps, hurts & makes me happy at the same time listening to this and seeing your reaction. I cry out of pain for that loss and out of joy for having him with me all my life. I can assure everybody, that is is allways the best decision to call (or better visit) the parents and tell them: I love you - just because! Thank you for that reaction. This brought some hard and some great feelings to me!!! This video came just the right way at the right time. 🙂
There is another german song (available as a powerfull live version with included engl. subtitels) It helped me a lot and I would swear that you would love it. Maybe you want to give it a chance, You will not regret it! This one: "Herbert Grönemeyer - Der Weg Live 2003 - Mensch Tour (Gelsenkirchen)[Subtitle]"
I am so incredibly sorry for your loss, my friend. You and your family will be in my prayers, I assure you. I’m glad something I did was able to bring you some glimmer of light to your day.
May your journey through grief be a strengthening experience and may your loved one’s memory be cherished forever.
@@walterooski Thank you so much. Isn't it strange? You do these recation videos. You do them for fun, maybe for some little income, for sharing your love for music or for many other reasons... and than, in this very moment in time someone for the other side of our globe watches your video coincidentally in the middle of the night, searching for a place to reflect his multiple feelings. And suddenly your video brings so much sense to one out of 8 billion people and is a little light in that night. I'm sure you have your own purposes and meanings for your videos. But now there is another. It's just a meaning/sense for me, but it is there right now! And this is good! I hope while realizing this, it brings you a little smile, like your video brought to me!
Keep calling your parents, telling them that you love them. I did so and it makes everything so much more easy to bear, because everything was said. It is a very hard decision to make, when the doctors tell you, that it is now up to you to decide, weather lots of medical machines should hold the rest of life in a body or not. I was not prepared for this. It is so hard to decide, that it is in his will, to shut the machines down and let him go his last way. But: He went in the knowledge that he did good, that there was nothing left to say. We hold his hands, told him he's free to go and that we don't hold him back. It hurts, beside beeing sure, that it was the best decision. My wife didn't had the chance to tell her dad, how much he meant to her in his last days and she didn't found the courage to tell him all the years before, when life was that normal life like it always has been. She struggled a lot with all these never told words, she now would like have said before... I really got you, when you told your audience: "Just call your parents - just because"!
One will never know what will happen. From one blink to another everything can chance and so it did here. My dad had fun with me and 2 days later he was bumped out of consciousness and never woke up again. We had 3 days left... It would have been to late, to tell him. So keep calling - just because!
In this case, I would translate 'Zu Hause, bist immer nur du' with: You are always my Home.
Best song from AMK and the thematically best video to a song ever!
I know that song, but I am all teary right now again
Beautiful song, I love it so much ❤
Henning May's mother died when he was young - he was raised by his dad. 'Sieben Jahre' may be the song about his loss.
I was so touched by your heartwarming reaction in the end .
You might like "Ozean" (Hennings Version) as well, it was my favorit heartfelt song of the evening, when I was at the AMK Konzert last Summer in Cologne. ❤
I’ve reacted to both! Feel free to check them out :)
@@walterooski sadly it is not shown on my TH-cam. Do you have a link?
He was alone with his father as a child and this is a song for him. „Oft gefragt“ means „often asked“.
So „zu Hause bist immer nur du“ means like „you are the only home I ve got.“
man i wish i could call my mom just once more
It's so moving how you get moved from amks music.
You have not yet listened to their best song (subjective opinion) yet.
Try: "Hinter klugen Sätzen" [Behind clever phrases]
There is an "father perspective Song" to this one. - th-cam.com/video/WBi6oxXcYaI/w-d-xo.html it's called "Wohin du gehst" (Where you go)
Beautiful❤
hy,
i´m from germany and today I found your reactions and enjoyed them so much, that i watched them for hours. I just discovered AnnenMayKantereit myself and loved them.
I would really be happy if you could give reactions to three other german bands.
1) Jennifer Rostock is a well known female fronted, german speaking rockband.
i would like to recommend different songs for different reasons.
- "I loved you bit i´ve choosen dispo" --> because of her great voice!
- " Hengstin" ( its a fantasy word it means stallion like a mare but the leader mare) --> because its the most different style but the most popular song and great
- " Baukräne" or " Himalaya" --> because of the lyrics
2) Emil Bulls is a also well known german but english speaking alternativ metalband
- "jaws of oblivion" --> is the most popular song
3) Guano Apes is a female fronted english speaking band. Please don´t watch live videos ;-)
- "Lords of the boards" --> is the second most popular
TIA
Pia
The line "Zu Hause bsit immer noch du" is kinda wrong in the translation. The meaning is more like "You are my home" in the meaning of mom or dad being the anchor the home the safe place :) Your are my home kinda way
If I randomly call my parents and tell them that I love them, they would call the police and start a hunt for a suicidle person.
I am pretty sure Hennig addresses his mother - she is his surrogate for a home.
it`s about his dad. his mother deceased long time ago.
The translation ist a little misleading. "At home it's always just you" should be something like "You're always my '(at) home' ". As you can also see in the last paragraph.
Your German sounds really good.
There is no word for Heimat in english. Heimat is different to home.
If you like them you might wanne check out the band Milliarden :)
❤️🔥🥹
please never take close-up shots again, it's just disgusting. Sorry, but no actually.