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Rammstein have announced their new album, 'Zeit'
Following three years after their untitled album, their eighth full-length is set for release on 29th April, preceded by the title track.
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'Weit weg' tracks a figure pressed against a window, watching a woman undress in a lit room across the way. He is close enough to see everything, yet separated by glass and distance; the song holds this paradox in its title and refrain, collapsing proximity and remoteness into a single breath. Rammstein build the tension through restraint, the lyrics moving from voyeuristic observation to something more abstract: a man standing at a window ledge with "a sun in his hand", the image shifting between the literal and the hallucinatory. The refrain locks the contradiction tight. "So nah / So weit weg von dir" (so close / so far from you) repeats until the distinction between observer and observed, between desire and its object, begins to blur. By the final verses, the perspective fractures; the song moves from third person to first, from watching to being watched, from a specific scene to something dreamlike and untethered. The moonlight and stolen sunlight blur the boundaries further, until closeness and distance become indistinguishable.
"Weit weg" is a track by Rammstein, from the album Rammstein, released 29th April 1994. The track is 4:21 long. It's filed under Metal. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Rammstein.
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