From Zeit · 2022 · Track 7
Meine Tränen
«My Tears»
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In context
An adult son and his mother: dependence without affection, and a cycle of pain passed from one generation to the next.
- Mother and son
- Grief
- Emotional inheritance
- Origin
- The seventh track on “Zeit”, recorded in 2020 at Studio La Fabrique (France) with Olsen Involtini producing. It came out on 29 April 2022.
- The German key
- It closes on the idea that a man is only allowed to cry when his mother dies — a formula that sounds in German like an inherited sentence, not a personal observation.
- What the band has said
- The band has not commented on the song.
- Live
- It was never a single; the sources consulted have no record of an official video or of live performances.
Our reading
That final line works as a measure: how long it takes for the cycle to break, if it ever does.
The archive's interpretation, not an official account.
What you’re not allowed to cry over
The lyric describes the relationship between a grown son and his mother: emotional dependency, physical presence without real affection, and a cycle of pain that passes from one generation to the next. It closes on an idea that sums up everything before it: that a man is only allowed to cry when his mother dies — a way of measuring how long it takes for that cycle to break, if it ever does.
Context
Seventh track on Zeit, recorded in 2020 at Studio La Fabrique, France, produced by Olsen Involtini. Released 29 April 2022. It was never a single; there is no record of an official video or live performances in the sources consulted.
Notes by Rammstein Colombia, for the purpose of analysis. The original lyrics belong to their authors and are not reproduced in this entry.