From Zeit · 2022 · Track 3
Schwarz
«Black»
More from the album · Zeit
In context
Darkness as a refuge rather than a threat. Figures on the margins who only find room to exist once the sun goes down.
- Night
- Refuge
- Loneliness
- Origin
- The third 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
- “Schwarz” — black — appears here without the menacing charge it usually carries in the band's imagery. It is the same word used the other way round.
- What the band has said
- The band has not commented on the song.
- Live
- The sources consulted have no information on a single, an official video or a live history.
Our reading
It is almost the opposite of the usual reading: the night sets free instead of lying in wait. It contrasts day with night and gives the night the role of what allows existence, not of what hides.
The archive's interpretation, not an official account.
Night as shelter
The lyric treats darkness not as something threatening but as a source of comfort and pleasure. It contrasts day with night, touches on solitude, and describes a series of figures at the margins who only get room to exist once the sun goes down — night as something liberating rather than something to fear. It’s almost the opposite reading from what the word “black” usually carries in the band’s usual imagery.
Context
Third track on Zeit, recorded in 2020 at Studio La Fabrique, France, produced by Olsen Involtini. Released 29 April 2022. No information is available in the sources consulted about a single release, an official video, or live performance history.
Notes by Rammstein Colombia, for the purpose of analysis. The original lyrics belong to their authors and are not reproduced in this entry.