Wer weiß das schonLyrics, English Translation & Meaning

This song is essentially a portrait of someone trapped in a one-sided relationship with existence itself. The central idea is devastatingly simple: the narrator loves life, loves the sun, reaches toward warmth and meaning, but none of it loves him back. Life kicks him down, the sun burns rather than nourishes, and the future stretches out dark with no light in sight. It reads like a confession from someone who keeps showing up for the world only to be rejected by it over and over again.

What makes it particularly heavy is the imagery around misfortune as a living, predatory thing. Unhappiness doesn't just linger, it drinks his tears, jumps into his blood, devours his dreams and feeds itself well on them. That's a striking way to describe depression or chronic suffering, the sense that your own pain has become a parasite that sustains itself off everything you have left. The opening lines about a bare soul and standing without skin suggest total vulnerability, and the repeated phrase "sieh dich an" (look at yourself) functions almost like a cruel mirror being held up, an internal voice or an external one forcing the narrator to confront how exposed and hollowed out he really is.

The emotional tone sits in that particular Lindemann space where there's no catharsis waiting at the end. He runs, he tries to escape, but misfortune always catches back up. Happiness leaves, the heart leaves, everything leaves, and only bad luck stays and takes a bow. It's not quite nihilism because the love for life is still genuinely there, which almost makes it worse. It's the grief of someone who wants to belong to something beautiful and just can't get there.