Blausicht 2

Song Meaning

The morning starts with a familiar, mundane disappointment: no milk for the coffee. This small lack immediately triggers a deeper, more existential yearning for a past state that never actually existed, a longing for something unnamed, vaguely defined as 'love and stuff, content and stuff.' The narrator acknowledges this persistent, twenty-year-old ache, but instead of succumbing to it, they choose an ambitious, almost defiant approach to life. Setting goals impossibly high is framed not as delusion, but as a strategic necessity: 'Trying the impossible to achieve the possible.' The English interlude introduces a striking metaphor of lobsters, suggesting a cycle of growth and painful renewal. This image powerfully conveys the idea that progress, while inevitable, comes at a cost. Each shedding of a 'shell' is difficult, yet the process is essential for continued existence and development, implying that discomfort is an inherent part of moving forward. The repeated phrase 'Aufstehen, rausgehen, Blausicht-Filter an' – 'Get up, go out, blue light filter on' – becomes an anthem of determined, albeit perhaps filtered, engagement with the world. This insistent repetition, especially after the introspective verses, suggests a conscious effort to push past internal dissatisfaction and the pain of growth. The 'blue light filter' might imply a way of moderating the harshness of reality or the intensity of one's own perceptions, a coping mechanism for facing the day despite the underlying, unfulfilled longing and the painful cycles of change.