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Rammstein may be referring to Plato’s allegory of the cave, in which the philosopher ruminated on the nature of belief versus knowledge. Essentially, imagine yourself chained to the wall of a cave for your entire life, facing the blank wall. As a fire burns behind you, shadows cast themselves across the wall, but because you’re unaware of the fire’s existence, you perceive the shadows as the beings themselves, rather than a reflection of those beings. It’s a thought experiment that separates perception vs. reality, along with how individual perspective can dilute the truth of a situation.

With that reference in mind, «Zeit» is about the cyclical nature of humanity. In the «Zeit» video, the sands of time pour upon a group of blindfolded women who are giving birth. But the sands of time also swallow the members of Rammstein, perhaps depicting time as the bringer of both life and death. The sands of time also surround Rammstein’s caricature of the Grim Reaper, who can been seen holding the newborn children. Death is inevitable, thus the Reaper has us from the moment we’re born.