Ausmachst comes from the verb "ausmachen", which can have several meanings, but in this context, it means "to bother" or "to matter". It's an interesting word because its meaning shifts significantly depending on the context.
In the song, the line "Dass du mir gar nichts mehr ausmachst" translates to "That you don't bother me at all anymore" or "That you don't matter to me at all anymore." It perfectly captures the singer's struggle to convince herself that she's over her past love, making it a key emotional point in the lyrics.
LEA keeps circling back to someone she's trying to quit. She opens with the line she'll repeat all song, "Immer wieder denk' ich / Immer wieder an dich" [I keep thinking, always to you], then lists the small tests she keeps failing: walking past his front door without checking his window, scrolling through old photos and pretending they don't do anything to her. "Ich hab' gedacht, ich hab's geschafft / Dass du mir gar nichts mehr ausmachst" [I thought I'd done it, that you don't matter to me anymore], she sings, right before the chorus proves her wrong again.
The bridge names the trick she's using on herself: "Wo keine Liebe ist / Verpasst man auch nichts" [Where there is no love, you don't miss anything either]. Talk yourself into feeling nothing and the loss can't reach you. It doesn't work; the last thing she sings is "Immer wieder an dich" [Always to you], same as the first.
LEA (born Lea-Marie Becker) is a German singer-songwriter from Kassel, known for her warm, piano-driven pop and her honest, diary-like lyrics. She grew up in a musical home, started playing piano at six, and was writing her own songs by the age of eleven, before studying music in Hannover and playing the city's bars at night.
Her breakthrough came in 2016, when she toured as a backing singer for Mark Forster and released her debut album Vakuum. She has since become one of Germany's most-streamed pop artists, and Zu Dir, co-written with Mark Forster and released on her 2019 album Zwischen den Zeilen, is one of her best-loved songs. LEA has been based in Berlin since 2018.