Horizont translates to "horizon". While it might seem like a common word, its usage in this song is particularly evocative and inspiring.
Santiano, known for their maritime folk music, uses "Horizont" to symbolize boundless possibility and the journey towards a grand future. The lyrics "So weit der Horizont reicht" (As far as the horizon reaches) encourage listeners to pursue their dreams without limits, making it a powerful and motivating word in the context of the song's theme of seizing one's time and destiny.
"Das ist eure Zeit" is a rallying song, sung straight at a group of people who have worked a long time for one moment.
The verses lay out how far they have come. Everyone lives for their own dream, they stand together and trust each other blindly, and they have travelled to the edge of the world. Now it is now or never: they are almost there, so close to the goal, and Santiano tell them they were the ones who brought them here.
The chorus is the promise. This is your time. You can write stories, you can become legends, you can be heroes, and this will be a day that lasts forever. The last section turns it into an instruction: you know the way, so get up, go it together, and follow your goal as far as the horizon reaches.
It is a song about the moment just before something big, and about doing it as a group rather than alone.
Santiano is a German band from Schleswig-Holstein known for blending sea shanties, folk, and rock into a style their label calls shanty rock. The group was put together in 2011 by producer Hartmut Krech, who wanted to bring old maritime songs to a wider pop audience, and the band took its name from the classic sea shanty "Santiano," made famous in a 1961 French version by Hugues Aufray.
Their debut album, "Bis ans Ende der Welt," came out in 2012 and shot straight to number one on the German charts, kicking off a long run of hit albums built around themes of the sea, freedom, and adventure. Santiano mixes traditional shanties and folk covers with original songs, giving old maritime music a modern rock arrangement full of shouted choruses and driving rhythms.
Over the years the band has become one of Germany's most successful folk acts, picking up several Echo awards for folk music along the way. Their songs often explore big, universal feelings of longing, loss, and hope, set against the band's signature nautical imagery drawn from sailing and the sea.