BENZIN Lyrics in English Rammstein

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song BENZIN by Rammstein from German to English.
I need time
No heroin no alcohol no nicotine
Don't need help
No caffeine
But dynamite and turpentine
I need oil for gasoline
Explosive like kerosene
High octane and lead-free
A fuel like
Gasoline
Gasoline
Gasoline
Gasoline
Gasoline
Gasoline
Don't need a friend
No cocaine
Need neither doctor nor medicine
Need no woman just Vaseline
Some nitroglycerin
I need cash for gasoline
Explosive like kerosene
High octane and lead-free
A fuel like
Gasoline
Gasoline
Gasoline
Gasoline
Give me gasoline
It flows through my veins
It sleeps in my tears
It runs out my ears
Heart and kidneys are engines
Gasoline
If you want to part with something
Then you have to burn it
If you never want to see it again
Let it swim in gasoline
Gasoline
Gasoline
Gasoline
I need gasoline
Gasoline
Gasoline
Give me gasoline
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SONG MEANING

BENZIN is Rammstein’s roaring love letter to raw combustion. Instead of the usual vices – heroin, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine – the narrator craves only high-octane gasoline and a cocktail of dynamite, nitroglycerin, and terpentine. Fuel becomes his lifeblood: it “flows through my veins,” powers his “heart and kidneys like engines,” and promises an explosive rush no drug or relationship can match. The pounding riffs mirror the song’s imagery of engines revving, flames rising, and a man who literally runs on petrol.

Beneath the pyrotechnic bravado, the lyrics hint at a darker critique. Our modern world is addicted to energy, speed, and destruction, and the singer’s mantra “Gib mir Benzin” (“Give me gasoline”) exaggerates that obsession until it sounds almost monstrous. When he declares that anything you want to forget should be “swimming in Benzin,” the song challenges listeners to question how easily we burn through resources – and even memories – for the thrill of power. Equal parts anthem and warning, BENZIN turns the gas pump into a symbol of desire, danger, and the fiery heart of industrial metal itself.

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