Nichts Als Horizonte Lyrics in English Santiano
Horizonte means 'horizon'. While it might seem like a common word, in the context of this song, it carries a profound sense of longing and endlessness.
The lyrics, "Nichts als Horizonte" (Nothing but horizons), paint a picture of being at sea with no land in sight, emphasizing a feeling of being lost and far from home. It's a powerful image that captures the song's theme of a long, arduous journey and the yearning for a destination.
"Nichts als Horizonte" is a song about being stuck in the middle of a long journey, with nothing to look at in any direction but the line where the sea meets the sky.
It opens in a grey, worn-down mood. Nobody on board is talking, time crawls along "heavy and leaden", and every day is exactly like the one before it. The singer looks up at the clouds hoping for some kind of sign, but the sky says nothing back.
The chorus is where the feeling gets its name. There is nothing but horizons, and the soul "sees no land", so the question becomes whether they will ever arrive at all. That endless rough blue expanse is beautiful and maddening at the same time, and it slowly drives the heart out of its senses.
Then the song lets some hope in. At some point this stretch of time will pass too, there will be a light at the end, the effort of all those hard days will pay off, and a good wind will carry them home. The catch is in the line that follows: until then, it is still nothing but horizons.
The last verse brings it back to the plain, tired truth of it. Day in and day out, so far from home, wondering when their luck will finally catch up with them again. Santiano build their songs around life at sea, and this one works just as well as a picture of any long stretch where the finish line is not in sight yet.
