While the lyrics to "Zeit" held some pretty deep, thought-provoking significance (read more about the song's meaning here), "Zick Zack" is quite the opposite — another example of Rammstein's more slapstick side with a crass overview of cosmetic surgery. We'll cut right to the chase — there's a lyrics about removing belly fat so "now the penis sees the sun again."
You can read the entire English translation to "Zick Zack" below.
Nicer, bigger, harder
Tighter, smoother, stronger
Your breasts are too small
Two pounds of silicone are fine
Cut sacks from the eyes
Mill the nose, suck fat off
We quickly delete two ribs
And insert a tube into your lips
In the cheeks, in the forehead
Botox just into your brain
Zigzag, zigzag, cut it off
Zigzag, zigzag, short and sweet
All sagging above the chin
Can be pulled in the neck
Implants in the face
And we lift your buttocks
Knife, swab, general anesthesia
Seven kilos of riding pants and
Belly fat in the bio bin
Now the penis sees the sun again
Zigzag, zigzag, cut it off
Tick tack, tick tack, you will be old
Your time is running out slowly
Who wants to be beautiful, must suffer
Cut it off, cut it out, cut ut away
Needle, thread, scissors, light
It can't go without pain
Tighten the cheeks, carve the cheekbones
Splash the waste into lips
Wrinkles rustle on the scalpel
Foreskin gone, very relevant
Isn't the woman in the man happy?
Anyway, everything is gone
Zigzag, zigzag, cut it off
Tick tack, tick tack, you will be old
Your time is running out slowly
Who wants to be beautiful, must suffer
Vanity is never modest
Needle, thread, scissors, light
It can't go without pain
Nicer, bigger, harder
Tighter, smoother, stronger