☝️ Key Points
- The song describes the emotional highs and lows in the duration of a love.
- The recurring chorus 'This tingling in the stomach that you never forget' symbolizes the excitement and happiness of the beginning of love.
- The later phase of the relationship is characterized by waning passion and routine. Love is compared to a pair of 'black shoes' waiting to be buried.
- The song addresses the pain and difficulty of coming to terms with the loss of the initial passion, and emphasizes that love doesn't simply disappear, but reaches a 'freezing point'.
- It ends with hope for a rekindling of the 'tingling in the stomach' and expresses the desire to bring back passion and excitement into the relationship.
Interpretation
The song 'Kribbeln im Bauch' by
Pe Werner describes the emotional highs and lows of a long-term relationship. The recurring refrain 'This tingling in the stomach, that you never forget' describes the feeling of the initial phase of love, the excitement and happiness one feels when freshly in love. It is compared to the feeling of eating too many fizzy sweets and the stomach bubbling with excitement and joy.
Pe Werner then talks about the later phase of a relationship where the passion fades and the partners become accustomed to each other. She describes love as a pair of 'black shoes' that are in the cellar waiting to be buried, and the relationship as something that is 'stale and standing out'.
The singer also speaks of the pain and difficulty of coming to terms with the loss of the initial passion. She emphasizes that love doesn't simply disappear, but that the relationship has reached a 'freezing point' that she can't get used to.
The song ends with the hope of experiencing the 'kribbeln im Bauch' again, which reminds them of the initial phase of the relationship and which they both miss. It expresses the desire to bring back the passion and excitement into the relationship.