Spring Nicht
A haunting, anthem of police sirens introduces the mood of the enchanting video "Spring Nicht", a song by the exploding band Tokio Hotel, musicians from Germany who have a taste for knowing how frightening suicide really can be.
The camera pans across the skyline of a large city, filled with high-rises, perfect launching pads for a depressed teenager who believes the world has met its darkest point. In the video, it reflects this, showing the night and how it is full of wicked people doing wicked deeds, such as robbing a homeless man or wrestling with each other in the streets, paying no attention to the young man on the edge fifty feet above their heads.
Just as the music starts, the beats themselves are haunting, guitar and bass parts in perfect harmony. Just a couple seconds later, Bill Kaulitz walks into the screen, oblivious to the fact that a few men are robbing a store and some other people are harassing a homeless man, sending off signals that this Bill has a different purpose rather than saving someone else this evening. He walks silently as the lyrics pass by, even more powerful than before, to the scene of yellow police tape and ambulances, blocking off the area where...another Bill? is supposedly going to jump.
As the video progresses, we realize that there is more than one Bill, the one atop the roof, and another one, with both feet on the ground, looking up, despair in both their eyes. A tear falls from the roof where the first Bill has seemingly to have lost all traces of hope, love, and meaning of life. Viewer can feel the tension growing as we keep wondering Will he jump? Will he jump? to ourselves, watching as the Bill in the black leather jacket, trying to prevent the man about to attempt suicide, sings the words to him, trying to convince him to spring nicht, spring nicht.
He races up the stairs, the music now pounding, sloshing through the rain water, until he slows down near the edge, near the second Bill, his face in clear desperation. The two versions look at each other, sharing a conscience to spring nicht, spring nicht. But as the Bill on the edge jumps down, we see that the Bill in the black jacket was a hoax, and disappears as the suicidal Bill walks away, realizing that the Bill in the jacket's purpose was to save the suicide, and ultimately, save himself from self- destruction. But there is still a Bill standing on the ledge, and as his body crumples in surrender down to the ground, the music begins to end, showing the tear that had fallen comes back and reverses the sorrow that had once been there.
The last line is the one line that has touched millions of Tokio Hotel fans across the globe, with Bill singing, "Spring ich für dich," which in English means, "I'll jump for you". A very powerful lyric, which as many have interpreted as, "I love you", will forever be imprinted on the hearts of those still chanting the words to "Spring Nicht".
