Das Schicksal hat mich angelacht und mir ein Geschenk gemacht Warf mich auf einen warmen Stern Der Haut so nah dem Auge fern Ich nehm mein Schicksal in die Hand Mein Verlangen ist bemannt Wo das süße Wasser stirbt weil es sich im Salz verdirbt trag ich den kleinen Prinz im Sinn Ein König ohne Königin Wenn sich an mir ein Weib verirrt dann ist die helle Welt verwirrt Mann gegen Mann Meine Haut gehört den Herren Mann gegen Mann Gleich und Gleich gesellt sich gern Mann gegen Mann Ich bin der Diener zweier Herren Mann gegen Mann Gleich und Gleich gesellt sich gern Ich bin die Ecke aller Räume Ich bin der Schatten aller Bäume In meiner Kette fehlt kein Glied wenn die Lust von hinten zieht Mein Geschlecht schimpft mich Verräter Ich bin der Alptraum aller Väter Mann gegen Mann Meine Haut gehört den Herren Mann gegen Mann Gleich und Gleich gesellt sich gern Mann gegen Mann Doch friert mein Herz an manchen Tagen Mann gegen Mann Kalte Zungen die da schlagen Schwulah Mich interessiert kein Gleichgewicht Mir scheint die Sonne ins Gesicht Doch friert mein Herz an manchen Tagen Kalte Zungen die da schlagen Schwulah Mann gaygen Mann |
Destiny smiled on me and gave me a present Threw me on a warm star So close to the skin, so far from the eye I take my destiny in my own hands My desire is manned Where the fresh water dies because it taints itself in salt I keep the Little Prince in mind A king without a queen When a woman is mistaken about me then the bright world is confused Man against man My skin belongs to the gentlemen Man against man Birds of a feather flock together Man against man I am the servant of two masters Man against man Birds of a feather flock together I am the corner of all rooms I am the shadow of all trees No link is missing in my chain when lust pulls from behind My sex calls me a traitor I am the nightmare of all fathers Man against man My skin belongs to the gentlemen Man against man Birds of a feather flock together Man against man But my heart freezes on some days Man against man Cold tongues that beat there Faggot! I'm not interested in balance The sun shines in my face But my heart freezes on some days Cold tongues that beat there Faggot! Man gay for man |
“Mann gegen Mann” (Man against man) is a song about the benefits of homosexuality, however all band members are heterosexual. The song is simply about the subject of homosexuality and seems to avoid taking sides. This song is the third single from Rosenrot. Till repeatedly screams “Schwuler” (sung as “Schwulah”, concatenating an “ah” suffix equivalent to a scream “Aaahh!” In English it would be something like saying,”Playa’.”) in the background, which is a derogatory German equivalent to the English word “faggot”.
faggots are a heresy to to progress
No, insecure little autistic fuccbois who try to feel better about their failure as person by insulting groups of people better than themselves are.
“Schwuler” is NOT a derogatory term at all omfg. im german and this pisses me off? it’s simply the german word for a gay person, coming from the adjective “schwul” which means gay. “Schwuchtel” word be the derogatory term which could be translated as faggot but it’s not used in this song. please fucking fix this
also what’s with this “””Schwulah””” nonsense i’m laughing so much
I agree with everyone on this board saying the this is Not and Anti-Gay song!
I’ll also add how awesome that is to see, given this translation.
I have it on authority that the word “Schwulah” does not mean what our culture translates it to. The presentation of footnotes put me on a path to ask my foreign exchange student (German by the way) (I host kids to have an American experience.)
He told me out right ‘that word just means gay.’ As if to just say my friend is Schwulah. My friend is gay. No big deal to them.
Our English has a hate built into it as readers and as translators.
This song is about how straight society has no idea about the monster they are taunting.
Thus the luciferian reference, you make us Devils, we are just human.
Also notice if you watch the video, he gets extremely angry while shouting Schwulah and a serpent tongue slips from his mouth,
It refers to the end of the last bridge or verse referring to cold tongues.
Reminding us that we’re gay, really, still, in this age?
BALLS!!!!!
Nice video…So good to see them delve into this area of reality that exists in most real men. So many people don’t realize how many men desire, experiment or practice homosexuality as an alternative sexual release as men are far more sexual than women and share the same understanding when it comes to what a man needs or wants sexually.. Benefits without the hassles…Go testosterone~!!!
You’re just wrong
This song is about how being gay is okay, despite what others say.
“Mich interessiert kein Gleichgewicht
Mir scheint die Sonne ins Gesicht”
or
“My interest is not in balance,
for the sun shines on my face”
comes to mean, to me at least, that giving others comfort is not his goal, since he feels “warm” or “comfortable” where he is, right now.
‘Schwuler’ is NOT in itself a derogatory term.
Just as ‘Faggot’ wasnt a derogatory term, but had its meaning twisted.
But my heart freezes on some days
Cold tongues that beat there
Faggot!
i don’t understand the confusion, his heart freezes on some days when a person with a cold tongue pierces his heart by calling him a faggot.
definately identifying with not insulting gay people
I sometimes wonder why I listen to them… but then I remember… they’re Rammstein, why the hell not?
I wouldn’t say they’re trying not to take sides here… rather, I’d say they make out being gay as a gift that the world regards as a curse.
damn i love the way R+ writes :), Till is a genius!
@Alejandro
I do speak German and who’re you calling a fool ?
And to all of you thinking this song it’s agaisnt gays you couldn’t be more wrong.
He’s calling the other gay because it means they are scarred of fighting you fools! in german that means something like “you are a coward or you don’t have the guts to fight with me”
If you spoke german you would understand.
Correct the lyrics,schwulah doesn’t mean faggot! that is wrong schwulah means gay-ah like playa instead of player in english.
Please correct them,they are wrong.
The song is amazing,needless to say it’s Rammstein so everything is awesome.
Yes AnoNY and Maria, I 100% agree with both of you 🙂 that’s exacly how I interpreted that part. They are calling him a ‘fag’ again, and then he get’s like ‘Aaaaaaaah stop calling me a fag, I’m perfecly happy the way I am so leave me alone!’. It literaly drives him crazy when they call him a fag. It is a nasty word in my opinion. It’s kinda the feeling I get when people are telling me for the one billion’th time that I look younger then I am :p Then I’m like Aaaaaaaaah, I know I do, get over it!’ I just adoooore this song, so powerfull and bombastic (does that word exist in the english language?)and I yell along with it in the car 🙂 One time someone saw me driving along while I was ‘singing’ along, and they later asked me why I was so angry in my car 😀 cracked me up!! ^^ I was like no dude, just singing along with Rammstein :p
Maria said:
“This is NOT an anti-gay song, more an anti-homophobic song.”
That seems right. Notice how the yelling of “Faggot” comes right after he is saying that “Cold tongues” are beating on him. It seems that he is not yelling “Faggot,” but rather that some others (homophobes) are yelling it and it is freezing his heart.
I loved this song before I knew what the words meant, and now I like it even more!
Yea exactly, me too!!
Doch friert mein Herz an manchen Tagen
However, my heart freezes some days
Kalte Zungen die da schlagen, Schwule !
Cold tongues that lash out, faggot !
So, even though the gay man is very happy and comfortable in his sexuality, the words that people with cold tongues lash out( as in not knowing how much it can hurt what they scream at him)hurt him like a whip.
This is NOT an anti-gay song, more an anti-homophobic song.
Its not “against” homosexuality, per se, but probably a deeper understanding of the inner torment that homosexuality brings upon gay people. Social as well as personal pressure creates a divided “secret” side that struggles with the self. Notice the “anguish/anger” (then again, it IS Till!) in his expressions…and don’t forget the demon…
yeah i got it,but if u know,lots of rammstein songs are confusing,like this! and i say they just put across about something.in this song about gay or homophobia as u said.
i think lots of rammstein songs are like this,PUT ACROSS ABOUT SOMETHING! :d
tnx for UR answer rammsteinskyes,anyway…:d
love this song..rammstein fuggen kicks ass!!
How can you say they are against homosexuality because of one word, when the entire song is about being gay?
e.g. “I love being gay I love it It’s pretty cool, faggot, I love it.”
Maybe a bit extreme, but you get the point. Also, have you seen the video? Nobody against homosexuality would even dare to glance at it much less star in it. lol
HAHAHAHA oh i know right? this debate would be over if some people just watched the MV hahahaha
how can i be more c;ear !!! This song is AGAINST people who hate gays…AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA. If you don’t understand that…I can’t help 🙂
i really dont know what are u saying RAmmskyes
Some of you are horrible fans xD
This song is about the life of a gay man, and it’s against homophobia…
Neon, if you know/knew Rammstein at all or even just a little bit, you would know you are wrong man…
RAMMSTEIN = LIVE AND LET LIVE
yeah i think it is compeletly against homosexuality (gay & lesbian) because it says : schwulah! aaaaaaaah!
I seen the music video. It’s pretty smexy XD remember kiddies, it’s only gay if you make eye contact with the other man! Only Rammstein has the balls to make a video like that
i think this song was written against to gays
by the way schwul means fag
you can get song’s mean from this word
Yeah, this song has no ambiguities when it comes to the benefits of homosexuality. As said before, Rammstein doesn’t seem to take sides on the matter, they’re just commentating.
where are the benefits?!?!?!?!
““Mann gegen Mann” (Man against man) is a song about the benefits of homosexuality”
Faggot? Schwulah means gay-Ah!
“when lust pulls from behind” He he 🙂
Only R+ would have the balls to write a song like this, and even more so, shoot a video like this !!! I’m a HUGE RAMMSTEIN Fan and the video is a bit too much even for me. You have to know that R+ are all about shocking and pushing back the line.
Unforunately he is wearing, as Wikipedia puts it “what can best be described as latex panties”. Hahaha.
omg i just cant stop listening that song!
Has anybody seen the video? xD
I know it’s hard to find, ’cause I think youtube found it to be “too much”.
Here’s a link if you want to see it – everyone except till is naked.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/591438/mann_gegen_mann_video/
well sed Dis
mann gegen mann is a cool song
haha lol
LOL that is true! I can do the same! Ich liebe Rammstein! The funny thing is that I am a german-american and speak german but I never knew the word faggot in german! lol
i have nothing to say but awsum now i can call people in my class that annoy me a faggot in german
This song is amazing,
it's great they wrote a song about this topic,
even if they are heterosexual.
Edward, it means faggot in the vulgar. It's slang. Fag means a cigarette in the UK where bummer is a man looking for gay sex. If one were to say I'm bummin in the US, obviously it means you're down, in the UK however it means trolling for gay sex. Schwulah is faggot for rude usage, Schwule is fag or gay [gay proper]. Danke.
Schwulah (Schwule-ah)= gay-ah = “the nightmare of all fathers”! 😉
this stuff needs to be written about. i love that they have the sand to speak about what many suppress…read rene girard's "violence and the sacred".
Awesome comment. Thank you.
Why do they write this stuff?
Why would they not write this stuff?
MORGENSTERN IS AMAZING!!!
yeah, really. The music is something to behold, but these dudes are just twisted freaks, it seems.
Schwulah does not mean faggot. It says gay-ah schwul=gay
Dude…. read below the lyrics it gives an explanation…
” Till repeatedly screams “Schwuler” (sung as “Schwulah”, concatenating an “ah” suffix equivalent to a scream “Aaahh!” In English it would be something like saying,”Playa’.”) in the background, which is a derogatory German equivalent to the English word “faggot”.”
rammstein lyrics are amazin! x