anonymous August 27th, 2008 03:58PM  

This song is about how most straight men hate and persecute gay men...mann gegen mann can be translated as on like sex (girl on girl sex) and on as in against like man vs man...so that guy who everyone dissed for sayin man vs man is slightly correct

alptraumdiekindheit May 29th, 2009 10:42PM  

mann gegen mann isn't technically man on man or man vs man. gegen ist against. so its man against man. but, honestly, all three of these translations gather the same meaning. i think this song could be homophobia and homophillia. this song means different things to different people, also, not 12 people know this song, in fact, rammstein is popular worldwide, had you not noticed. though, truthfully, the song title doesn't interpret the song. so why argue over it?

anonymous June 3rd, 2009 03:28PM  

I think this song is telling the idiotic ideals of most homophobic men I think its a bad ass song and I'm a heterosexual (straight ) male in a good relationship

anonymous September 17th, 2009 11:16PM  

This song is about both point of views to the entire topic of homosexuality. Not only homophobic standpoints are named ("Wo das süße Wasser stirbt/where the fresh water dies" is an lyrical circumscription for the sin of onan, wich by definition as regards gays having sex. In the catholic interpretation of the bible it comes out the same, as you can see at their point of view to condoms).

Even the homophil poin of view is mentioned:
"Das Schicksal hat mich angelacht - the fate smiled at me"
"Und mir in Geschenk gemacht - and made a present to me"
"Warf mich auf einen warmen Stern - threw me on a warm star"

have fun listening to this song. Its one of my favorite rammstein-songs.


regards aus Dortmund/NRW/Germany