Mein schwarzes Blut und dein weißes Fleisch
ich werd immer geiler von deinem Gekreisch
der Angstschweiß da auf deiner weißen Stirn
hagelt in mein krankes Gehirn.
(c) Rammstein 1995
My black blood and your white flesh
I'm getting hornier from your screams
the cold sweat there on your white forehead
hails into my sick mind.
Weißes Fleisch (white flesh) is one of the songs from the album
Herzeleid, released by
Rammstein in 1995. Although Rammstein have recently started making openly political songs they were for a long time more subtle, possibly to avoid the popular misconception that they are
Nazis. It is hard to think of this song as anything but
social commentary.
I would like to say now, at the start, that this song is something that personally I find
disturbing, even though the issues raised are important ones. It is important to consider that the people this song talks about are victims themselves. They need to be helped, to stop things like this happening before there are
victims. I want it perfectly clear that I wholeheartedly support
punishment of these
criminals.
The song tells the story of a
paedophile, who snatches a child from a
playground and
tortures him/her (the song isn't specific) for his own pleasure. The song mentions that the father of the paedophile had the same
urges, and repeatedly references are made to being
sick. The
graphic descriptions used in this song can be quite
disturbing, especially in sections when
Till encourages the
audience to sing along, the effect being
a chorus of voices shouting about paedophillia, in the voices of people who are having the times of their lives.
This song was no doubt met with a very disapproving reaction in
German speaking countries, but this is not the song that Rammstein were worried about. That honour falls to “
Heirate mich” (“Marry me”), a song about a widower who exhumes the body of his wife after a year of loneliness. This song was actually translated into French for the lyric booklet, so as to deter the casual reader.
Weißes Fleisch is an average quality Rammstein song, but one that makes you think about this issue seriously.
Paedophillia is a very real problem, and one which must be dealt with immediately. The usual reaction is
violence, even
mob justice, but this is not practical in the long term. We as a society must strive to eliminate these
subversive elements through means other than locking people up or
execution.
As this song reminds us, paedophilic tendencies are not developed by choice, they are
inculated into us by our environment. In this song it appears that a large cause of this would be
abuse from his father, which would have been a severely
traumatic experience.