You see him creeping around the church
For a year he's been alone
Sorrow took all his senses away
Every night he sleeps beside her grave

There by the bells there is a stone
I'm the only one who can read it
And on the fence is the red rooster
Who once had been in your heart
Fear driven on this fence
I go digging every night
To see what remained
From the face that smiled for me

There by the bells I'm spending the night
There among snails a lonely animal
During the day I run after the night
You escape me for the second time

Marry me

I'm digging deep with my hands
To find what I missed so much
And the moon in its most beautiful dress
I've kissed your cold lips
I embrace you tenderly
But your skin tears off like paper
And parts are falling off of you
You escape me for the second time

There by the bells I'm spend the night
There amongs snails a lonely animal
During the day I run after the night
You escape me a second time

Marry me

So I take what remained of you
The night is hot and we are stripped
To curse the rooster who greets the morning
I have his head hacked off


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    The 'red rooster' (roter Hahn) is an old German metaphor for fire. To 'put the red rooster onto someone's roof' means to burn down his house, as exemplified in a song about the peasant revolts in the early sixteenth century (the song was actually written after the First World War and later sung by far left and far right groups):

    "Spieß voran, drauf und dran, setzt auf's Klosterdach den roten Hahn!"

    (something like 'Up your spears, put the red rooster on the monastery roof').

    In the Rammstein song, the rooster obviously symbolizes the morning and life. The 'red rooster' (i.e. fire) creates a stark contrast to the cold of the nightly graveyard, the snails, etc.

    I must say that I absolutely hate this song, it is extreme even by Rammstein standards.

    FlorianGeyeron November 25, 2011   Link

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