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    no offense, but if you have to use webtranslaters to translate something, dont do it, translaters can be astoundingly misleading and its better if you can actually speak the language fluently yourself

    'feuer frei' though it does litterally mean 'fire free' it's used just like our phrase 'fire at will' and thus it's normally translated as such

    getadelt wird wer scherzen kennt

    accused becomes he who knows pain

    geadelt ist wer schmerzen kennt

    loved is he who knows pain, geadelt litterally means 'treated nicely'

    gefährlich ist wer scherzen kennt

    dangerous is he who knows pain

    funkenstoß

    this one ppl are always asking about bc its a made up word, its commonly translated as 'shower of sparks'

    as for the song meaning, its obvious that its talking about gunfire and hell, but the song also seems to be about what happens to these ppl, you can see this in my translations of some of the lines, moving from the person being attacked for something that someone else viewed as wrong, and then they are loved and treated nicely bc of what they went through, then they just love their minds bc of their experience and become dangerous, and another line:

    mit feuer das vom leben trennt

    with fire that runs from life

    fire is commonly used to symbolize hatred and anger that is devouring the person, someone who is blinded by rage, this makes me thing that this person is going on a blind rage and bc of the evil acted upon him he himself becomes evil and acts evil upon other people, possibly the ones who made him that way

    ShadowSoulon December 23, 2006   Link

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