Mein Teil

This song is about canibalism

i concur

It was about this maniac who killed and ate people in front of a webcam and put it on the internet.

Denn du bist was du isst, und ihr wisst was es ist. Because you are what you eat and you know what it is

^ The man was Armin Meiwes

From a news report:

"Meiwes told the court, repeating much of his testimony from his first trial, that he had severed Brandes's penis at his request and that both had tried to eat it, without success. Brandes steadily lost more blood and finally dropped unconscious, at which point Meiwes said he decided to pray. "I didn't know whether I should pray to the devil or to God," said Meiwes, who appeared relaxed and eager to tell his version of events. Believing his victim to be dead, he said, he plunged a knife into his neck. Only when he later saw his videotape of the crime did he realize that Brandes had still been faintly breathing."

This would explain the last verse perfectly, I think...Also, it was reported that Meiwes was ignored by his father during childhood, and yearned for a younger brother to eat, thus bonding the two together. This sense of loneliness perfectly fits the last verse...Brilliant song, and one can tell Rammstein certainly did their homework on this one. ^-^

i haven't seen the video clips, but to me anyway, i didn't think it was so much to do with cannabalism as with, umm.. a blow-job.

i mean, he is definitely referring to cannabalism. but i think there is a lot of sexual imagery too, for example "soft parts and even HARD ones are on the menu" and even "my part".. and also the cry ascending to heaven and dead angel parts falling on his innocence. i just think underneath he's drawing a comparison.

oh and one more thing, "my part" is german slang for "penis" and "weichteile" means 'genitals'.. so yes, perhaps a reference to the fact that the man who was eaten first asked to have his penis cut off and eaten first.

good song.

This song is in fact about a cannibal named Armin Meiwes 42-year-old computer technician in Hesse, Germany, killed, dismembered and ate 43-year-old microchip engineer Bernd Juergen Brandes. While Brandes was still alive, the two dined on parts of his flesh together, then Meiwes stabbed him to death. He video taped himself eating them but the police won't let anyone but the government see the tape of the brutal Devouration.