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Der Untermensch Lyrics
[a. Socioparasite]
Hey you on public assistance
Why don't you get a job?
Sell some dope and buy some pride
It's the only thing you couldn't rob
Socioparasite
Socioparasite
How does it feel to live for free?
Get off society's back
Skells like you allowed to live
You wonder why we're taxed
Socioparasite
Socioparasite
[b. Waste of Life]
Waste of life
You're a waste of life
Getting fucked up on Classon Avenue
Smoking crack and drinking booze
Spike in your arm
No money for food
But there's plenty of gas in your BMW
There's a dopewhore waiting at home
Dealing your shit on the chemophone
Poor Tawana gets born with a birth defect
But it only increases your welfare check
Been doing some thinking and I have an answer
To arrest the spreading cancer
Send you back to where you came from
Get the fuck rid of you (sub)human scum
If you don't pay taxes you shouldn't vote
So get in line and get back on the boat
I'd love to tear down all those projects
Kiss my ass home relief reject
Waste of life
You're a waste of life
Waste of life
You're a waste of life
Why don't you get a job?
Sell some dope and buy some pride
It's the only thing you couldn't rob
Socioparasite
Get off society's back
Skells like you allowed to live
You wonder why we're taxed
Socioparasite
You're a waste of life
Smoking crack and drinking booze
Spike in your arm
No money for food
But there's plenty of gas in your BMW
Dealing your shit on the chemophone
Poor Tawana gets born with a birth defect
But it only increases your welfare check
To arrest the spreading cancer
Send you back to where you came from
Get the fuck rid of you (sub)human scum
So get in line and get back on the boat
I'd love to tear down all those projects
Kiss my ass home relief reject
You're a waste of life
Waste of life
You're a waste of life
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silverdew On Oct 29, 2004
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There's no denying the racist content in this song. However, with Peter Steele, you have to take it with a pinch of salt.
Considerated the theme of the other songs of this album, I don't think Steele is angry against people on pubblic assistance becouse of racism or political reasons. I read that Steele wrote the lyrics of the album after the end of a relation. In the previous song (Unsuccessfully Coping etc...) it's obvious he should enormously depend on this relation. He is angry with the people of the song only becouse he is angry with himself and sees in them his own defect: dependence. References at drug addiction are also present and I think it's not casual.
The best take on the song right there.
The best take on the song right there.
"Der Untermensch" means "the lower person", the opposite of "Der Ubermensch" ("the higher person") a term which I think was coined by Kafka to describe the great few who can actually make it through life. The title makes sense then, as the song is describing the scum of society. Pretty clever.
Germany called slavic people "untermensch" during WWII too, also.
Germany called slavic people "untermensch" during WWII too, also.
@freakishfae Try to get some education. Kafka hat nothing to do with Nietzsches concept of Übermensch. And Nietzsches concept had nothing to do with the Nazi concept. Nietzsche did not use the word "Untermensch". So the title can really only interpreted as a reference to the racist concept although I don't think this song is racist. Pete later apologized for this song. I guess mostly because of the title. Nietzsche was never referring to scum of society. It was more about the people who follow and the people who lead within one society to put it at its simplest. Nietzsches...
@freakishfae Try to get some education. Kafka hat nothing to do with Nietzsches concept of Übermensch. And Nietzsches concept had nothing to do with the Nazi concept. Nietzsche did not use the word "Untermensch". So the title can really only interpreted as a reference to the racist concept although I don't think this song is racist. Pete later apologized for this song. I guess mostly because of the title. Nietzsche was never referring to scum of society. It was more about the people who follow and the people who lead within one society to put it at its simplest. Nietzsches "last human" (not subhuman) can get along very well. He represents the vast majority of a society, that lives a good life seeking security, avoiding conflicts, being fastidious, so it's basically all of us - the victims of society that are not suffering.
Name one line in this song that implies racism against anyone. There isn't.
When you call a human being something other than human, it is a mandate for murder. The fact that so many are giving him a pass is really revealing, isn't it... Subhumans is what the nazis called Jews, Slavs, Romani, the disabled, gays, and anyone else who wasn't a western European christian. When you call someone on disability/welfare "scum", you sound just like a brownshirt. Saying "Peter Steele wasn't racist, because he had a Jewish friend", is exactly like saying, "I'm not racist. I have a black friend"...
@azhag10839 You are right, racist men even marry black women and see them as their house slaves. But as Pete was slavic, a drug addict, outcast and full of self-hate and also seeing the context of the whole album, I think the song expressed his self-hate and is a little ironic, as of course it is the US society that is sick and not the individuals and sending everyone home (apart from the native indians) would be a solution, but is not a very realistic solution to solve the problems of the US society. By the way later in his...
@azhag10839 You are right, racist men even marry black women and see them as their house slaves. But as Pete was slavic, a drug addict, outcast and full of self-hate and also seeing the context of the whole album, I think the song expressed his self-hate and is a little ironic, as of course it is the US society that is sick and not the individuals and sending everyone home (apart from the native indians) would be a solution, but is not a very realistic solution to solve the problems of the US society. By the way later in his life he apologized only for this song and he described Mother Theresa as the absolute good and Hitler as the absolute evil. Sounds neither racist nor fascist.
@azhag10839 Apart from apologizing he wrote "kill all the white people" to make clear that he is not a racist.
@azhag10839 Apart from apologizing he wrote "kill all the white people" to make clear that he is not a racist.
No it isn't. I think the meaning is pretty obvious.
Yeah. The song isn't racist at all. I know plenty of white people called Tawana who should go back where they came from (merry old England).
At the same time this song may be highly ironic which is personally what I think.
Maybe he accidently took a flight to the South and was inspired!
I'm more worried about the corporations that take millions in "Corporate Welfare". Pillsbury got $12 Million to promote the Doughboy in Indonesia! But I think there are lot of people that don't need it either. There is a woman that comes into the store I work at that gets $3,000 in food stamps every month. She lives alone, has no kids, but is part retarded, so I guess she needs to eat that much worth of food or something.
This isn't fucking racist it's the truth he hated social scum
oh just so happens most social scum isn't white (NOW THAT'S FUCKING RACIST) LOL.
You are being disingenuous when you deny that this song takes a positive, pro-White racist's stance. That is exactly what it is, and it is done flawlessly. IYDKMIGTHTKY (Gimme dat) is another fine piece of neo-hate recruiting material. What Peter was trying to accomplish with the music was for you, the listener, to become freed; from a self-imposed exile. Each of us goes for the ride, some never come back, others come back, feeling alive again, with a sense of urgency to do your best at managing your family. He found in me one convert.
You are being disingenuous when you deny that this song takes a positive, pro-White racist's stance. That is exactly what it is, and it is done flawlessly. IYDKMIGTHTKY (Gimme dat) is another fine piece of neo-hate recruiting material. What Peter was trying to accomplish with the music was for you, the listener, to become freed; from a self-imposed exile. Each of us goes for the ride, some never come back, others come back, feeling alive again, with a sense of urgency to do your best at managing your family. He found in me one convert.