In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
I'm a shock trooper in a stupor
Yes I am
I'm a Nazi schatze
Why'know I fight for fatherland
I'm a shock trooper in a stupor
Yes I am
I'm a Nazi schatze
Why'know I fight for fatherland
Little German boy
Being pushed around
Little German boy
In a German town
I'm a shock trooper in a stupor
Yes I am
I'm a Nazi schatze
Why'know I fight for fatherland
I'm a shock trooper in a stupor
Yes I am
I'm a Nazi schatze
Why'know I fight for fatherland
Little German boy
Being pushed around
Little German boy
In a German town
Today your love, tomorrow the world
Today your love, tomorrow the world
Today your love, tomorrow the world
Today your love, tomorrow the world
Today your love, tomorrow the world
Yes I am
I'm a Nazi schatze
Why'know I fight for fatherland
I'm a shock trooper in a stupor
Yes I am
I'm a Nazi schatze
Why'know I fight for fatherland
Little German boy
Being pushed around
Little German boy
In a German town
I'm a shock trooper in a stupor
Yes I am
I'm a Nazi schatze
Why'know I fight for fatherland
I'm a shock trooper in a stupor
Yes I am
I'm a Nazi schatze
Why'know I fight for fatherland
Little German boy
Being pushed around
Little German boy
In a German town
Today your love, tomorrow the world
Today your love, tomorrow the world
Today your love, tomorrow the world
Today your love, tomorrow the world
Today your love, tomorrow the world
Lyrics submitted by rainbow_radness
Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World Lyrics as written by Jeff Hyman Douglas Colvin
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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Great version of a great song,
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I'l just like to point out the utter ignorance of the comment above me. Hitler did not encounter jews until he moved to vienna to study art. He was not pushed around by Jews growing up as a boy in a sleeply little Austrian town named braunau.
Also, trying to pin a motive such as revenge to such a horrific and irrational event as the holocaust is not only misguided but also offensive. There was no rationale for the Nazi programme of genoicide other than in Hitler's sick mind he thought that Jews should not exist.
Oh wait, your Joking. Anyway something's shouldn't be said i jest because ppl (like me for instance) will get the wrong impression.
@Dressed2Depress <br /> sheez<br /> get over it
"Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World" was written by Dee Dee about his love of war movies and war comics. Dee Dee had grown up in Germany before moving to Queens, but told "New York" magazine: "We wrote the (song) because we watch a lot of war movies." The song's original first line, "Well i'm a Nazi baby/I'm a Nazi, yes I am" was changed in the studio at the request of Sire Records president Seymour Stein (although Joey always sang the original line live).
@Shocktreatment77 I agree, The Ramones had a love for schlocky B movies and exploitation flicks. The lyrics stem from there.
It has a couple of meanings -
The singer is going to get the girl, and after that anything ('the world') is possible with her love.
The 'little German boy in a german town' is Dee Dee recalling his youth as a German-American in Germany getting bullied by native Germans
There is a 1941 movie called "Tomorrow the World" about a Hitler Youth who is sent to live with family in America before the war but retains his brainwashing (and his uniform!). He is a little German boy "being pushed around", when ultimately he only needs real fatherly love, not what the reich was teaching him. (crazy movie too - he tries to kill his foster father's Jewish girlfriend!). I wouldn't be surprised if Dee Dee caught this movie on TV one night.
This is a great song ... I think "Today your love, tomorrow the world" refers to Nazis and Germans being human, with feelings and hopes and dreams, instead of mindless killing machines, as the media of the US of A reperesents them to this day.
@Child Of Music <br /> It's called 'projection' in psychiatry
Well, the phrase "Today Germany, Tomorrow the World!" was one of the Nazi party's rallying cries/slogans. Generally, people who are pushed around when they are a kid (no matter by whom), they can grow up with a chip on their shoulder. Many of these people join the police, the military, any position of authority where they can use force to get what they want. They learned to accept this type of behavior when they were on the recieving end. I doubt DeeDee was thinking it out this hard when they were in the basement sniffin' carbona and kicking out these jams, though. It probably did have something to do with pissing off his dad, or freaking out the mainstream in general.
@fuzzfoot <br /> glue NOT carbona
In no way is Dee Dee rationalizing or sympathizing with Germans here. He is slamming on how they perpetrated evil as revenge for perceived slights in their mind. Remember Bonzo later, Dee Dee and Joey were livid with Reagan's take that Germans were victims
I really don't know what is meant by this song? i'm studying it for my english A2 coursework and just don't have a clue.Any hints?
youre doing this for english coursework?! man your school/college/whatever rocks! i had to anthony and cleopatra! and you get the ramones?that just aint fair!
Dee Dee used to live in Germany.
Great song, I think Child of Music hit the nail on he head.
BTW, the original lyrics instead of Shock trooper in a stupor, were "I'm a Nazi, Baby, I'm a Nazi, Yes I Am"
@knuxman <br /> Which sound fantastico