Part of this song is actually taken from a children's show called Das Sandmännchen (The Little Sandman). Das Sandmännchen (The Little Sandman) is a TV show from Germany that started in the mid-1950s. Every night the show would come on and the das Sandmännchen would tell bedtime stories. Each show started out with "Nun, liebe Kinder, gebt fein Acht. Ich habe euch etwas mitgebracht" ("Now, dear children, pay attention. I have brought something for you"). This should sound similar already.
The working title for "Mein Herz brennt" was actually "Sandmann" ("Sandman"). Basically das Sandmännchen was nice and good, but the subject of the song that Till has dreamed up is quite the opposite. In fact, he was even worse in a previous incarnation of the song played at the Fanabend concert in April 2000 at the Knaack Klub, Berlin. In the old version, a man has killed the real sandman and stolen his hair to look like him. He shows up for the children instead of who they were expecting.
Nun liebe Kinder gebt fein Acht
Ich bin die Stimme aus dem Kissen
Ich hab euch Haare mitgebracht
Hab sie dem Sandmann abgebissen
Ich trag es, weil ihr böse wart
Ich hab ihm Haar mit Haut geraubt
Biss ab den blutverschmierten Bart
Und warf ihn auf mein kahles Haupt
Now, dear children, pay attention
I am the voice from the pillow
I have brought hair for you
I bit them it off of the sandman
I wear it, because you were bad
I robbed him of hair with skin
I bit off the bloodsmeared beard
and tossed it on my bald head.
Part of this song is actually taken from a children's show called Das Sandmännchen (The Little Sandman). Das Sandmännchen (The Little Sandman) is a TV show from Germany that started in the mid-1950s. Every night the show would come on and the das Sandmännchen would tell bedtime stories. Each show started out with "Nun, liebe Kinder, gebt fein Acht. Ich habe euch etwas mitgebracht" ("Now, dear children, pay attention. I have brought something for you"). This should sound similar already.
The working title for "Mein Herz brennt" was actually "Sandmann" ("Sandman"). Basically das Sandmännchen was nice and good, but the subject of the song that Till has dreamed up is quite the opposite. In fact, he was even worse in a previous incarnation of the song played at the Fanabend concert in April 2000 at the Knaack Klub, Berlin. In the old version, a man has killed the real sandman and stolen his hair to look like him. He shows up for the children instead of who they were expecting.
Nun liebe Kinder gebt fein Acht Ich bin die Stimme aus dem Kissen Ich hab euch Haare mitgebracht Hab sie dem Sandmann abgebissen
Ich trag es, weil ihr böse wart Ich hab ihm Haar mit Haut geraubt Biss ab den blutverschmierten Bart Und warf ihn auf mein kahles Haupt
Now, dear children, pay attention I am the voice from the pillow I have brought hair for you I bit them it off of the sandman
I wear it, because you were bad I robbed him of hair with skin I bit off the bloodsmeared beard and tossed it on my bald head.