Lyrics for Links 2 3 4 (english) as interpreted by John M

Links 2 3 4 (english) Lyrics
Can you break hearts
Can hearts be spoken?
Can you torture hearts
Can hearts be stolen?

They want my heart on the right side
But then I look below

It just beats left on the left

Can hearts sing
Can a heart spring
Can hearts be true
Can a heart be made of stone

They want my heart on the right side
But then I look below

It just beats on the left

Left two three four left

Can you question hearts
To carry a kid under them
Can you give it all up
To think with your heart

They want my heart on the right side
But I look below

It just beats in the left breast
As the envier one knew badly

Left two three four left

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TheMouseisModest
11-25-2008

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Think of it like this. we say HUT 2 3 4,

They say LINKS zwo, drei, vier

and anyone who links rammstein with Nazi's, is 1. Ignorant 2. Dumb as hell

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CrimsonTide
10-24-2008

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Actually I would have loved if they were right winged. Finally a right winged rock band, instead of all those left winged ones. Pity they aren't

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Relle
07-19-2008

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Ive meet Richard before nd he said this song is about a time when Till's nd his ex-wife got into a fist fight nd she yelled "put your heart on the right side, then call me' before she left

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redskyatnight
12-20-2007

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The song was written around a time when Rammstein were under heavy fire for their overall Germanic theme, especially after the Columbine massacre and the two protagonists' supposed links with Nazism. To a lot of people in the non-German world (especially AmeriKKKa), German=Nazi, full stop. Though if the Americans had found out that the band were all Communists, they would probably have reacted just as badly. I on the other hand admire their style.

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pete_r
08-24-2007

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half cab and madkal are pretty much right about this. the song was written in response to rammstein being called nazi's by the media thats where "they want my heart on the right side" comes from, their response is that they are more left wing and not right wing fascists like the media was portrayin them as

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Kikkoman
04-18-2007

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Pinten; Lite rasist kanske? ^_^;
Well, I think it's about everyone (media etc) think they're Nazists, and they are trying to tell everyone their not.
Clever lyrics, I love Rammstein both music and lyric-wise. ^^

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Pinten
08-12-2006

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Haha, this song is so cool. For me it's about people rebellion against a overwhelming enemy. They gather underground and strike from beneath. It might sound like revolutionary dreams. But it's like that in Sweden. We are getting oppressed in our on country with foreigners. And the Swedish youth generations are just a boiling bowl of hatred. There are marches against politicians and corruption annually. For me it's the song about the will of the youth. Going to explode in the traitors faces!

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alemur
01-02-2006

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they arent nazis:

They want my heart on the right side
But I look below

It just beats in the left breast
As the envier one knew badly

this is for sure plitical ment

(sry for bad english)

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Akakuro
08-16-2005

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If you go for the interpretation of Feuer Frei that brings to mind Vietnam, I mean.

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Akakuro
08-16-2005

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Maybe I just say this because of living under the Bush administration, and because of the recent goings-on in Iraq, but this isn't just about Rammstein. It has a more broad meaning about the soldier as an archetype, and the importance of feelings and protective instincts in war. Basically, it portrays the soldier as noble and good (though even good men can be caught up in the atrocities of war, as Feuer Frei indicates), and stresses that they are not to be particularly associated with the politicians whose demands they must follow.

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Sk8er666
08-04-2005

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Links 2 3 4. Rammstein is an awesome German band.

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Child Of Music
07-23-2005

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I can listen to this song over and over and over and not get bored of it. Great song.

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Madkal
06-25-2005

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the way i heard it, there was a famous german poem about how the heart beats on the left (ie anti-fascist, pro socialist and so on). rammstein took this poem as the basis for their song, saying their hearts belong on the left, even though people think they are right wing.

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Disposition_987
03-14-2005

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wow, reading about this whole "controversy" just seems to strike another blow to man's credibility to me.... i wasn't aware that being German made you a Nazi!

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Alucard Mishima
03-04-2005

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I like how the word "left" applied to both the side your heart is on, and the left foot in the march. And the ant formations were awesome.

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demonwings
03-02-2005

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the media thought, that rammstein is a nazi band, and so rammstein wanted to provoke them(with the video) and tell them that that's not true(with the song)

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skye frusciante
02-21-2005

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the song is about people thinking theyre like these loud stupid nazi bastards, whereas in fact they're not :)
well
maybe they are loud, but that's not the point.
It was fun when the song came out and everyone here was being stupid thinking they were nazis and all of us in my school (german school) knew it was quite the opposite

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heartagramofhim
01-29-2005

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i read in an interview with richard that this song is to proove that they are not nazi's

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reprecussion
12-03-2004

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Jager, prove it.

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Goose511th
11-01-2004

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How do you happen to know that, Jaeger? You just leave a lot of comments hanging in the air..

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TheBaron
10-11-2004

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Jaeger - YOU ARE A WANKER (Wichser auf Deutsch)
Your comment are insulting to all that is Rammstein

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dieda
09-18-2004

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as a german, i just wanted to ad, that till also used a popular socialist hymn in this song to define their point of (political) view.
and by the way most of them played in left-winged punkbands of the old ddr (eastern germany) before the founded rammstein

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freakishfae
06-14-2004

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Can you break hearts
Can hearts be spoken?
Can you torture hearts
Can hearts be stolen?

This reminds me of how only the body can truly be tortured, and I think the heart represents feeling rather than the actual organ... I think these lines are asking that same question.

They want my heart on the right side
But then I look below
It just beats left on the left

This fits into the whole "right" and "left" wing politics thoery rather well... This seems to be what these lines are about.

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miceyman
06-20-2003

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to comment on the nazi thing. it can still be about nazis. except. the whole thing is villifying anything to do with the nazi party. and the whole right / left thing. um. nazism is neither rightist nor leftist, and the right doesn't imply evil or hatred. it just means overall less governmental role. i think the authority figure telling the heart to beat on the right is because of how unnatural it is--it's a basic fact that it's on the left. kinda like orwellian 2 + 2 = 5. i see it as maybe making a reference to nazism, but authoritarianism in general, and promptly refuting it. the first verse is questioning how a nation can be corrupted, and in the chorus they're exhibiting their own choice to go against a malicious system. anyway. i might be looking into it too much. after all, rammstein rocks out first, and writes intelligent yrics second.

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Half Cab
05-10-2003

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I think the heart isn't really a metaphor at all, check this:

"They want my heart on the right side
But then I look below
It just beats on the left"

Like "they" (the media, public, etc.) want Rammstein to be right wingers to give them something to unite against, a figure of hate, a reason to hate, whatever - but Rammstein are the total opposite. That's where their heart is, not in the right...

I guess all the way through it's almost questioning whether someones true heart/desires/opinions can really be changed or manipulated...

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