Menschenfresser [English translation]

Man-eaters are men1 too, but not always male

Man-eating men eat their meals with salt and pepper

Man-eating men find men quite disgusting

Man-eating men like to see people crawl

Man-eating men have a heart for children2

Man-eating men generally live much healthier lives

Man-eating men are sometimes vegetarians 3

Man-eating men are not always blond and Aryan

And when man-eaters cry

They feel terribly sorry for everything

But they can not change it

It's just a hard time, it's just a hard time

Man-eating men are normal and mostly very hardworking

Man-eating men weren't invented in 1933

Man-eating men often make very good fathers

Man-eating men mostly commit crimes of conscience

Man-eating men seldom eat men themselves

Man-eating men have a thousand helpers

Man-eating men may never rest

Man-eating men have so terribly much to do

And when man-eaters cry

They feel terribly sorry for everything

But they can not change it

It's just a hard time, it's just a hard time

A hard time

Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes

Man-eating men can also play tennis and ride horses

You can find man-eating men on all sides

Man-eating men get man-eater pensions

Man-eating men make it all the way to the president's office

Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes

Man-eating men are standing next to you at the bar counter

Man-eating men are never to blame

Man-eating men get man-eater pensions

Man-eating men make it all the way to the president's office

Man-eaters(x8)

1. Meaning "human". I translated it as "men" throughout the song to preserve some of the original flow.2. "Ein Herz für Kinder" was a charity campaign by the German newspaper "Bild"

which was trying to whitewash their bad image as the yellow press that hunts for sensational headlines and crude stories.3. Likely an allusion to Adolf Hitler who was a vegetarian