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The strangest thing just happened.
I was listening to music and had WMP randomly shuffling through all the music I have saved in my music folder. And all of a sudden, a song began playing that I didn't know and didn't remember ever having saved to my music folder. It got even weirder when suddenly, a singer began speaking - in German. He was reciting some sort of recipe, like for a cake or something. I checked WMP and saw that this was apparently a Tool song called "Die Eier von Satan" - which means "Satan's Balls".
Whut? Tool? They're American, aren't they? And "Satan's Balls"? A recipe? WTF??
I asked Google, and Google gave me this:
Lead singer Maynard Keenan wrote this. It sounds kind of ridiculous because it is in German, but once you understand what he's actually saying it's quite funny and meaningful. The majority of people listening to this song are going to hear a passionate German speaker and an enraptured, cheering crowd, which they will automatically associate to Hitler and his many public speeches. The lyrics, however, are nothing but a recipe for a dessert called "The Balls (Eggs) of Satan." Throughout the speech Maynard is heard saying the phrase, "Und keine Eier." Which means "And no eggs." This is where it gets confusing. Eggs actually DO represent the Jewish people. Eggs are an essential baking ingredient because they give the food it's fullness and texture. Historically, the Jews are known to do the same for any culture they integrated themselves into. Without eggs, a recipe is flat, and without Jews, a culture is flat. In the end it is a political statement, knocking Nazism (comparing Hitler's Jewless nation to the Balls of Satan - a recipe which fails without eggs), and a thumb at Americans, who will immediately associate a German speaker to Hitler, even without knowing the text. [Source]
I later realized that I had saved this song to my music folder without realizing it - I'd just thrown it in there along with a buttload of other music I had ripped onto my HD.
Tool is the strangest band ever, lol.
I was listening to music and had WMP randomly shuffling through all the music I have saved in my music folder. And all of a sudden, a song began playing that I didn't know and didn't remember ever having saved to my music folder. It got even weirder when suddenly, a singer began speaking - in German. He was reciting some sort of recipe, like for a cake or something. I checked WMP and saw that this was apparently a Tool song called "Die Eier von Satan" - which means "Satan's Balls".
Whut? Tool? They're American, aren't they? And "Satan's Balls"? A recipe? WTF??
I asked Google, and Google gave me this:
Lead singer Maynard Keenan wrote this. It sounds kind of ridiculous because it is in German, but once you understand what he's actually saying it's quite funny and meaningful. The majority of people listening to this song are going to hear a passionate German speaker and an enraptured, cheering crowd, which they will automatically associate to Hitler and his many public speeches. The lyrics, however, are nothing but a recipe for a dessert called "The Balls (Eggs) of Satan." Throughout the speech Maynard is heard saying the phrase, "Und keine Eier." Which means "And no eggs." This is where it gets confusing. Eggs actually DO represent the Jewish people. Eggs are an essential baking ingredient because they give the food it's fullness and texture. Historically, the Jews are known to do the same for any culture they integrated themselves into. Without eggs, a recipe is flat, and without Jews, a culture is flat. In the end it is a political statement, knocking Nazism (comparing Hitler's Jewless nation to the Balls of Satan - a recipe which fails without eggs), and a thumb at Americans, who will immediately associate a German speaker to Hitler, even without knowing the text. [Source]
I later realized that I had saved this song to my music folder without realizing it - I'd just thrown it in there along with a buttload of other music I had ripped onto my HD.
Tool is the strangest band ever, lol.