Propaganda (Song)

Propaganda
General Information
Artist	Composer: Taku Iwasaki
Album/Single	Battle Tendency (Musik)
Label	Warner Home Video
Length	3:03 (Full)
Use	Anime Episode 13, Episode 19, Episode 23, Episode 26
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Propaganda is the 18th track of the Battle Tendency (Musik) Anime Soundtrack. The song was used in the second part of the series, Battle Tendency, as the theme of the character Rudol von Stroheim.

Lyrics

German Lyrics

English Translation

Der Mensch ist böse (x2) The human is evil (x2) Der Mensch ist böse The human is evil Der Mensch muss besser und böser werden The human must become better and more evil Der Mensch ist böse. The human is evil Der Mensch muss besser und böser werden The human must become better and more evil So lehre ich So I teach Auch dem Guten steht ein Edler im Wege Even for the good, a noble [one] stands in the way und selbst wenn sie ihn einen Guten nennen and even if they call him a good [man], so wollen sie ihn damit bei Seite bringen they want to put him aside Auch dem Guten steht ein Edler im Wege Even for the good, a noble [one] stands in the way und selbst wenn sie ihn einen Guten nennen and even if they call him a good man so wollen sie ihn damit bei Seite bringen they want to put him aside Der Mensch ist Böse Der Mensch muss besser und böser werden The human is evil The human must become better and more evil Der Mensch ist Böse Der Mensch muss besser und böser werden The human is evil The human must become better and more evil Der Mensch ist Böse Der Mensch muss besser und böser werden The human is evil The human must become better and more evil Der Mensch The human

Full Song

Complete song on YouTube

Trivia

• The lyrics of the song are pulled from chapters of Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, a novel by German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche^W, inventor of the Übermensch^W.
  • The concept of the Übermensch^W coincides with the ideology of the Nazis in the series, and is mentioned by Stroheim when revealing his machine gun in Episode 19. Even though Nietzsche himself was a fierce opponent of what later became the ideology of the Nazi party, some of them were moved by his work without being "converted" (or used the severely manipulative version of his work published by his sister), as it was probably the case of Stroheim.
  • The given English translation of the lyrics here are taken from Thomas Common's translation of said book.