NOTE 1: The original German lyrics are copyright Herbert Grönemeyer. They are provided for educational use only. No infringement of copyright is implied or intended.
NOTE 2: This English translation by Hyde Flippo is only intended to aid students' understanding of the German. It is more literal than poetic.

Men take you in their arms
Men provide security
Men cry in secret
Men need a lot of tenderness
Oh men are so vulnerable
Men simply can't be replaced in this world

Men buy women
Men are always high
Men toil like idiots
Men lie on the phone
Oh men are always ready
Men corrupt with their money and their carelessness

Men have it rough, don't take things seriously
Outside hard, inside quite soft
Programmed already from childhood to be a man
When is a man a man?
When is a man...

Men have muscles
Men are terribly strong
Men can do everything
Men have heart attacks
Oh men are lonely champions
Have to go through walls, always have to go on

Men...

Men wage wars
Men are already blue when they're babies
Men smoke pipes
Men are terribly clever
Men build rockets
Men do things very very precisely
When is a man a man?
When is...

Men don't have babies
Men get thinning hair
Men are people (humans), too
Men are something special
Oh men are so vulnerable
Men simply can't be replaced in this world

Men...

   - from the album 4630 BOCHUM (1984)

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