MorgensternLyrics

So this song is basically a dark, tender love story about someone considered physically ugly by the world's standards. The first part is told from the perspective of the woman herself, or at least describes her situation. She's so ugly, the song says, that even light is afraid of her face. She has to hide during the day and lives in the shadows, and in that twilight she spots the morning star and begs it to paint beauty on her cheeks. It's genuinely sad imagery, this lonely figure looking up at the sky and asking a star to make her feel less alone.

Then the narrator steps in, a person who loves her. He walks out alone at night, sees the beautiful people of the world going about their lives, and calls up to the starry sky on her behalf. He asks the morning star to shine on her, to warm her face, and to tell her she's not alone and that he's crying for her. There's a brutal little line in the middle where he admits, almost coldly, that humans are visual creatures and he wishes for beautiful things, and she is not beautiful. It sounds harsh but it actually makes the ending hit harder because he loves her anyway.

The final verse is where the song really lands. The star shines on her, warms his chest, and the last lines say simply that when you see with the heart, she is beautiful. It's Rammstein doing something they don't always get credit for, which is genuine romantic sincerity wrapped inside all the ugliness and provocation. The word "Ungesicht," meaning something like un-face or non-face, is a great example of Lindemann's wordplay, coining a term to describe a face the world would rather not see, and then arguing it deserves warmth and light just the same.