“Mein Herz Brennt” by Rammstein

"Mein Herz brennt" ("My heart burns") kicks the door in on Mutter, Rammstein's third album, out in March 2001, and it opened their concerts through that era too. Till Lindemann plays the Sandman gone bad: intro and chorus start with a line lifted from Sandmännchen, the German children's bedtime-story TV show, and his narrator deals in nightmares instead. Richard Z. Kruspe and Paul Landers pile on the guitars, Christian "Flake" Lorenz works the keyboards, Oliver Riedel and Christoph Schneider pound out the bottom end, all six share the writing, and Jacob Hellner produced with the band.

It waited over a decade for a release of its own. The only song on the 2011 hits set Made in Germany 1995–2011 that had never been a single or had a video, it finally came out as one in 2012 to push Videos 1995–2012, with a piano version following that December.

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