“Mutter” (German for mother) is a song by Rammstein on the album of the same name.

The song was confirmed by Till Lindemann and Richard Kruspe to be a reference to their unhappy childhood relationships with their own mothers.

The lyrics tell the story of a child not born from a womb but in an experiment, thus having no true father or mother. The lyrics describe his plan to kill both the mother “who never gave birth to him” and himself, a plan which he proceeds to carry out. However, he still fails to kill himself, instead ending up mutilated and no better off than before. The child begs, possibly prays, for strength, but his dead mother does not answer.

The narrative of the song is similar to “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, in that the character takes revenge for his misfortunes on his ‘parent’, and then ends up no different from before the ‘parent’ died.

The video for Mutter follows the storyline of the song, whereby the character kills his mother and then dumps her body in a river, ending with the character in a cage or dungeon that is set into the ground.

The single includes “5/4”, a song in quintuple meter that is instrumental except for a Speak & Spell dialogue sample that was played as the intro for live shows since 2000, but wasn’t released until 2002.

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