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About the song ‘Klavier’: “Klavier is my favorite song on the CD. It’s about the passion and madness of a killer. I worked on the text for two years. It began as a harmless romantic love poem to a piano teacher and then evolved into the grotesque and surreal.”
About the song ‘Tier’ : “When a man sexually abuses a child, he steps down to the level of an animal. Incest, rape, sexual abuse are the most despicable crimes. I’m very close to the topic. I was shocked to hear about the abused girls in Belgium who were being murdered by this child molester. I have a twelve year old daughter myself. If I imagined that something like that would happen to my daughter, I don’t know what I would do.”
About the song ‘Bestrafe Mich’ : “However, I don’t believe that God exists. And if he exists and he really allows all the misery on this earth, then he should also punish me along with the many other sufferers. I would never pray to such a cruel god.”
About the song ‘Alter Mann’: “An ode to old age, to transience. On my recent vacation to the Maldives, I witnessed an old man sweeping the beach in front of the bungalows from dawn to dusk. Whenever he was done, someone would start stomping through the smooth sand again. The old man then just started all over again. I was deeply impressed by his serenity and unshakeable composure. That’s how life is too - the return of the eternally same, just a little different each time.” Till Lindemann in Bravo, 25.09.1997