my heart is burning

my heart is burning
publication	April 2, 2001 December 7, 2012 (single)
length	4:39 (album version) 4:30 (single version)
Genre (s)	New German Hardness
Author (s)	Rammstein
Producer (s)	Jacob Hellner , Rammstein
album	mother

Burns my heart is a song of the German New German Hardness - band Rammstein . It was written by Rammstein and produced by Jacob Hellner together with the band. The song originally appeared on their third studio album Mutter on April 2, 2001, and was released as a single in a piano version on December 7, 2012, more than eleven years later .

background

The working title for My Heart Burns was Sandman . The Sandman is a figure with positive connotations in German folk myth. He is supposed to bring the little children to sleep by throwing sand in their eyes. A story by ETA Hoffmann is also entitled , in which the Sandman is a monster that pulls out the eyes of young children in order to feed them to its young.

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The song describes children's nightmares with “demons, ghosts, black fairies” from the point of view of the sandman, who, according to a recurring line of text in the chorus, is “the voice from the pillow” that haunts children night after night. The entry line “Well, dear children, pay attention” was taken exactly from the program Our Sandman .

Music videos

In December 2012, two different music videos were released for the song, one for the original version from 2001, which is included on the album Mutter , and one for the piano version.

In the making-of for the video of the original version, guitarist Paul Landers and drummer Christoph Schneider said that the song was an “unrecovered treasure” due to its richly pictorial words, which the band really lost at the time, which is why a video production was subsequently decided .

The elaborate filming took place from December 17-19, 2011 in parts of the building in the Beelitz sanatorium near Potsdam , which had been vacant and dilapidated for years . The musicians had hired the Spanish photographer Eugenio Recuenco as the director, who , among other things, designed the cover and booklet of the 2009 Rammstein album Liebe ist für alle and whose strong visual language delighted the musicians. During this filming, the band members - pale make-up and old-fashioned clothes - appeared as sandman ( Till Lindemann ), teachers and doctors in a children's home or boarding school and experienced nightmarish scenes together with numerous child actors. The imagery of Recuenco was strongly reminiscent of the style that he had already used on the shoot to love is for everyone .

However, the band did not end up using the finished Recuenco video. The musicians justified this with the fact that Recuenco had not taken into account the rhythm and dramaturgy of the music when editing. They commissioned the director Zoran Bihać to do a re-shoot. At this point in time, Bihać was already responsible for the Rammstein videos for Links 2-3-4 , Mein Teil and Rosenrot . The additional shoot took place again on June 12, 2012 in the Beelitzer Heilstätten. A number of Recuenco's recordings were used as so-called footage material for the new cut. In the final video, Bihać now clearly placed Recuenco's images in a context of the past and contrasted them with some new scenes from a fictional present time. In addition, he let the band in the video, in bizarre costumes and nightmarish make-up, play the striking string part of the song on cellos themselves. The video premiered on December 14, 2012.

Recuenco reacted angrily at first, berated the band on the Internet and accused them of acting purely commercially and not having asked his permission whether his material could be used in this way. In addition, his name was not mentioned in the new cut. He later apologized for his tone through his Facebook account.

During the post-shooting in 2012, a separate video was also created for the piano version of the song. This differs significantly from the other video, because due to the lack of classical band instruments, only singer Till Lindemann appears in this song version, who sings the song in a single room of the Beelitz-Heilstätten. This video premiered on December 7, 2012.

single

Cover design

The single cover shows a black masked figure, as it appears in the music video shot for the song. In the foreground are the white lettering Rammstein and Mein Herz brennt and the Rammstein logo on a flame. The background is completely bright red.

Track list

1. My Heart Burns (Piano Version) - 4:30
2. Give me your eyes - 3:43
3. My Heart Burns (Video Edit) - 4:18
4. My Heart Burns ( Boys Noize RMX) - 5:00
5. My Heart Burns (Piano Instrumental) - 4:30

• The 7 ″ single only contains the songs Mein Herz burns (piano version) and Give me your eyes .

Chart successes

My heart burns entered the German charts at number seven on December 21, 2012 and stayed in the top 100 for five weeks. The single also hit the charts in Austria and Switzerland, ranking 31st and 33rd, respectively, for a week.

Chart placements

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	7th (5 weeks)	5
Austria (Ö3)	31 (1 week)	1
Switzerland (IFPI)	33 (1 week)	1

Web links

• Lyrics with interpretations
• Music video on YouTube.com
• Music video (piano version) on YouTube.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ rammstein.de: History: Mein Herz brennt explicit version video , accessed on August 5, 2017
2. ↑ rammstein.de: History: Mein Herz brennt explicit version video , accessed on August 5, 2017
3. ↑ jenesaispop.com: Rammstein contra Recuenco , December 21, 2012, accessed on August 5, 2017
4. ↑ Universal Music Domestic Division, Rammstein Videos 1995-2012 , 2012, DVD 3, Making-of for Mein Herz brennt
5. ↑ Universal Music Domestic Division, Rammstein Videos 1995-2012 , 2012, DVD 3, Video zu Mein Herz brennt - Piano version
6. ↑ Single cover
7. ↑ Chart tracking My heart burns on officialcharts.de
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH