Rammstein - Spieluhr Lyrics Meaning

The song is most probably based on a German fairy tale called Das Eigensinnige Kind (the wayward child) about a child that speaks back to its mother and therefor God makes the child so sick that it dies. It's a very short tale.

The tale was meant to teach children not to be unruly - educational goal at the time when the tale was written down was to break the will of children. There are psychological analysis of the tale, which go deeper into it ().

Till gives the tale a different twist though. In Spieluhr the child regains power over its own life, its will is not broken, instead it makes its own rules and lives by it - keyword here is it lives.

I love how they turned around the really very negative and threatening tenor of the tale and turned it into something positive. :)