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This song is about miscarriage, told from an almost impossible perspective: the unborn children themselves are speaking, asking not to be forgotten. The agricultural and natural imagery runs throughout the whole thing. The father "tills the field" (a euphemism for sex and conception), the seed is described as good, but the womb, called "the old womb" or "der alte Schoß," couldn't receive it. The tiny snakes falling through the "loin grate" are the sperm that never led to life, or possibly the lost pregnancies themselves slipping away. It's visceral and clinical at the same time, which is very much Lindemann's style.

The chorus is the emotional gut punch. The children who were never born are speaking directly to their parents, asking "do you still remember March?" They're begging not to be forgotten. The line about the father tending the field and the mother's heart breaking is devastatingly simple compared to all the biological imagery surrounding it. By the final verse, the month shifts from March to May, and now the father has lost his heart too, and the mother's is broken in two. Time has passed, the grief has settled into both parents, and these unborn voices are still there asking to be remembered.

The tone manages to be mournful without being sentimental, which is where Rammstein's German Romantic roots come in. There's something almost folk-ballad-like about the melody and structure, but the imagery keeps it from being soft. The song treats miscarriage with a kind of solemn dignity that you don't often hear in rock music, and the choice to give voice to the lost children rather than the grieving parents makes it genuinely haunting rather than just sad.