From Mutter · 2001 · Track 9
Rein raus
«In, Out»
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In context
A single metaphor —riding, with the narrator as the rider— sustained from start to finish, without the narrative twists of the rest of the album. It is one of the most explicit songs in the catalogue and does not bother to disguise it.
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- Literalness
- Origin
- Ninth song on “Mutter”, recorded in 2000 at Studio Miraval in Correns, France. It was never released as a single, but it appeared on the live video “Völkerball”, recorded in February 2005 at the Carling Academy Brixton in London. The studio version hides a little-known detail: a fragment of reversed vocals at 1:50.
- Live
- Debuted on 16 April 2000 at a fan-club-only show, with synths and a structure different from the final version. 126 documented performances up to 6 February 2010, spread across three tours.
Our reading
Its interest lies precisely in the absence of a hidden layer. On an album that builds laboratory creatures and buried children, this song offers no interpretive way out — and that alternation between the coded and the literal is part of how the whole album works.
The archive's interpretation, not an official account.
A metaphor that doesn’t hide
The title already says it all: “in, out.” The lyric builds the scene around a horse ride — the narrator as rider, the other body as the mount — and doesn’t bother disguising what it’s about. It’s one of the most explicit songs in the band’s catalogue, and also one of the most direct in how it’s built: a single metaphor, carried from start to finish, without the narrative turns of tracks like “Zwitter” or “Mutter.”
Context
Ninth track on Mutter, recorded in 2000 at Studio Miraval in Correns, France. It was never released as a single, but appeared on the live video Völkerball, recorded 3–5 February 2005 at the Carling Academy Brixton in London and released on 17 November 2006. The studio version hides a lesser-known detail: a reversed vocal snippet at the 1:50 mark.
Live
It debuted on 16 April 2000 at a fanclub-exclusive show, with different synths and structure from the final version. It stayed in the setlist until 6 February 2010 — 126 documented performances across the Mutter Tour, the Reise, Reise Tour and the Liebe ist für alle da Tour, where it picked up pyrotechnics and stage props.
Notes by Rammstein Colombia, for the purpose of analysis. The original lyrics belong to their authors and are not reproduced in this entry.