From Rosenrot · 2005 · Track 5
Wo bist du
«Where Are You»
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In context
A song that arrived late to its album: it had been recorded for the previous one and was played to journalists before it was left off.
- Search
- Absence
- Outtake
- Origin
- Fifth track on “Rosenrot”, recorded in 2003 at El Cortijo Studio, Málaga, with Jacob Hellner producing, Stefan Glaumann mixing (Stockholm) and Howie Weinberg mastering (New York). Released on 28 October 2005. It was never a single, although an extended 4:21 version circulated at a press event.
- The German key
- “Wo bist du” — where are you — is a plain question, the kind you ask out loud inside an empty house. No figure of speech dresses it up.
- What the band has said
- The band has not explained why it left it off “Reise, Reise”.
- Live
- Never performed live.
Our reading
“Rosenrot” came out of the same sessions as “Reise, Reise”: the band recorded more material than would fit on one album and kept the rest. This is one of the clearest examples of that origin — not a reject, but material that waited two years for its place.
The archive's interpretation, not an official account.
A song that arrived late to its own record
Rosenrot grew out of the same sessions as Reise, Reise: the band recorded more material than fit on one album and held the rest back for a later release, in 2005. “Wo bist du” is one of the clearest examples of that origin — it was already recorded for Reise, Reise and was even played at a press pre-listening before the band decided to leave it off that tracklist and save it for the following record.
Context
Fifth track on Rosenrot, recorded in 2003 at El Cortijo Studio in Málaga, Spain, produced by Jacob Hellner, mixed by Stefan Glaumann at Toytown Studios in Stockholm, and mastered by Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk in New York. It came out with the rest of the album on 28 October 2005. It was never a single, though an extended 4:21 version circulated at a press event that year.
Notes by Rammstein Colombia, for the purpose of analysis. The original lyrics belong to their authors and are not reproduced in this entry.