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Spieluhr (German for music box) is a song released by Rammstein, off of the album Mutter (2001). The lyrics recall a German children's song with the lyric Hoppe hoppe Reiter (slang for up and down, as riding a horse). The song entails a boy with his music box pretending to be dead, because he wanted to be alone. So a group (presumably the townspeople) buried him with the music box in a graveyard (referred to as Gottesacker, or God's field) without ceremony. The child wakes up, winds the music box, and sings with it from the ground, hoping to be rescued. The townspeople, while celebrating the holiday of Totensonntag (Sunday of the dead, a holiday taking place on the last Sunday before Adventin November. It's the day when Protestant Christians remember their dead), hear the child's song, and come to unearth him. They then save his small heart. Jump to: navigation, search Rammstein is a German band formed in 1993. ... Jump to: navigation, search Mutter (German for mother) is Rammsteins third studio album. ...
Decidedly morbid, this is the seventh song on the album.
The part "....uhr" of the word "Spieluhr" has the meaning of clock or watch.
It should be logical to think that a "Spieluhr" should be a clock that plays a tune.
It's partially OK. In most cases, if someone talks (or writes) about a "Spieluhr", he or she talks about a simple cylinder or disk music box (without a clock).
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