So I realized as I was flipping thru my music Collection the other day, exactly how many songs were no more than revisions of older songs, or otherwise songs based strongly on other ones. The first example of this is when I remembered that Rammstein's son g "Dalai Lama" was based on a much older tune "Erlkönig" or the Elf King, which was an old German song/ poem dating back to the 1800's. The poem was written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and was later turned into a Leider (musical piece) by Schubert. The story was definitely rewritten by Rammstein, however after reading a straight translation the similarities of the story stands out. In both of them a fathers fear of his sons omens of death but is unable to save him, and possibly fulfills the omens himself.

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