The lyrics tell of a man who is asked by his lover to retrieve a rose from a mountain, and falls to his death.

The lyrics contain elements from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem "Heidenröslein" (while his poem "Erlkönig" similarly inspired the Reise, Reise track, "Dalai Lama"), and the story "Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot," from the Brothers Grimm.

The video was filmed at Măgura (near Brașov), Romania, and portrays the band as travelling monks who have come to a small village.

As he leaves the house, the girl briefly smiles at him before she alarms the villagers, who grab him and burn him at the stake.

These scenes are intercut with the other monks, played by the band's other members, engaging in self-flagellation as an act of contrition.