Written by Peter Heppner and Markus Reinhardt, it was featured on their album No Happy View.

[1] The original Wolfsheim release of the song did not chart, but was a club hit[2] and was widely available on various compilations.

Reinhardt says the lyric was inspired by The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "wegen der 'lautmalerischen Spannung' zwischen Raubtier und Geborgenheit gereizt."

")[2] In 1999, Mark 'Oh versus John Davies covered the song for the album Rebirth.

[6] The electronic band The Echoing Green covered the song on the 2004 edition of their album The Winter of Our Discontent.