new lyrics: heart of stone

when his heart went still, the world started bleeding.
‚heart of stone‘ reimagines Wilhelm Hauff’s Das kalte Herz as a modern indictment of those who trade empathy for ambition. told through the eyes of a witness, the lyric follows Peter Munk’s descent from restless dreamer to cold-hearted ruler. verse by verse, it charts his temptation, the deal with Dutch-Mike, and the transformation that follows, a man willingly exchanging his beating heart for a stone to silence compassion, doubt, and fear.
the story quickly outgrows its fairy-tale forest: it becomes a mirror for today’s corridors of power, where success is measured by dominance, not decency. the first chorus asks the listener whether they’d make the same bargain; the final one no longer asks, it demands an answer. built on a steady, marching pulse, „heart of stone“ exposes the seductive logic of cruelty: the belief that to stop feeling is to stop suffering. it’s a song about what’s lost when we start calling that strength. check it out now.