Stein um Stein is the ninth track of Reise, Reise. A slow monologue about someone building a little house to entomb his victim alive, a possible interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Amontillado. The riff during the chorus resembles the riff after the second chorus in Rosenrot. It was originally going to be the first single from Reise, Reise but was dropped in favor of "Mein Teil". Another interpretation is that the song refers to the Berlin Wall and the former East German government; until the end of 1989, East Germans were not readily allowed into the capitalist West.