German Song 'Ode an die Wut'

"German Song 'Ode an die Wut'"
Ryunosuke Naruhodo determining the source of the German song
Japanese title	独逸歌曲『怒りの独唱』 (Doitsu Kakyoku “Ikari no Dokushō”)
Other names	"German Song - Solo of Rage"
Track information
Album	The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve Grand Performance Recording
Disc	1/2
Track No.	25/26
Length	2:13
Composer	Yoshiya Terayama
Game information
Games	The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve
Episodes	Twisted Karma and His Last Bow

Ryunosuke Naruhodo

Ah. The music seems to have stopped now.

Herlock Sholmes

I ask you, Mr Naruhodo...

Ryunosuke Naruhodo

Yes?

Herlock Sholmes

Why would I have purchased a recording of that gibberish?

Ryunosuke Naruhodo

How should I know...?

— Twisted Karma and His Last Bow

"German Song 'Ode an die Wut'" (German for "Ode to Anger") is a music track in The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve. A piece of diegetic music in German, it plays in-universe in Twisted Karma and His Last Bow on Herlock Sholmes's gramophone while Yujin Mikotoba is unconscious from a booby-trap.

The German language lyrics of the song concern an individual forcefully asking for a lager, knackwurst, and then zither, only for each to harm or annoy them in some manner.

A German song in an English detective's home

When Yujin Mikotoba returned to visit Sholmes's suite after being home in Japan for 10 years, he was knocked out by a booby-trap sent by Iris Wilson to protect notes that she thought were written by John Wilson, who she believed to be her father. After being knocked unconscious and launched into the air by the trap, Mikotoba landed on the sofa, a mask (previously belonging to Kazuma Asogi) fell onto his face, a tablecloth landed onto his torso, and a teacup found its way onto his finger. This was the scene that Ryunosuke Naruhodo, Susato Mikotoba, and Sholmes returned to.

During a subsequent dance of deduction, Sholmes deduced that the mask and the German language song playing on his gramophone meant that the unconscious man was Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, the "King of Germany", and briefly reminisced about his time in the monarch's employ. However, Ryunosuke Naruhodo revealed that he had read Iris's story based on Sholmes's job with the king, and corrected the detective that von Ormstein was the King of Bohemia, not the King of Germany. Eventually, the trio were able to work out who the unconscious man was and what happened to him, with the music stopping on its own after being revealed as the source of the music.

Lyrics

German	English
"Her mit dem Schwarzbier", ich gebot Brodelnd wie 'n Feuerberg Den Schlund es mir verbrannt Ach Hopfen, deine Wut "Her mit dem Knacker", ich befahl Hart wie ein Diamant Den Zahn in zwei es brach Oh Eber, deine Wut "Her den Scheitholt", ich gelob' Und auf den ersten Streich Alle Saiten es zerriss Weh, Ode an die Wut	"Give me a German lager," I demanded Bubbling like a volcano It burnt my throat Oh hops, your rage "Give me a knackwurst," I commanded Hard as a diamond It broke my tooth in two Oh boar, your rage "Give me a scheitholt," I vowed And at the first stroke All strings ripped Woe, an ode to rage