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KMFDM Album


Symbols (1997)
1997
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Leid Und Elend
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Down And Out
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Die wunder dieser welt werden dir geschenkt
Glück ist nicht käuflich sehnsucht bleibt unerreicht
Preisrätsel winken nimmersatt
Kein mitleid für die mehrheit

Nihilistic mystics
Apostolic alcoholics
Messianic manics
Catyclismic and prolific
In the age of super-boredom
Hype and mediocrity
Celebrate relentlessness
Menace to society

This is counter-culture
From the underground
Eternal revolution this is our sound
KMFDM better than the best
Megalomaniacal and harder than the rest

Refuse is our inspiration
Terrorism our trade
Sabotage and piracy
Chaos our mental sate

Mesmerizing festering
Intended for the faint of heart
Cultish and Anthemic
Until death us do part

Like a fiendish tropic virus
Spitting bile at all you whores
Razor-sharp tongue-in-cheek
Poking in your open sores

A wolf in sheep's clothing
The ultimate disgrace
Wrapped up as a gift of God
Exploding in your face

This is counter-culture
From the underground
Eternal revolution this is our sound
KMFDM better than the best
Megalomaniacal and harder than the rest

Wenn der untergrund bebt ist die ordnung erschüttert
Der verrat an der seele macht leben ungesund
Mit unschlagbaren reimen werden wir uns vertreiben
Die zeit der langen weile bis zum grossen bums

. . .


I AM YOUR HOLY TOTEM
I AM YOUR SICK TABOO
RADICAL AND RADIANT
I'M YOUR NIGHTMARE COMING TRUE
I AM YOUR WORST ENEMY
I AM YOUR DEAREST FRIEND
MALIGNANTLY MALEVOLENT
I AM OF DEVINE DESCENT

I HAVE COME TO ROCK YOUR WORLD
I HAVE COME TO SHAKE YOUR FAITH
ANATHEMATIC ANARCHIST
I HAVE COME TO TAKE MY PLACE

I AM YOUR UNCONSCIOUSNESS
I AM UNRESTRAINED EXCESS
METAMORPHIC RESTLESSNESS
I'M YOUR UNEXPECTEDNESS

I AM YOUR APOCALYPSE
I AM YOUR BELIEF UNWROUGHT
MONOLITHIC JUGGERNAUT
I'M THE ILLEGITIMATE SON OF GOD

STRAY BULLET
FROM THE BARREL OF LOVE
STRAY BULLET
FROM THE HEAVENS ABOVE
STRAY BULLET
READY OR NOT
I'M THE ILLEGITIMATE SON OF GOD


. . .

Leid Und Elend

[No lyrics]

. . .


i went through too many people
i went through heaven and hell
i went from rome to baghdad
too many stories to tell

what do you mean by that?
mercy is all you get
do what you won't regret
freedom's your self-respect
what do you mean by that?

i lived through too many aeons
i've risen up and i fell the fall
i have been thre and i have done that
i've seen it all and all

what do you mean by that?
mercy is all you get
do what you won't regret
freedom's your self-respect
what do you mean by that?

my time is running like water
deeper i dive and deeper
last of nine lives of the cat
i saved my soul for the reaper

what do you mean by that?
(i saved my soul for the reaper)
mercy is all you get
(deeper i dive and deeper)
do what you won't regret
(i saved my soul for the reaper)
freedom's your self-respect
what do you mean by that?

. . .


my motivations unresolved
things are just never what they seem
apathy's currencies deceit
pitch bending radiated dreams

the jackal's wishing well forgotten
dark cloud sunrise
the view of someone somewhere else is
burnt in my eyes

how long-dug up remains
how low-the rotting fame
how low-to see right through
how long-the hole i knew
how low-the clear eyed stain
how long-to set aflame
how low-to be set up
how long-and taken out

the ant-like karma from the crack in a hand
full painting on a mural in a foreign landfill
mind controlled by the pulley of the strings
so remote the view from the puppetry swingset

my reservations have evolved
scenes once negated ushered in
mercy killings one to one defend
visionary criminals descend
on knees all burning

a term of useless lifeless thought
what a paid ride
alchemic jail-cell vivisection
test-subject day job

how long-to pacify
how low-you still deny
how low-from up above

how long-the tripping sound
how low-to kick back down
how long-the creeping crown
how low-the holy cheat
how long- the leap of faith

these revelations undermined
controlled belief in leads mankind
each penny sold and mesmerized
we're stoned
two-fold reversal beckoning
the binding crayon words inverted
justice in travestia

how long-dug up remains
how low-the rotting fame
how-low-to see right through
how long-the hole i knew
how low-the clear eyed stain
how long-to set aflame
how low-to be set up
how long-and taken out

we worship acid moans and curbside-holidays
recycle shit we throw away in glossy packaged craze
maybe in a day or so i'll stumble on that grassy knoll
to set the record straight
announcing to myself: wake-up

we kill everything that's not tied down
we euthanize but keep alive the lowest form of prison life
so useful and experimental
treatment of the sick and dying
what about the torture?
what about the torture?
what about the torture?
what about the torture?

. . .


i keep account of my hits and my misses
the bottle makes the final call
fuel me with some of your kisses
turn towards the weeping wall
distilled within your discipline
return to go and start again
bleeding on your hallowed ground
i'm gonna lay this sodden soul right down in...

spit sperm spit
spit sperm spit

your tv is my teacher
confessional and preacher
forgive me lord for all this hate
i simply am inebriate

see the gun
pick it up
all day long you'll have good luck
see the gun
let it lie
you'll want that gun before you die

spit sperm
this moral bankrupt stinking vat
spit sperm
of shit-fueled lies and empty highs
spit sperm
bled between these piss stained lines
spit sperm
and hid behind my glazing eyes

i keep account of my hits and my misses
the bottle makes the final call
fuel me with some of your kisses
turn towards the weeping wall
distilled within your discipline
return to go and start again
bleeding on your hallowed ground
gonna lay this sodden soul right down

spit sperm
spit sperm
spit sperm
spit sperm

your tv is my teacher
confessional and preacher
forgive me lord for all this hate
i simply am inebriate

spit sperm spit
spit sperm spit

see the gun
pick it up
all day long you'll have good luck
see the gun
let it lie
you'll want that gun before you die

. . .


You break my back
You won't break me
All is black
but I still see
Shut me down
Knock me to the floor
Shoot me up
Fuck me like a whore

Trapped under ice
comfortably cold
I've gone as low as you can go
Feel no remorse
No sense of shame
Time's gonna wash away all the pain

I made a god out of blood
not superiority
I killed the king of deceit
now I sleep in anarchy, anarchy

Sacrifice to the cause
Turn your code into law
Compensate to validate the loss
Take a thief
nail him to a cross

Gospel of rage
Faction of hate
Deviate from the absolute
Born of revenge
raised on cement
Chaos created government

I made a god out of blood
not superiority
I killed the king of deceit
wake me up in
anarchy (4)

Trapped under ice
comfortably cold
I've gone as low as you can go
Feel no remorse
No sense of shame
Time's gonna wash away all the pain

I made a god out of blood
not superiority
I killed the king of deceit
now I sleep in anarchy

I made a god out of blood
not superiority
I killed the king of deceit
wake me up in anarchy

Born of revenge
raised on cement
Chaos created government

I made a god out of blood
not superiority
I killed the king of deceit
wake me up in anarchy

anarchy (6x's)

. . .

Down And Out

[No lyrics]

. . .


You are the sweetest disease for me
I can't hear you say please to me
There's nothing you cannot say to me
Come on get down and pray with me

Get down
Shut up
Come on in
It's time to take your medicine
I'm unfit
I'm unfair
You can't feel
And I don't care
Get down
Shut up
Come on in
It's time to take your medicine
I'll wipe a stripe on you tonight
I'll tee you high and you will fly

There's no feeling inside of me
You'll see nothing can hide in me
You'll find nothing can feed on me
Don't look, listen or believe in me

Get down
Shut up
Come on in
It's time to take your medicine
I'm unfit
I'm unfair
You can't feel
And I don't care
Get down
Shut up
Come on in
It's time to take your medicine
I'll wipe a stripe on you tonight
I'll tee you high and you will fly

You are the sweet disease in me
I cannot hear your pleas to me
There's nothing you can't say to me
Come on and get down and play with me

Get down
Shut up
Come on in
It's time to take your medicine
I'm unfit
I'm unfair
You can't feel
And I don't care
Get down
Shut up
Come on in
It's time to take your medicine
I'll wipe a stripe on you tonight
I'll tee you high and you will fly

Get down
Shut up
Come on in
It's time to take your medicine
I'm unfit
I'm unfair
You can't feel
And I don't care
Get down

You are the sweet disease in me
I cannot hear your pleas to me
There's nothing you can't say to me
Come on and get down and play with me

. . .


What I don't know I don't like
What I don't like I don't want
What I don't want I waste

I hypnotize with alibis and fingers made of lead
I sympathize with frozen eyes turned inwards in my head
I realize to my demise it's better left unsaid
That columns crash down endlessly and I will end up dead

**chorus**
What I don't see I don't know
What I don't know I don't want
What I don't want I don't need
What I don't need I don't feel
What I don't feel I don't say
What I don't say I don't do
What I don't do I don't like
What I don't like I waste
**chorus**

I theorize I'm on the rise
But all I do is fall
I victimize my love of life
I've seen and done it all

Ready steady stop
Hurry up and wait
The tick-tick-ticking of the clock
Delineates your fate

**Repeate chorus**

Ready steady go
Finish up your plate
Before you even realize
It's gonna be too late

I don't know what I see
I don't want what I know
I don't need what I want
I don't feel what I need
I don't say what I feel
I don't do what I say
I don't like what I do
I just like to waste

. . .


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