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KMFDM - Nihil lyrics



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01. Ultra

Music & lyrics by Sascha Konietzko, En Esch, Mark Durante, Gunter Shultz, Chris Shepard,
When you peel back my eyes
I see the pain and feel alive
My hatred heaps upon this fire
That burns inside and you blow higher
But I don't need you anymore
You cannot hurt me anymore

Keep it away from the fire
Unless you want it to burn
It burns, wildfire
Give it to me
Wildfire
Don't take it from me
Wildfire
Give it

And when you take me in your mind
Into this dirty sodden shrine
I do not need you anymore
You cannot hurt me anymore

Keep it away from the fire
Unless you want it to burn
It burns, wildfire
Give it to me
Wildfire
Don't take it from me
Wildfire
Give it to me
Set on fire
Don't take it from me
Wildfire
Take it

And when you peel back my eyes
I see the pain and feel alive
My hatred heaps upon this fire
That burns inside and you blow higher

Keep it away from the fire
Unless you want it to burn
It burns, wildfire
Give it to me
Wildfire
Don't take it from me
Wildfire
Give it to me
It burns, wildfire
Don't take it from me
Wildfire
Give it

Wildfire
Give it to me
Wildfire
Don't take it from me
Wildfire
Give it to me
Wildfire
Don't take it from me
Caught on fire
On fire
On fire
I do not need you anymore
On fire
You cannot hurt me anymore
Fire

Give it, give it to me
On fire
I do not need you anymore
Fire
You cannot hurt me anymore
Fire
I do not need you anymore
Fire
You cannot hurt me anymore
Fire
You cannot hurt me

02. Juke Joint Jezebel

Music & lyrics by Sascha Konietzko, En Esch, Gunter Shultz, Raymond Watts
I can't reject this empty hole
I cannot count the bloody cost
I can't believe this wretched soul
Come penetrate all this loss
Come on and kill this sense of life
And be the one who is denied
Now show me one more upturned knife
And fill the emptiness inside

Be mine sister salvation
Juke Joint Jezebel is coming for my cremation
Be mine sister salvation
Closer now, see the revelation

If I could leave my burning skin
That has been used up in your sin
Is there a tiny part of me
Untouched, unsoiled by misery?

Be mine sister salvation
Juke Joint Jezebel is coming for my cremation
Be mine sister salvation
Closer now, see the revelation

I am the city that will lie
You are the one that blame passed by
This is the place where I will weep
The loneliness of sweet conceit

Be mine sister salvation
Juke Joint Jezebel is coming for my cremation
Be mine sister salvation
Closer now, see the revelation
The revelation
The revelation
The revelation
The revelation
See the revelation
The revelation

The revelation
The revelation
The revelation
See the revelation
The revelation
The revelation
The revelation
See the revelation

03. Flesh

Music & lyrics by Sascha Konietzko, En Esch, Gunter Shultz, Raymond Watts
Into this void I will give my self-control
Inside this noise is a weak and Godless soul
Give me what I know
Feel this ego

There's a rusty halo on my head
It must have been something that I said
This is the dome of my betrayal
This is the final broken nail
Fill this hole
Suck this soul
I am the thing that I can't control

Press my flesh
Press my flesh
Press my flesh
Press my flesh
Flesh

These eyes are twitching like a cup of squirming flies
When I'm on my knees you can do just what you please
Give me what I know
Feel this ego

There's a rusty halo on my head
It must have been something that I said
This is the dome of my betrayal
This is the final broken nail
Fill this hole
Suck this soul
I am the thing that I can't control

Press my flesh
Press my flesh
Press my flesh
Press my flesh
Flesh
Flesh
Flesh

Inside this noise is a weak and Godless soul

There's a rusty halo on my head
It must have been something that I said
This is the dome of my betrayal
This is the final broken nail
Fill this hole
Suck this soul
I am the thing that I can't control

Press my flesh
Press my flesh
Press my flesh
Press my flesh

There's a rusty halo on my head
It must have been something that I said
This is the dome of my betrayal
This is the final broken nail

Inside this noise is a weak and Godless soul

Fill this hole
Suck this soul
I am the thing that I can't control

Press my flesh
Press my flesh
Press my flesh
Press my flesh
Flesh
Flesh

04. Beast

Music & lyrics by Sascha Konietzko, Gunter Shultz
My youth is wasted
I'm evasive and vague
I'm a headless beast
I'm a subtle plague
I'm a cheatin' liar
I am naked terror
I hurt, I wound
I'm a fatal error

I don't make sense
I got my pride
Don't need no meaning
I feel no shame
I will not believe
I got no choice
I'm out of control
And I love it

I'm a non-believer
I refuse and resist
I don't play no more
I'm a terrorist
I'm a radical pig
I exploit and abuse
I am total chaos
Strange and abstruse

I'm a cheatin' liar
I am naked terror
I hurt, I wound
I'm a fatal error

I don't make sense
I got my pride
Don't need no meaning
I feel no shame
I will not believe
I got no choice
I'm out of control
And I love it

I don't make sense
I got my pride
Don't need no meaning
I feel no shame
I will not believe
I got no choice
I'm out of control
And the kids just love it

I'm a man who's sick
But I got class
'Coz you only get respect
When you're kickin' ass

I don't make sense
But I got my pride
I need no meaning
I feel no shame
I will not believe
That I got no choice
I'm out of control
But I love it

I don't make sense
I got my pride
Don't need no meaning
I feel no shame
I will not believe
I got no choice
I'm out of control
And the kids just love it

Non-compliance, non-aggressive
Non-contagious, non-involvement
Non-productive, non-religious
Non-resistant, non-subjective

I don't make sense
Don't need no meaning
I don't make sense
Don't need no meaning
I will not believe
I will not believe
I will not believe
I will not believe
I will not believe
I will not believe
I will not

05. Terror

Music & lyrics by Sascha Konietzko, En Esch, Gunter Shultz, Mark Durante, Chris Shepard,
I try to keep my faith alive
I'm close enough to trip the wire
I cannot keep my hate inside
I'm gonna set myself on fire
I get closer beat by beat
To get the thing I really need
I'm fucking terrified
Will you be ever satisfied?

Day after day innocent people are being deported, interrogated and tortured, put through the third degree
Fundamentalist forces are undermining the integrity of liberal and democratic political structures
Radical anarchists, fascists and terrorists are responsible for the violence

I try to keep my faith alive
I'm close enough to trip the wire
I cannot keep my hate inside
I'm gonna set myself on fire
I get closer beat by beat
To get the thing I really need
I'm fucking terrified
Will you be ever satisfied?

Our societies are saturated with bloodlust, sensationalism and violence as a result of alienation from oneself's reality
How much longer do we tolerate mass murder?

I try to keep my faith alive
I'm close enough to trip the wire
I cannot keep my hate inside
I'm gonna set myself on fire

Hand-cuffs and shackles won't frighten us
Neither cattle-prod nor electrical-whip will silence us
We shall use all peaceful means to overcome tyranny
Persist and march on
They can't use our shame against us
Regardless of race, social status or gender
We're all affected

I try to keep my faith alive
I'm close enough to trip the wire
I cannot keep my hate inside
I'm gonna set myself on fire
I get closer beat by beat
To get the thing I really need
I get closer beat by beat
To get the thing I really need
I get closer beat by beat
To get the thing I really need
I'm fucking terrified
Will you be ever satisfied?

06. Search And Destroy

Music & lyrics by Sascha Konietzko, En Esch, Gunter Shultz
Will we close our eyes
Will we fall for those lies
Or will we make the conclusion
That this life's a delusion?

Will we do what we're told
'Til the day that we're sold
Or will we raise our voices
Make alternative choices?

What's up?
Our silence is death
What's up?
We shall resist the violence
What's up?
And we'll never give up
What's up?
Only death is silence

Are we victims or winners
Believers or sinners?
Do we sit in the saddle
Or are we just cattle?

Are we wretched or bold?
Are we garbage or gold?
Can we make the right call?
Can we change it at all?

What's up?
Our silence is death
What's up?
We shall resist the violence
What's up?
And we'll never give up
What's up?
Only death is silence

Acceptance is surrender
Vile and vicious slander
We don't want to be ruled
By a handful of fools

What's up?
Our silence is death
What's up?
We shall resist the violence
What's up?
And we'll never give up
What's up?
Only death is silence

What's up?
Our silence is death
What's up?
We shall resist the violence
What's up?
And we'll never give up
What's up?
Only death is silence

Will we close our eyes
Will we fall for those lies
Or will we make the conclusion
That this life's a delusion?

07. Disobedience

Music & lyrics by Sascha Konietzko, En Esch, Gunter Shultz, Mark Durante, Chris Shepard,
This is the throne where hatred keeps
What is sown is never reaped
This is the blindness that you need
This is the vein on which you feed

Surrender
It's just one twist
I will surrender
My aching wrist
I can't remember
It's never enough
I will surrender
It's never enough

Oh my darling
One for all and all for one
Give me reason
The quest for truth
Give me something
Disobedient yet responsive
To believe in
Out of darkness there will be light

Close your eyes
Close your eyes

This is the dignity that you felt
This is the gutter where you have knelt

Surrender
It's just one twist
I will surrender
My aching wrist
I can't remember
It's never enough
I will surrender
It's never enough

This is your wretched, heavin' high
These are the shamed, the damned, the blamed
I can smell the slowly spreadin' stain
Oh, the burden of shame

Surrender
It's just one twist
I will surrender
My aching wrist
I can't remember
It's never enough
I will surrender
It's never enough

Oh my darling
It's a war with no winners
Give me reason
When violence hits home
Give me something
Ignorance is your religion
To believe in
Take this spear and heal thyself

Close your eyes
Close your eyes

Disobedient
One too many lies
Disobedient
It's the greatest swindle
Disobedient
Everything falls into place
Disobedient
Take these words and feel thyself

This is your wretched, heavin' high
These are the shamed, the damned, the blamed
I can smell the slowly spreadin' stain
Oh, the burden of shame

Oh my darling
Give me reason
Give me something
To believe in

08. Revolution

Music & lyrics by Sascha Konietzko, En Esch, Gunter Shultz
In fear of my life
I went suddenly crazy
Surrounded by beasts
In a world of disease

I'm in fear, I'm in anger
I'm in a desperate state
I will be careful now
And I will make no mistake

What's gonna happen?
I need to know
I don't want to suffer
Is it yes or is it no?

If there's a hard way
It's gotta be mine
But I learned my lesson
And I'm gonna be fine

What's gonna happen?
I need to know
I don't want to suffer
Is it yes or is it no?

It's the end of this world
Something's gone wrong
Give me one last kiss
Revolution has begun

What's gonna happen?
I need to know
I don't want to suffer
Is it yes or is it no?

It's the end of this world
Something's gone wrong
Give me one last kiss
Revolution has begun

It's the end of this world
Something must end
Time is right for a change
It is all in our hands

What's gonna happen?
What's gonna happen?
What's gonna happen?
Nobody knows

09. Brute

Music & lyrics by Sascha Konietzko, En Esch, Gunter Shultz, Raymond Watts
Between the liquor, the bed, the noise in my head
Between your mind and my crime
And me in the grime
Between the gun, the lead, the lies that I said
Through your sweet breath
Comes the dawn of my death

Touch me, hate me
Give yourself to me and break me
Cut these eyes and I will see
Kiss these lying lips for me
Stroke this skin and I will kneel
Brutalize me, I will heal

Between the bullet, my lip
And the lies you let slip
Between the dirt of this soul
Your heart that's a hole
Between the place where you hit
And this face where you spit
Through your sweet breath
Comes the dawn of my death

Touch me, hate me
Give yourself to me and break me
Cut these eyes and I will see
Kiss these lying lips for me
Stroke this skin and I will kneel
Brutalize me, I will heal

Cut these eyes and I will see
Kiss these lying lips for me
Stroke this skin and I will kneel
Brutalize me I will heal

Cut these eyes and I will see
Kiss these lying lips for me
Stroke this skin and I will kneel
Brutalize me, I will heal

Cut these eyes, I will see
Kiss those lying lips for me
Stroke this skin, I will kneel
Brutalize me, I will heal

Cut these eyes and I will see
Kiss these lying lips for me
Stroke this skin and I will kneel
Brutalize me, I will heal

10. Trust

Music & lyrics by Sascha Konietzko, Gunter Shultz
Submit and reveal
What you hide and conceal
Open up and enable
Put your cards on the table

Conquer and define
Your life is on the line
Roll up and blackout
No time to hesitate and doubt

Take what you're being given
Make your stand
'Coz the life that you're living
May soon come to an end
Do what you can
What you want, what you must
Feel the hunger inside
Hold on to your trust

Confess and purge
Experience every urge
Approach and achieve
Strengthen your beliefs

Admit and defend
Your emotions 'coz they send
Out the message that it's you
And that's the only thing that's true

Do what you can
What you want, what you must
Feel the hunger inside
Hold on to your trust
Do what you can
What you want, what you must
Feel the hunger inside
Don't lose your trust

Safe and secure
Never be too sure
Show and tell
Until you go to hell

Love and hate
You're destined by fate
Play and work
Enjoy your time on earth

Do what you can
What you want, what you must
Feel the hunger inside
Hold on to your trust
Only death is eternal
Make no mistake
What it all comes down to
Night shall overtake

Do what you can
What you want, what you must
Feel the hunger inside
Hold on to your trust
Do what you can
What you want, what you must
Feel the hunger inside
Don't lose your trust

Do what you can
You're a beautiful child
Do what you want
From a beautiful land
Do what you can
Lift the curse on me
Do what you want
Could you live without me?
Do what you can
Just one way
Do what you want
One last kiss
Do what you must
Gimme the bullet
Don't lose your trust