Okay, alright, bear with me on this, because it’s a little esoteric. In my defense though, most KMFDM is pretty esoteric, but I digress.
K’s lyricism has, I think, always tried to stab at the heart of “the modern youth,” to varying degrees of success. Somewhat ironically, Megalomaniac succeeded in...
When your world is built on golden walls
You don't chase after dreams
I knew nothing of tears and pain
The rock, the vulture, and the chain
On the prowl for skin and bone to tear
I'm a skeleton looking for meat to wear
The abject gift, eternity
Making death a victory
The sum of human wretchedness
Enter the arena
Laughing all the way through the night
I am hyena
To me the strife was given by
Your godlike condemnation
I roam the badlands, and my tracks
Leave trails of dеvastation
In a paradise of locusts
Where bladе and rifle rule the land
All seven senses sharply focused
I gallivant, hyena
In your silence lies my sentence
In my soul, a vague repentance
An evil dread, so ill dissembled
And in its grip, the lightning trembles
Lick my heart
It will poison you
Bad luck I am
Shunned by the world
Excrement
The grave cave ate
Rotten flesh
Filth and dirt
The sum of human wretchedness
Enter the arena
Laughing all the way through the night
I am hyena
[Hyena howls and laughs]
In a paradise of locusts
Where blade and rifle rule the land
All seven senses sharply focused
I gallivant, hyena
Hyena
[Hyena laughs]
HYËNA was written by Sascha Konietzko.
HYËNA was produced by Sascha Konietzko.