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Kleines R​ä​dchen

from ISM by Totraffen

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+++ Kleines Raedchen +++

Kleines Raedchen dreht sich - Im Uhrwerk des Systems
Seit Jahren nun dagegen - Und bringt manch Funkenspruehn
Das Uhrwerk ist ein altes - Zermuerbt so manchen Zahn
Und kleines Raedchen denkt sich - Ich halt dagegen an

Es reibt sich an dem starren Fluss - Von Tonnen festem Stahl
In Einheit schreitet Zeit vorbei - Und dreht ein jedes Rad
Kleines Raedchen sieht mit an - Wie Goldlack fuegig macht
Und rostet lieber stoerend weg - Weil Rosten freier macht

REF 1: Die Damen und Herren Ingenieure
Betrachten mit Bedacht
Das kleine Raedchen taeglich
Ob es wohl Aerger macht
Die Damen und Herren Ingenieure
Schuetzen ihr System
Das Werk muss zeigen ihre Zeit
Sonst werden sie vergehen

Kleines Raedchen – nicht allein - Findet so manches Rad
Dass auch gegen die Menge dreht - So schliesst rad sich zusamm
In einem Teil des Uhrwerks - Laeuft schon ne andere Zeit
Und Hoffnung schimmert durch - Der Umschwung komme bald

REF 1b: Die Damen und Herren Ingenieure
Betrachten mit Bedacht
Das kleine Raedchen taeglich
Ob es wohl Aerger macht
Die Damen und Herren Ingenieure
Schuetzen ihr System
Das Werk muss zeigen ihre Zeit
Sonst werden sie vergehen

Kleines Raedchen ist nun Teil - Eines eignen Systems
Welches sich nun unison - Gegen das grosse dreht
Der Rost der bleibt - doch weniger - Tut’s gegen drehen weh
So laesst sichs leben immerfort - Bis das Uhrwerk zerfaellt

REF: Die Damen und Herren Ingenieure
Sitzen traeg zur Mittagsstund
Lachen mit dicken Baeuchen
Sie haben guten Grund
Die Damen und Herren Ingenieure
Haben schon laengst ausrangiert
Die andersdrehnden Raeder
Sie drehn sich nur um sich selbst

ENDE: Kleines Raedchen merkt es nicht
Kleines Raedchen sieht es nicht
Kleines Raedchen dreht sich weiter
Um die eigne Achs’

Dass Rost zu Goldlack nun mutiert
Dass Widerstand geduldet
Dass gegen drehen nun entschaerft
Hast du nicht gesehen

Dein Gegen Drehen wie Stillstand ist
Bedeutungslos im Kampf
Brich Dir nen Zacken aus der Krone
Und fang von vorne an

+++++++++++++++++

Was soll das Lied? Ich habe da so an bestimmte Szene und Nieschen Existenzen Gedacht wo die eigentliche Sache sich verloren hat.
This song is about 'scene' complacency. It is written metaphorically about a wheel in the system that keeps turning against the imposed flow and the wheel does not realise that the system allows it to do so

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English translation:

The little wheel

The little wheel, it turns - In the clockwork of the system
For years now it has been turning against it - And brings some scintillation
The clockwork is an old one - crushes so many cogs
And the little wheel thinks – “I’ll go right against it”

It rubs against the rigid stream - Of tons of solid steel
In unity, time passes - and turns every wheel
The little wheel has to watch - How gold coating makes wheels go to conform
And it rusts rather disturbingly away - Because rusting makes freer

CH 1: The madams and sirs engineers
watch with suspicion
The little wheel every day
To see whether it makes mistakes
The madams and sirs engineers
Protect their clockwork-system
The work must show their time
Otherwise they’ll cease to exist

The little wheel - not alone - Finds many like itself
That also turn against the crowd - So they band together
In one part of the clockwork – there already runs another time
And hope shimmers through - The turnaround will come soon

CH 1: The madams and sirs engineers
watch with suspicion
The little wheel every day
To see whether it makes mistakes
The madams and sirs engineers
Protect their clockwork-system
The work must show their time
Otherwise they’ll cease to exist

The little wheel is now part of a system of its own
Which turns unison - against the big one
The rust remains - but less and less does it hurt to turn against the flow
That's the way to live - until the clock goes down

CH 2: The madams and sirs engineers
Sitting at the afternoon lunch
Laughing and holding their big bellies
They have good reason, too
The madams and sirs engineers
Have already dislodged these wheels from the clockwork long time ago
The differently rotating wheels
They only turn around themselves

Outro: The little wheel does not notice
The little wheel does not see it
The little wheel continues to turn
around its own axle

That rust now mutates into gold paint
That resistance is being tolerated
That turning against now defuses
You did not see

Your counter-rotation is like deadlock
Insignificant for the struggle
Lose your face
And start from the beginning

credits

from ISM, released April 1, 2018
Music and lyrics: Totraffen
Backings: Schuni

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Anti Machine Records is a punk and hardcore label from Perth, WA. AMR releases predominantly online and many of the downloads are for free with a donation option. Most bands are either from Berlin / Germany or Perth and I either recorded and/or mixed these releases here on bandcamp or/and I played myself in these bands. So it's all more or less family.

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