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Arbeit Macht Fleisch Lyrics
Prognathous gears grind
So diligent and serrated they mesh
Toothed cogs churn
So trechant, against soft flesh
Worked to the bone
Up to the hilt, depredated
Raw materialism
To stoke the furnaces
Toiling, rotting
Life slowly slips away
Consumed, inhumed
In this mechanized corruption line
By mincing machinery industrialised - pulped and pulverised
Enslaved to the grind
Blood, sweat, toil, tears
Arbeit macht frei/fleisch
Grave to the grind
Inimitable gears twist
To churn a living grave
Stainless cogs shredding
Scathing pistons bludgeon and flail
Stripping to the bone
Retund mandrels levigate
Just raw material
Your pound of flesh for the suzerain
Toiling, rotting
Life slowly dissipates
Consumed, inhumed
In a corruption line, mechanized
By mincing machinery, industrialized - crunched and brutalised
A grave to the blind
So diligent and serrated they mesh
Toothed cogs churn
So trechant, against soft flesh
Worked to the bone
Up to the hilt, depredated
Raw materialism
To stoke the furnaces
Toiling, rotting
Life slowly slips away
Consumed, inhumed
In this mechanized corruption line
By mincing machinery industrialised - pulped and pulverised
Enslaved to the grind
Arbeit macht frei/fleisch
To churn a living grave
Stainless cogs shredding
Scathing pistons bludgeon and flail
Stripping to the bone
Retund mandrels levigate
Just raw material
Your pound of flesh for the suzerain
Toiling, rotting
Life slowly dissipates
Consumed, inhumed
In a corruption line, mechanized
By mincing machinery, industrialized - crunched and brutalised
A grave to the blind
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my favorite carcass song along with Blind Bleeding The Blind, This Mortal Coil, and.. most of the songs from Swan Song (GET THAT CD!)... these guys rock. if you're into fast heavy speed metal, check them out for sure!!
carcass = inspiration for dan of zao. wheeeeeeeee.
aint Zao some kinda fucking christian outfit? thats what I heard at www.returntothepit.net.
What language is the title of this song taken from? And what does it mean?
German. Work makes meat.
German. Work makes meat.
It's in German and it means Work Brings Flesh/meat. Arbeit Macht Frei means Work Brings Freedom, which is written on a sign over the gates of Auschwitz. so the song might be a nzi death camp or comparing modern society/industry/government, etc to a death camp.
*might be about a nazi death camp
Exactly. And for more Arbeit Macht Frei fun, listen to The Intense Humming Of Evil by Manic Street Preachers, also about the holocaust.
lol
"aint Zao some kinda fucking christian outfit? thats what I heard at www.returntothepit.net."
Yeah, Zao is a Christian band.
its about the devastating effect manual labor has.