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Translation
Totalitarian Rap
Donnerwetter!
Totalitarian rap - for us it's no laugh,
Totalitarian rap - it's a fact,
Totalitarian rap has been formed over years
Of sirens' howl and war-dog bark.
Totalitarian rap - it's a variant of
Reconstruction of churches to dumps
Totalitarian rap - it's a step dance,
One step forward and two steps back.
Totalitarian rap - it's a tight-rope dancer,
Totalitarian rap - it's an act,
Totalitarian rap - it is an abstract carrot,
And a completely specific fist whack.
Totalitarian rap - it's an experiment
On reprogramming of common folk minds.
Totalitarian rap - it's a tender voice saying:
Stop! Produce your state Ausweis!
Totalitarian rap - it's an aquarium
For all those who used to be fond of the sea.
Totalitarian rap - it's an animal zoo
Where you are behind bars like flea.
Totalitarian rap - it's an auction trade floor
Where you are for sale, you as well may be bought.
Totalitarian rap - it's a jungle
Where life beats, although strange is the thought.
Totalitarian rap - it's a TV set screen,
It rules over us, it instructs how to live.
Totalitarian rap - it's a movie dream,
But about films I am unable to speak.
Totalitarian rap - it's electric shock fun games,
Some kind of break dance.
Totalitarian rap - it's a discotheque,
Where discs are being spun by machine gunner Hans.
Totalitarian rap - as old as the world
It's an attraction that's still here with us.
And fun hall of mirrors from chamber of torture
Still a door separates not by chance.
And open society has its own voice,
Yet the covert surveillance's on guard.
And if you are chosen as shooting point target,
Then no doubt you'll be shot point blank.
Totalitarian rap - it's just a miniature model
Of the deaf-mute society toll,
And if in addition they lack proper vision,
Then this is only better for all.
You might say to me: "You're a poser.
My dear, you are maximalist!"
I'd answer you: "Nonsense, Mein Führer!
I'm merely an antifascist!"
One, two... Tir-tir-tir...
One, two... New Commander fit the bill...
singable
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Submitted by St. Sol on 2016-12-17
Last edited by St. Sol on 2019-02-14
Author's comments:
Rhythmic translation for singing along.
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Original German words are spelled in German.
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This is an epic anthem about Soviet totalitarian
reality of the 1980's with multiple obscure
references to Lenin's works (One step forward,
Two steps back), Soviet industrialization
(Reconstruction: churches into warehouses and
dumps), Nazi invasion of 1941 (produce your
ID card, to prove you are not a Communist, Jew,
or other persecuted by Nazis), TV use for mind
control, "open society" of mid-1980's, and the
author's rejection of all forms of totalitarianism.
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