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KMFDM – Total State Machine (2017) | Track profile | Dork

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KMFDM
HELL YEAH
Total State Machine

TRACK

Total State Machine

Release date: 18th August 2017

About This Track

"Total State Machine" is a track by KMFDM, from the album HELL YEAH, released 18th August 2017. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

KMFDM

KMFDM

Lyrics

Total State Machine

Your government hates you

Hates you 'cause you're free

Can't be fooled, won't be ruled

By the total state machine

Control, control, homogenize

Going through great lengths

Fascist blight won't recognize

Diversity is human strength

Zeroed in on, hollowed out

Eroded and run down

The grand ideals and principles

By which we once were bound

Your government hates you

Your government hates you

Your government hates you

Your government hates you

Your government hates you

Your government hates you

Your government hates you

Your government hates you

Our government hates us

They hate us, you and me

Right by right being taken away

By the total state machine

Barren words, abject deeds

Paranoia to the Nth degree

Despotic rule by fire and sword

Lady Liberty's been raped and cored

Zeroed in on, hollowed out

Eroded and run down

The grand ideals and principles

By which we once were bound

Your government hates you

Your government hates you

Your government hates you

Your government hates you

Your government hates you (Hates you)

Your government hates you

(And you, and you, and you)

Your government hates you too

Our governments hate us

Because we're not afraid

Unimpressed, we won't be silenced

Never lose our faith

Your government hates you

Your government hates you

Your government hates you

Your government hates you

Your government hates you

Your government hates you

Your government hates you

Hate your government

You hate your government

Your government hates you

Hate your government

You hate your government

Your government hates you

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Track details

From HELL YEAH

2017

Listen

Album

Release year

2017

—Freak Flag
—Fake News
—Oppression 1/2
—Oppression 2/2
—Only Lovers
—Rx 4 the Damned
—Shock
—Burning Brain
—Glam, Glitz, Guts & Gore
—Rip the System v. 2.0
—Total State Machine
—Murder My Heart
—Hell Yeah

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Sascha Konietzko
Composer: Sascha Konietzko
Producer: Lucia Cifarelli, Sascha Konietzko
Bass: Sascha Konietzko
Drums: Andy Selway, Sascha Konietzko
Guitar: Chris Harms
Vocals: Chris Harms
Lead Vocals: Sascha Konietzko
Synthesizer: Sascha Konietzko