Satellite City
Terrorgruppe Lyrics

Satellite city - suburbia
The song describes a suburban area designed and built as a self-contained community with minimal need to travel outside the area for basic necessities.

Concrete wall utopia
The community is constructed with concrete walls to keep its residents isolated from the outside world, creating an artificial utopia.

City center - two hours distance
The city's center is far away from the suburbia, takes two hours to reach, indicating its residents have limited access to the opportunities the city provides.

Wake up - work - go sleep - existence
The residents' daily routine consists of nothing but waking up, working, and sleeping, signifying a monotonic and meaningless existence.

"why are we here, mum & pa?"
The residents question the reason behind living in a place like that.

The men who built this were insane
The song implies that the people responsible for creating such a place had little regard for the human experience and that the community was the product of madness.

The road to nowhere's got 10 lanes
The road network of the suburbia is unnecessarily extensive and not leading to anywhere, with ten lanes, emphasizing the absurdity of the design.

Shopping centers - towerblocks
The suburbia has all the necessary facilities, including shopping centers and towering apartment buildings.

Living in a concrete box
The apartment buildings have uniformed and boxed architecture, presenting a lack of diversity or uniqueness.

It's where we belong to
Despite the criticism, people are accustomed to and have accepted such a living.

Stuck in like a pot of glue
The metaphor used to mention that the residents are trapped and can't leave the area as if glued in this suburbia.

Drugstores, malls, and plastic bags
The residents' lifestyle revolves around the shopping facilities, and plastic bags signify the mass-consumption culture.

Highways, car wash, parking decks
The suburbia's infrastructure serves car-centric transportation, with highway, car wash, and parking decks being prominent features.

Teenage fears - insomnia
The teenage residents have anxiety and sleeping disorders, which can arise from an unhealthy living environment, indicating potential negative impacts of such living on human health.

Small town minds and prejudice
The residents have a narrow-minded worldview and harbor bias towards other people, likely due to the lack of exposure to other cultures and experiences brought by living in an isolated community.

Dead end street necropolis
The community is a metaphorical dead-end, as there is no hope of escape or growth from living there, and the area's sterile design feels like a city of the dead.

Gang warfare phenomena
Gang violence is rampant in such areas, offering a way of expressing oneself outside of the mundaneness of suburban life.

Out of school and into prison
Young people without opportunities may engage in criminal activities and, as a result, end up in prison, with a lack of guidance, education, and support from the community leading to such outcomes.

Architectural modernism
Reference to the architectural movement of modernism, which puts an emphasis on function over form and simplicity in design.

Take your shit and let's prepare
The song implies that the residents need to leave everything they own and prepare to move out.

We go elsewhere, anywhere
The community's residents need to leave the area and move to any other place that suits them better and provides better opportunities.

Cause anywhere's better than here
The current place is unbearable, and any other place would be a better option for the residents.

It's time to disappear
The people should disappear from the suburban nightmare, leaving the past behind and starting anew.

We've lost so many years
People have been living in such a place for years without noticing that they have lost precious years of life being there.

Leaving this suburban nightmare
Time to abandon the suburbia, with a reference to it being a nightmare implies that it was not a good place to live.

We go somewhere, anywhere
The residents plan to move out and go anywhere that feels more like home, regardless of where it is.

Let's go and disappear
People should disappear from the suburbia with a hope of finding a better place, and potentially starting anew from scratch.

We've lost our best years
Again, the phrase signifies that people wasted their best years living in an oppressive and depressing environment.