Their music is Electronic that rocks. It’s romance which sinks its poison teeth deep into your flesh.
Warren Suicide originated 2003 in a loft in Neukölln, Berlin. Two men, Nackt and Fremdkörper, were working on songs in the studio, they were looking for a sound, a character. Cherie was sitting in the kitchen, heard the notes and drew a strange figure onto the paper in front of her. A small face appeared in, the outlines slightly contorted, the body of the slender figure, asexual, thin arms and legs. It smiled carefully, the teeth looking like those of a fish, the eyes with the look of a new-born baby, but wide open. Warren Suicide was born.
Next door, the first song was created, starting with the words: “Hello, hello, my name is Warren Suicide”. Ever since then, the musicians, the music and Warren existed, unseperable also in reality. Warren is no invisible band member or some cartoon character as it’s the case with Gorillaz – he is an essence, he activates the musicians - Warren Suicide lies somewhere between the imaginable and the apprehended.
In April 2006, the first album was released on Fume Records in England, and listening to it in its entirety one knows: the great thing about Warren Suicide is that they can’t be compared with anyone else because what they do has never been done before. It’s spaced out and commercial but deep down inside it’s anarchic and unsettled.
The band has also caused an irritating stir mainly abroad (Europe / USA) when playing festivals and club tours – with their ecstatic mixture of Electrofuzz, Punk, Pop and Comic-Visuals. The BBC invited them to play a radio gig, currently Gods of Blitz and Duné are getting remixes by the band – in the past artists such as Placebo, Dub Pistols and Die Happy worked with Warren Suicide on their remixes. Yoko Ono loves them and at the end of last year, they supported IAMX on his European tour, as well as supporting
Northern Lite on selected dates. At the moment, Placebo’s producer Dimitri is working on a new album with Warren Suicide which is scheduled to be released in Spring 2008.
Apart from their remixing and theatre activities ("Das trunkene Schiff", "Die Leiden des jungen Werther", both theatre plays in Frankfurt) Warren Suicide have brought to life a unique festival called Signal – the Berlin string theory with “party arty Diktator” Yaneq (p-pack) and Ben Lauber (Transporterraum). This an art and music project which has brought together a large number of bands and artists such as Pitchtuner, Elke (Paula), Dirk von Lowtzow (Tocotronic), Jovanka v. Willsdorf (Quarks), Gina D´orio vs Soffie O.,Susie van der Meer and Gods of Blitz to name but a few. They re-recorded a few songs with a string quartet at the ChezCherie, the Warren Suicide studio. The paintings which were created at the same time by Party Arty painter and the album created by all artists will be released as a limited edition at the beginning of next year.
Warren Suicide is starting to have an effect on other areas as well – for example on the
soundtrack of Wim Wender’s “Land of Plenty”. Excessive parties: “Signal 1” at Kreuzberg’s ballroom where more than 100 international artists and musicians united and let off steam for 4 days under the Warren Suicide motto “We got a signal”. Exhibitions of Cheries artwork and paintings. At Munich’s Prinzregententheater at the staging of Becketts “Godot”. Sometimes even in the background, for example the playstation games “Grandtourismo” and “Driver”.
Warren Suicide: they are unpredictable – thrown into life by people who step out of a drawing on paper, onto the stage, into the world where he reaches the most remote parts of the world – he still isn’t pretty - that’s what you get when your name reflects what you are and what you can become.. every single day we voluntarily die a bit more.
Warren Suicide however is the power that nourishes you because he is not afraid of anything in this world. Not of unfinished sentences – or even life itself !
Land of the Free
Warren Suicide Lyrics
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The dream is over
Let the cry and hug them closely
Listen to their story
I can't dream with my birds on top of the world
Flying in circles between us and the sun
Ancient peoples explain what they do to stay
Love you neighbors and be crucified
Do it from the sky
Creating the most beautiful sound and after centuries
People knew the manatees
And sang along
Land of the free, God's with you
A perfect sky
A perfect life
Land of the free
A mighty love
We'll always be
Always be
We'll always be
Always
To get all of the singing people rose up to reach the birds
It so confusing that they lost control and orientation
And in order to resolve themselves
They might have set off
To start the music
And in the blink of an eye they were all gone.
Land of the free, God's with you
A perfect sky
A perfect life
Land of the free
A mighty love
We'll always be
Always be
Land of the free, God's with you
A perfect sky
A perfect life
Land of the free
A mighty love
We'll always be
Always be
We'll always be
Always
The song "Land of the Free" by Warren Suicide seems to be an apocalyptic vision of a world that has lost its way. The opening lines "Wake the kingdom, bring them home, the dream is over" suggest that there has been some kind of reckoning or catastrophic event that has brought an end to the world as we know it. The rest of the lyrics can be interpreted as a call to arms to save what is left of humanity. The line "Let the cry and hug them closely, listen to their story" can be seen as an appeal to empathy and a call to embrace our fellow beings in order to survive.
The following lines seem to suggest that the key to survival is in reconnecting with nature and the earth: "I can't dream with my birds on top of the world, flying in circles between us and the sun". The lines "Ancient peoples explain what they do to stay, flying on top of you" could be interpreted as a reference to indigenous cultures who have a closer connection to the natural world and may hold the key to surviving the apocalypse.
The repetition of "Land of the free" throughout the song echoes the famous phrase in the US national anthem, but here it takes on a more ominous tone. It suggests that the ideal of freedom has been corrupted and that we have strayed far from the values that we once held dear.
Line by Line Meaning
Wake the kingdom, bring them home
Rally the citizens, bring them together
The dream is over
The idealistic vision has come to an end
Let the cry and hug them closely
Listen to their pain and comfort them
Listen to their story
Hear the experiences and struggles of the people
I can't dream with my birds on top of the world
I cannot imagine freedom when there are oppressed people in the world
Flying in circles between us and the sun
The oppressed are stuck in a cycle of struggle, unable to break free
Ancient peoples explain what they do to stay
Previous generations have passed down knowledge on how to survive
Flying on top of you
The weight of oppression is pervasive
Love you neighbors and be crucified
Loving others can be painful or difficult
Do it from the sky
Perform acts of love from a higher perspective
Creating the most beautiful sound and after centuries
Over time, something beautiful can be created
People knew the manatees
Knowledge is power, people learned about new things
And sang along
People celebrated and enjoyed what they learned
Land of the free, God's with you
The United States is blessed and guided by a higher power
A perfect sky
The sky represents hope and beauty
A perfect life
The American dream represents the ideal life
A mighty love
The power of love can conquer all
We'll always be
The American spirit and values will endure
To get all of the singing people rose up to reach the birds
People united in song, yearning for freedom
It so confusing that they lost control and orientation
The struggle for freedom can be chaotic and disorienting
And in order to resolve themselves
To find a solution to their struggle
They might have set off
They may have embarked on a new journey
To start the music
To begin a new era of freedom
And in the blink of an eye they were all gone.
The dream of freedom can disappear just as quickly as it appeared
Contributed by Peyton E. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Halo
on Butcher Boy (Radio Edit)
Lyrics, from what I can make out at least, since there are none
Now as the king of this world
was passing by upon the wall
A mother cried out to him and said
help my lord, help my lord
oh king
I'm in trouble
I'm in trouble
What
What
What is your trouble?
Mother!
This woman said to me...
This woman...
said to me...
give your son that we can eat him
give your son that we can eat him
give your son that we can eat him
Boy... My dirty boy
My dirty boy
My dirty boy
My dirty butcher boy
Boy... My dirty boy
My dirty boy
My dirty boy
My dirty butcher boy
What's the way to get rid of me?
What's the way to get rid of me?
What's the way to get rid of me?
What's the way to get rid of me?
What's the way to get rid of me?
What's the way to get rid of me?
What's the way to get rid of me?
What's the way to get rid of me?
Rid of me...
Rid of me...
What's the way to get rid of me?
Boy... My dirty boy
My dirty boy
My dirty boy
My dirty butcher boy
Boy... My dirty boy
My dirty boy
My dirty boy
My dirty boy
My dirty boy
My dirty boy
My dirty boy
My dirty butcher boy