Pop Will Eat Itself - Ich Bin Ein Auslander

I've been thinking about this song a lot recently, partially because PWEI are touring in a couple of weeks, but more significantly because it is ambiguous enough to apply to a whole range of global tragedies at the moment where people are loosing their lives and their shit and their governments and fellow citizens are often doing very little to protect or support them.






Listen to the victim, abused by the system
The basis is racist, you know that we must face this
It can't happen here (oh yeah?)
Take a look around at the cities and the towns

See them hunting, creeping, sneaking
Breeding fear and loathing with the lies they're speaking
The knife, the gun, broken bottle, petrol bomb
There is no future when the past soon come

And when they come to ethnically cleanse me
Will you speak out? Will you defend me?
Or laugh through a glass eye as they rape our lives
Trampled under foot by the rise of the Right


Ich Bin Ein Auslander, Ich Bin Ein Auslander
Ich Bin Ein Auslander, Ich Bin Ein Auslander

Welcome to a state, where the politics of hate
Shout loud in the crowd, watch them beat us all down
There's a rising tide on the rivers of blood
But if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence
If they come to ethnically cleanse me
Will you speak out? Will you defend me?
Freedom of expression doesn't make it all right
Trampled under foot by the rise of the Right

Ich Bin Ein Auslander, Ich Bin Ein Auslander
Ich Bin Ein Auslander, Ich Bin Ein Auslander
Ich Bin Ein Auslander, Ich Bin Ein Auslander
Ich Bin Ein Auslander, Ich Bin Ein Auslander