Description
A hot city in the sticky skin of summer, where the air shimmers with electricity and it seems as if the concrete walls themselves are watching your every step. The streets are noisy and restless, but underground is a universe of its own. There, no one asks your name, checks your documents, or demands explanations. There is only a rhythm that beats like a heart and strangers' lips that suddenly become too close.
Sparks run along the wires, breath catches in the darkness, masks fall away of their own accord. Everything turns into friction - the very thing from which both freedom and desire are born. It seems that all you have to do is touch it, and the tension will be released, but there is meaning in this tension. Don't resist, don't run away, but let it burn.
Lyrics and translation
Original
The city skin
It fits too tight
In the late, hot summer sweat, the kids come lookin' for a fight
And everywhere
The sirens call
And the gods that built these walls are takin' bets to watch you fall
But in the underground, there are no names
Just a kick-drum heartbeat pounding insane
On stranger's lips and in our veins
We grind out the freedom with our chains, it's the friction
Come closer to me, can I breathe you? I need to
Come closer to me, do you know what you do? It's the friction
Come closer to me, can I breathe you? I need to
Come closer to me, do you know what you do? It's the friction
The static sparks
Across the wires
And the wind blows in from elsewhere, catching embers of desire
But the flames
Are in our hearts
And the longing floods, the circuit, we peel our masks off in the dark
But in the underground, there are no names
Just a kick-drum heartbeat pounding insane
On stranger's lips and in our veins
We grind out the freedom with our chains, it's the friction
Come closer to me, can I breathe you? I need to
Come closer to me, do you know what you do? It's the friction
Come closer to me, can I breathe you? I need to
Come closer to me, do you know what you do? It's the friction
Come closer to me, can I breathe you? I need to
Come closer to me, do you know what you do? It's the friction
Come closer to me, can I breathe you? I need to
Come closer to me, do you know what you do? It's the friction
It's the friction
English translation
The city skin
It fits too tight
In the late, hot summer sweat, the kids come lookin' for a fight
And everywhere
The sirens call
And the gods that built these walls are takin' bets to watch you fall
But in the underground, there are no names
Just a kick-drum heartbeat pounding insane
On stranger's lips and in our veins
We grind out the freedom with our chains, it's the friction
Come closer to me, can I breathe you? I need to
Come closer to me, do you know what you do? It's the friction
Come closer to me, can I breathe you? I need to
Come closer to me, do you know what you do? It's the friction
The static sparks
Across the wires
And the wind blows in from elsewhere, catching embers of desire
But the flames
Are in our hearts
And the longing floods, the circuit, we peel our masks off in the dark
But in the underground, there are no names
Just a kick-drum heartbeat pounding insane
On stranger's lips and in our veins
We grind out the freedom with our chains, it's the friction
Come closer to me, can I breathe you? I need to
Come closer to me, do you know what you do? It's the friction
Come closer to me, can I breathe you? I need to
Come closer to me, do you know what you do? It's the friction
Come closer to me, can I breathe you? I need to
Come closer to me, do you know what you do? It's the friction
Come closer to me, can I breathe you? I need to
Come closer to me, do you know what you do? It's the friction
It's the friction