The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
I am the one, orgasmatron
The outstretched grasping hand
My image is of agony
My servants rape the land
Obsequious and arrogant
Clandestine and pain
Two thousand years of misery
Of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount
Paranoia the law
My name is called religion
Sadistic, sacred, whore
I twist the truth
I rule the world
My crown is called deceit
I am the emperor of lies
You grovel at my feet
I rob you and I slaughter you
Your downfall is my gain
And still, you play the sycophant
And revel in your pain
And all my promises are lies
And all my love is hate
I am the politician
And I decide your fate
I march before a martyred world
An army for the fight
I speak of great heroic days
Of victory and might
I hold a banner drenched in blood
I urge you to be brave
I lead you to your destiny
I lead you to your grave
Your bones will build my palaces
Your eyes will stud my crown
For I am Mars the god of war
And I will cut you down
The outstretched grasping hand
My image is of agony
My servants rape the land
Obsequious and arrogant
Clandestine and pain
Two thousand years of misery
Of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount
Paranoia the law
My name is called religion
Sadistic, sacred, whore
I twist the truth
I rule the world
My crown is called deceit
I am the emperor of lies
You grovel at my feet
I rob you and I slaughter you
Your downfall is my gain
And still, you play the sycophant
And revel in your pain
And all my promises are lies
And all my love is hate
I am the politician
And I decide your fate
I march before a martyred world
An army for the fight
I speak of great heroic days
Of victory and might
I hold a banner drenched in blood
I urge you to be brave
I lead you to your destiny
I lead you to your grave
Your bones will build my palaces
Your eyes will stud my crown
For I am Mars the god of war
And I will cut you down
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Originally by Motorhead...
Haha the instrumental part is great but Max vocals is so different than Lemmy...
This song definitely has a lot of possibilities to it, but here's what I've come up with by thinking about it.
The Orgasmatron is basically the evil train seen on the cover of the album, obviously of an entity of the fantasy world. The first two sets of lyrics are about real life metaphorical Orgasmatrons that wreak havoc every day - Religion, and politics. The final lyric set is about the real train that's out to mess you up.
I don't know, that's all I could come up with.
It's not related to the train, have a look on wiki, the artwork was kept because it was good, but it is not relevant to the talk at hand.<br /> <br /> My view on this is that we're just shown an apocalyptic view of the epitome of human destruction.<br /> The first third is about religion, with its own brutality. <br /> The second part is about politics, with the deceit, control and power.<br /> And the third part is about war, fought for wrong leaders for example.<br /> <br /> These 3, religion, politics and war, are humanity's greatest murderers, and I suppose everybody can easily agree with this. You bring them together, and you've got mankind's destroyer.<br /> <br /> My two cents.<br />
It's not related to the train, have a look on wiki, the artwork was kept because it was good, but it is not relevant to the talk at hand.<br /> <br /> My view on this is that we're just shown an apocalyptic view of the epitome of human destruction.<br /> The first third is about religion, with its own brutality. <br /> The second part is about politics, with the deceit, control and power.<br /> And the third part is about war, fought for wrong leaders for example.<br /> <br /> These 3, religion, politics and war, are humanity's greatest murderers, and I suppose everybody can easily agree with this. You bring them together, and you've got mankind's destroyer.<br /> <br /> My two cents.<br />
You could have posted those lyrics a bit more...well, not so difficultly (if you get it?)
Lemmy's responses to the song's title and meaning:
"Yeah, the song is about all the things that people like to do instead of orgasms. People get political orgasms and religious orgasms and holy war orgasms. It's all shit."
punknews.org/article/47109/interviews-ian-lemmy-kilmister-motarhead
In another interview he expanded on that:
"It refers to the three things that I hate most in life, organized religion, politics, and war. Things like people that go to church and cum in their pants while communing with Jesus Christ. It's all a bunch of bullshit. If you are really into that, you don't need to go to a church to talk to God, you can talk to Him anywhere, you know? Or if you join a political party and get your jollies off of that, when your party wins and all that. It's the herd instinct. The same thing with the war. They give you a nice new uniform and march you off to die."
motorhead.ru/int37orgasmatron.htm
How the hell am I the second person to post for this song? This song kicks ass! Definately my one of my favorite Sepultura songs.
what a fucking awesome song i prefer this version to the motorhead version