Auf Achse (song)
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| Song by Franz Ferdinand | |||||
| Album | Franz Ferdinand | ||||
| Released | 2004 | ||||
| Recorded | 2003 - 2004 | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 4:20 | ||||
| Label | Domino | ||||
| Producer | Franz Ferdinand Tore Johansson |
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Auf Achse is a song about unrequited love by the band Franz Ferdinand, from the album Franz Ferdinand. "Auf Achse" literally means "on the axle" in German, a common metaphor for "on the road" and also the title of a 1980s TV series about truckers. It has also been stated that 'Auf Achse' was the first song written by Kapranos and McCarthy.
The song is very obviously based on and contains parts of Gordon's Gin by The Human League, as found on their Travelogue (Human League album).
The last lines reference Jesus's crucifixion:
- And now I'm nailed above you, gushing from my side
- It's with your sins that you have killed me
- Thinking of your sins I die
- Thinking how you'd let them touch you
- How you'd never realise
- That I'm ripped in half, forsaken
- Knowing never will I rise
This song is about a lonely trucker, or so Alex Kapranos often states when he introduces the song live. The song's title can be misspelt, "Auf Asche" which literally means "on ashes".
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