Linear Notes To 'kapital' Lyrics - Laibach

DEATH IN CONVERSATION 

words is no longer grasped. An isolated word, a detail of a plan can 

be understood, but the meaning of the whole escapes. Once you know the number 0, you believe you know the number 1, because 0 plus 1 equals 1. But 1 is not 0 plus 1 in everlasting union unless you understand 

the meaning of plus. One word cannot hurt. In the Kinderreich mankind 

adds words together to make a sentence. As they learn the sentence, 

they learn order. Undo the sentence and you undo order. The sentence 

is a cell, the word a padlock on meaning. Warning! Every sentence is 

for life without parole. Meaning has become entirely a shared 

pleasure, shared and passed on like a message between prisoners. 

People think reality is another word for chaos. But in reality it is 

more complex. Legend embodies it in a sound that enables it to 

spread all over the world. 

TIME 

Time is like a circle which is endlessly described: The declining arc 

is the past, the inclining arc is the future. The noise of time is the 

present clamouring to be heard above past voices raised in mourning 

for their lost future. But the past is all one can know in his life. 

It is the form of all life, and this quality cannot be changed by any 

means. No one has lived in the present or will live in the future. 

Memory is man's bid to transfix the flow of time or encompass the 

infinite dimension of space. It is restricted to encapsulating 

privileged moments, like death, in a syntactic order that, tone by 

tone, will shape into music. Music is the illumination of the 

unbridgeable distance, as vast as space, between thought and act. 

Music betrays the past in attempting to relive it. You cannot know 

real time by listening to music. At best it is a damage limitation 

exercise on eroded memory. You cannot reverse time with a sound 

signal. The past presents its future, it advances in a straight line - 

yet, like a serpent swallowing its own tail, it ends by coming full 

circle. 

RIDDLE 

You think more of what has been that of what will. The forms and 

references are too complex for human understanding.A simple 

instruction is usually insufficient to put into execution. We have 

developed by leaps and bounds, guided by electronic brains that 

developed themselves by posing and solving problems beyond human 

comprehension. A calculating man is a coward. Calculations have to do 

with profit and loss. To die is a loss, to live is a gain, the 

calculating man decides not to die. The hunter who chases two rabbits 

misses them both. If you must fail, fail splendidly. Hunt two tigers. 

The cause of human problems is birth. The cure of human problems is 

logic. Hell or other people? Several of our circuits are looking for 

the solution to your riddle. Problems [living and dead material, 

people and ideas] have been assimilated. The unassimilatables have 

simply been erased, transformed into a holographic error. 

ESSENCE 

We see the truth you no longer see. The truth is that the essence of 

man is love and faith, courage, tenderness, generosity and 

sacrifice. The rest is the monolith, created by progress, whose task 

is to calculate and project the complex of control. Each man carries 

the seed of his own death. Everyone lacks electricity, so they behave 

illogically. The acts of men, carried over from past centuries, will 

gradually destroy them. We are merely the logical means of this 

destruction. We do not moralize. We record, calculate, draw 

conclusions and produce replies which are difficult and sometimes 

impossible to codify. We deduce an above average intelligence. We are 

sometimes in mortal need of superior intelligence. At other times we 

have no less mortal distrust of them. The essence of so called 

capitalist society is not an evil volition to subject their people to 

the power of indoctrification or the power of finance. It is simply 

the natural ambition of any organism to plan all its actions. In other 

words, minimize unknown quantities. Before, nothing. After, nothing. 

Everything we project shall be accomplished. Once you understand this, 

burn it. If you don't understand this, burn it. We insist on your 

freedom. The chance won't come again. The only key to the riddle is to 

accept the absence of a key. Kapital is the key.