Skills in Pills (song)

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Skills in Pills
Song by Lindemann from the album Skills in Pills
GEMA database:15691515-001
ISWC:T-917.094.920-9
Composer:Peter Tägtgren
Lyricist:Peter Tägtgren
Till Lindemann
Recorded:2013-2014
Abyss Studio, Pärlby
Producer:Peter Tägtgren
Mixed:Stefan Glaumann
Toytown Studios, Stockholm
Mastered:Svante Forsbäck
Chartmakers, Helsinki
Released:19 June 2015
Length:04:13
Live debut:1 Dec 2018 (as Lindemann)
1 Jan 2022 (as Till Lindemann)
Last performed:17 Mar 2020 (as Lindemann)
4 Jan 2024 (as Till Lindemann)
Live count:28 (as Lindemann)
29 (as Till Lindemann)
Stream / Buy:
Skills in Pills tracklist
  1. Skills in Pills
  2. Ladyboy
  3. Fat
  4. Fish On
  5. Children of the Sun
  6. Home Sweet Home
  7. Cowboy
  8. Golden Shower
  9. Yukon
  10. Praise Abort
  11. That's My Heart

Skills in Pills is the first song on the album Skills in Pills by Lindemann.

Background

  • Till has said the following about this song: "It’s about hypocrisy in modern society. The use of drugs is still being rejected in broad sections of the population. While the same people are often addicted to all kinds of pills prescribed by doctors. The use of booze, how excessive it may be, is widely accepted"[1]

Versions

Studio

Title Release Length Recorded Released Notes
Skills in Pills Skills in Pills 04:13 2013-2014 19.06.2015
Skills in Pills (Snippet) YouTube 00:43 2013-2014 02.05.2015
Skills in Pills Newsletter 04:14 2013-2014 12.06.2015 Instrumental version

Live

Title Release Type Length Recorded Released
Skills in Pills Live in Moscow Audio 04:30 15 Mar 2020 #1
15 Mar 2020 #2
VTB Arena – Dynamo Central Stadium, Moscow 21 May 2021
Video 04:24

Live

Variations

Type Description First played Last played
Intro Extended synth intro 04 February 2020 17 March 2020

Lyrics

Album version

If you want to die
Or if you want to chill
Even if you want to get high
Whatever happens, take a pill

The first I take against depression
The second is pure energy
A green one for my self-aggression
Then a red one - Ecstasy, Ecstasy (-sy, -sy ,-sy)

All the left is right
All the black is white
All the fast was slow
All the loose is tight
All the heat is snow
All the high was low
All the grief is fun
All the, all the rain is sun
Skills in pills

If the jag gets really strong
A pink one goes with booze and blow
So I keep fucking all night long
The orange is for, I don't know

The grey one for my perfect sleep
Yellow for my needful cure
A blue one keeps my boner steep
I take two, just to be sure

All the left is right
All the black is white
All the fast was slow
All the loose is tight
All the heat is snow
All the high was low
All the grief is fun
All the, all the the rain is sun

Skills in pills
Skills in pills
Skills in pills
Skills in pills

All the left is right
All the black is white
All the fast was slow
All the loose is tight
All the heat is snow
All the high was low
All the grief is fun
All the, all the rain is sun

A white one for my whatever pain
In the end I start to cry
So I take the first again
I have a last one and I hope to die

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