Auf Achse (song)

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.

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 and hang 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".