Loughner included this on a video. I’m curious what was on his iPod, which he apparently listened to everywhere.
Just ponder for a moment how this music could possibly contribute to positive outcomes. It may be useful for soldiers getting ready to engage in combat, but even there I tend to think it would foster an excessive desire to kill.
I included the lyrics in full just to show the obsessiveness of them, the lack of creativity, the mechanistic quality.
More than a thousand years ago–it’s like closer to 2,000 or more–the author of the Wen Tzu pointed out that a culture can best be understood through its music. You look at the words, the topics chosen, and the method of delivery.
Ponder what this song says about us, or at least about those many of us who listen to this song and the many others like it. If you are not familiar with the actual sound of it, find it somewhere and listen to it. I’m sure there’s a YouTube video.
“Bodies”
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floooooor
Beaten why for (why for)
Can’t take much more
Here we go!
Here we go!
Here we go!
One – Nothing wrong with me
Two – Nothing wrong with me
Three – Nothing wrong with me
Four – Nothing wrong with me
One – Something’s got to give
Two – Something’s got to give
Three – Something’s got to give
Now
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the flooooor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the flooooor
Now!
Push me again
This is the end
Here we go!
Here we go!
Here we go!
One – Nothing wrong with me
Two – Nothing wrong with me
Three – Nothing wrong with me
Four – Nothing wrong with me
One – Something’s got to give
Two – Something’s got to give
Three – Something’s got to give
Now
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the flooooor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Skin against skin blood and bone
You’re all by yourself but you’re not alone
You wanted in now you’re here
Driven by hate
consumed by fear
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floooooooor
One – Nothing wrong with me
Two – Nothing wrong with me
Three – Nothing wrong with me
Four – Nothing wrong with me
One – Something’s got to give
Two – Something’s got to give
Three – Something’s got to give
Now
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the flooooor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor