Osama Bin Laden something something

Sometimes I just love stupid titles that have nothing to do with the song. Latterman was great for that, also Spraynard has some funny ones

cooljayhu wrote:

Sometimes I just love stupid titles that have nothing to do with the song. Latterman was great for that, also Spraynard has some funny ones

D4 are the kings of that.

This has to be their catchiest song in a while. I would be happy if they just sang nah-nah the whole way through and named it Stroll Shit.

P.S. -- You're gonna hang.

Tim wrote:

cooljayhu wrote:

Sometimes I just love stupid titles that have nothing to do with the song. Latterman was great for that, also Spraynard has some funny ones

D4 are the kings of that.

Yes I totally forgot about them good call.

The title of the song makes sense. The verses are about Osama and Jesus. Still the song is meh

Now that everyone's hatin', i'm starting to like this song.......

PUNK AS FUCK!

This is probably my favourite. It's always been the most catchy of the new ones.

Also, help me with the lyrics...

You're gonna hang like my needle from the SO? rafters
Hang like ? with the snow caved in.
Hang like a cross around my neck.
You're gonna hang, you're gonna hang.

What's the best thing you can hope for?
Pity thoughts and ? scraps/scrabs.
Some confusion, detachment.
A bullet in the head and a bullet in the chest.

What's the best thing you can hope for?
A blindfold and ? gag.
Burned-out eyes, grotesque beauty,
A nail through the feet and a nail through the hands/A nail through the hands and a nail through the feet.

I thought it was "with the skull caved in"

and i also thought it was Pity thoughts and table scraps.

I think it's "from the SO [Special Ops] rafters" but can't figure out the bit before. Magneto?

Or the bit after... Hang like ? with the skull caved in.

This thing has a fucking sick bassline

This song is fuckin' angry.

The more I listen to it, the more I'm liking it.

My guess at the lyrics:

Youre gonna hang like bonito from the SO rafters
Hang like a club with the skull caved in (?)
Hang like a cross around my neck
Youre gonna hang

Whats the best that you can hope for?
Pity fucks and table scraps
Subterfuge and detachment
A bullet in the head
And a bullet in the chest
Na na na na

Youre gonna hang like bonito from the SO rafters
Hang like a club with the skull caved in (?)
Hang like a cross around my neck
Youre gonna hang

Whats the best that you can hope for?
A blindfold and a ball gag
Burned out as you test beauty (?)
A nail through the feet and a nail through the hands
Na na na na...[i]

I think it is probably "Esso" rafters. Esso is the name for Exxon/Mobile internationally

freerayliotta wrote:

I think it is probably "Esso" rafters. Esso is the name for Exxon/Mobile internationally

Yes. The lyric is "Hang like Benito [as in Mussolini] from the Esso rafters". Benito Mussolini was hanged from the rafters at an Esso station.

Ah, rad! Dunno why you never posted that before, though.

We're one lyric away from decyphering it.

Aaron wrote:

Ah, rad! Dunno why you never posted that before, though.

We're one lyric away from decyphering it.

This is just a guess, but it might be 'Hang like Glover with the skull caved in'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Glover

His signature was killing women by crushing their skulls and he hanged himself in prison. Maybe that's the lyric.

I really really like this song. I like the lyrics and title, my take is it's about how reveling in the murders of these figures turns into fetishizing/martyrizing them, which is a phenomenon that has always made me kind of nauseous whether it's Jesus or Bin Laden.

Also, I love the part Laura did in some of the Revival Tour performances where the "na na na"s would devolve into her spitting out these weird unintelligible noises. Like in this one

This might me my favorite of all the songs off TGDB

This song is amazing acoustic. Hopefully they release it as a B-Side like Black Crosses.

I do like the intro

Hang like Benito from the Esso rafters. Hang like Clara with the skull caved in.

You're going to hang like Benito from the Esso rafters.
Hang like Clara with her skull caved in.
Hang like a cross around my neck.
You're going to hang.

You're going to hang like Benito from the Esso rafters.
Hang like Clara with her skull caved in.
Hang like a cross around my neck.
You're going to hang.

What's the best that you can hope for?
Pity fucks and table scraps?
Subterfuge and detachment.
A bullet in the head and a bullet in the chest.

You're going to hang like Benito from the Esso rafters.
Hang like Clara with her skull caved in.
Hang like a cross around my neck.
You're going to hang.

You're going to hang like Benito from the Esso rafters.
Hang like Clara with her skull caved in.
Hang like a cross around my neck.
You're going to hang.

What's the best that you can hope for?

This song references the deaths of Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci. Mussolini was the Italian Prime Minister until he was ousted in 1943. He is known as one of the key figures who created fascism. During his life, there were many attempts on his life however it wasn't until 1945 when he and his entourage were shot by a communist partisan commander (Walter Audisio).

The bodies of Benito and his mistress Clara were loaded onto a moving van and were taken to the village of Piazzale Loreto. The bodies were kicked, spat upon and shot at before being strung up with meat hooks from the roof of an Esso garage. The bodies were then stoned by civilians as a warning to all fascists. His body was buried in an unmarked grave but was then dug up by neo-fascists who had it for a while. But now his body rests at his place of birth.