Kill the DJ
Kill the DJ (Radio Edit)
Song Meaning
The message for this song in the ¡Uno! deluxe lyric book is: "Ah yes, which leads us to this 4 on the floor. Sometimes I could drink my way through this era. Take pills & fuck the noise away. And dance in the ashes of nonsense."
Billie Joe in Guitar World, 2012: "I hope some [DJs] take that track and remix it! I think the line 'kill the DJ' is more a take on all these opinions you get when you watch TV these days - anything from Bill Maher to Bill O'Reilly: culture wars and all that; the static noise that keeps coming at you. And there's that moment when you just say, 'Shut the fuck up!' That's also my take on it: 'Just give me fuckin' peace.' Also, the song has the vibe of a party that's gone gross - the feeling that everyone's in the bathroom at the same time doing cocaine together."
In addition to the themes that Billie Joe describes, the lines about "beer goggles" and a "pocket full of pills" are meant to paint a picture of a party that has gone too far, and the narrator questions whether he is comfortable with that or not.
Billie Joe in Guitar World, 2012: "I hope some [DJs] take that track and remix it! I think the line 'kill the DJ' is more a take on all these opinions you get when you watch TV these days - anything from Bill Maher to Bill O'Reilly: culture wars and all that; the static noise that keeps coming at you. And there's that moment when you just say, 'Shut the fuck up!' That's also my take on it: 'Just give me fuckin' peace.' Also, the song has the vibe of a party that's gone gross - the feeling that everyone's in the bathroom at the same time doing cocaine together."
In addition to the themes that Billie Joe describes, the lines about "beer goggles" and a "pocket full of pills" are meant to paint a picture of a party that has gone too far, and the narrator questions whether he is comfortable with that or not.
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Lyrics
Walking after dark
In the New York City park
Your thoughts are so unholy
In the holiest of holes
Onward Christian soldier
Filled with jive and mind control
The blood left on the dance floor
Running running red
The bullet that you asked for
Killing you to death
Unless you
Someone kill the DJ
Shoot the fucking DJ
The voices in my head are saying
Shoot that fucker down
We are the vultures
The dirtiest kind
The culture war's
In your heart and your mind
Walking after dark
In the New York City park
Beer goggles left in the club
A pocket full of pills
Sodom and Gommorah
In the century of thrills
The blood left on the dance floor
Running running red
The bullet that you asked for
Killing you to death
Unless you
Someone kill the DJ
Shoot the fucking DJ
Hold him under water
'til the mother fucker drowns
We are the vultures
The dirtiest kind
The culture war's
In your heart and your mind
Someone's gonna get you, boy
Shoot that fucker down
Someone kill the DJ
Shoot the fucking DJ
(Walking after dark)
Shoot that fucker down
Someone kill the DJ
Shoot the fucking DJ
Voices in my head are saying
Shoot that fucker down
In the New York City park
Your thoughts are so unholy
In the holiest of holes
Onward Christian soldier
Filled with jive and mind control
The blood left on the dance floor
Running running red
The bullet that you asked for
Killing you to death
Unless you
Someone kill the DJ
Shoot the fucking DJ
The voices in my head are saying
Shoot that fucker down
We are the vultures
The dirtiest kind
The culture war's
In your heart and your mind
Walking after dark
In the New York City park
Beer goggles left in the club
A pocket full of pills
Sodom and Gommorah
In the century of thrills
The blood left on the dance floor
Running running red
The bullet that you asked for
Killing you to death
Unless you
Someone kill the DJ
Shoot the fucking DJ
Hold him under water
'til the mother fucker drowns
We are the vultures
The dirtiest kind
The culture war's
In your heart and your mind
Someone's gonna get you, boy
Shoot that fucker down
Someone kill the DJ
Shoot the fucking DJ
(Walking after dark)
Shoot that fucker down
Someone kill the DJ
Shoot the fucking DJ
Voices in my head are saying
Shoot that fucker down
Live History
Live History
- Total Plays
- 4 times / #225 most played
- Most Recent
- September 15, 2012 New York, NY
- Earliest Known
- August 6, 2012 Los Angeles, CA
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