Camera got them images
Camera got them all
Nothing's shocking
Showed me everybody
Naked and disfigured
Nothing's shocking
And then he came
Now sister's
Not a virgin anymore
Her sex is violent

The T.V.'s got them images
T.V.'s got them all
It's not shocking!
Every half an hour
Someone's captured and
The cop moves them along
It's just like the show before
The news is
Just another show
With sex and violence

Sex is violent
Sex is violent
Sex is violent
Sex is violent
Sex is violent
Sex is violent
Sex is violent!

I am the killer of people
You look like a meatball
I'll throw away your toothpick
And ask for your giveness

Because of this thing!
Because of this thing!
Because of this thing!

That's in me
Is it not in you?
Is it not your problem?

A baby to a mother
You talk too much
To your scapegoat

That's what I say
He tells you everyone is stupid
That's what he thinks!

Snapshots
Make a girl look cheap
Like a tongue extended
A baby's to a mother

Sex is violent!
Sex is violent!
Sex is violent!
Sex is violent!

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It's about the way that we are de-sensatized to everything, and that news footage of people being shot and blown up is no more real to us than watching Friday the 13th. Hvusnme is right, the quote at the start is from an interview with Ted Bundy, and Jane's addiction have used this, because at his trial, he claimed that watching pornography and violent images on TV had warped his mind and caused him to comit his crimes (it didn't work, he was executed for 28 murder convictions, lol), but this basically ties in with the theme of the song.

It's about the way that we are de-sensatized to everything, and that news footage of people being shot and blown up is no more real to us than watching Friday the 13th. Hvusnme is right, the quote at the start is from an interview with Ted Bundy, and Jane's addiction have used this, because at his trial, he claimed that watching pornography and violent images on TV had warped his mind and caused him to comit his crimes (it didn't work, he was executed for 28 murder convictions, lol), but this basically ties in with the theme of the song.

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quiffpornon April 19, 2004 Link
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Actually, he was not executed. He was killed in prison by another inmate.

red_alibion May 20, 2009

You're thinking of Jeffrey Dahmer. Bundy rode the lightning in Jan. 1989.

Bulgaroktonoson August 01, 2009
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I think i get a general picture of this song, but i wanted to know if someone could elaborate. Great song

I think i get a general picture of this song, but i wanted to know if someone could elaborate. Great song

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it's about ted bundy

it's about ted bundy

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I think Perry once said he wrote this song after watching a video about serial killers while taking acid, and that actual words aren't so much about Bundy, more like the divide between good and bad - sex and violence.

I think Perry once said he wrote this song after watching a video about serial killers while taking acid, and that actual words aren't so much about Bundy, more like the divide between good and bad - sex and violence.

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Also the overlap, some people love to watch sexy stuff that goes to various degrees, pretty women, pretty women dressed sexy, women as cheerleaders, dancers, models, lingerie models, nude models, then strippers, then porn, but then what degree of porn, seeing women as dominatrix or being raped, murdered?
some want to watch violent movies, car crashes, fighting, torture,murder, some one to watch real violent events Kennedy's assassination, planes hitting the world trade center on 911, boxing, Youtube videos of someone getting a beatdown, snuff films
Most want to act out in some way, they satisfy their desires sexually with a consenting partner and do not have to resort to terrible violent acts...Perhaps some of us feel the need to do something violent,...rape, murder, torture but do not act out because of morals or at least staying in social constructs of what is proper behavior. The"Its in me, is not in you" strikes me as someone caught trying to justify it and lays blame on his scapegoats.

superfreak30328on December 20, 2014
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this is jane's stairway to heaven............great stuff

this is jane's stairway to heaven............great stuff

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lol i wonder if ted bundy ever heard this song before he was executed in 1989?

lol i wonder if ted bundy ever heard this song before he was executed in 1989?

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title incorrect, same song as Ted just admit it,

title incorrect, same song as Ted just admit it,

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if you want to know exactly what this song is about read the 'only living witness' it's one of the most foremost accounts of what Bundy did. The thing in this song that creeps me the fuck out is the multiple refrences to cameras/snapshots. I don't know if JA knew it at the time of writing this song, but Bundy, about a week before he was killed, confessed to taking polaroids of some, or all of his victims. the pictures have yet to be found

if you want to know exactly what this song is about read the 'only living witness' it's one of the most foremost accounts of what Bundy did. The thing in this song that creeps me the fuck out is the multiple refrences to cameras/snapshots. I don't know if JA knew it at the time of writing this song, but Bundy, about a week before he was killed, confessed to taking polaroids of some, or all of his victims. the pictures have yet to be found

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Its about on the surface of course ted bundy but its about become so jaded that nothing is a big deal anymore and all you want to do is fuck and kill

Its about on the surface of course ted bundy but its about become so jaded that nothing is a big deal anymore and all you want to do is fuck and kill

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i dont understand the lines, I am the killer of people You look like a meatball I'll throw away your toothpick And ask for your giveness can someone please elaborate

i dont understand the lines, I am the killer of people You look like a meatball I'll throw away your toothpick And ask for your giveness can someone please elaborate

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Same here, I image its from the point of view of the rapist/serial murderer, hors d'oeuvres are sometimes meatballs with toothpicks you eat the meatballs and discard the tootpicks
So the victim's souls are the meatballs and the tootpicks are the bodies which only remain after he is done with them? He looks at his victims just as a guest looks at hors d'oeuvres at a party and takes them at his whim?
your giveness, have no idea, makes a lot of sense if it is forgiveness

superfreak30328on December 20, 2014

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