Ted, Just Admit It... Lyrics
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody....
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah....
There are gonna be people being shot in Salt Lake City
Because the police there aren't willing to accept, what I think they know
And they know I didn't do these things...
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...
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...
Sex is violent...
Sex is violent...
Sex is violent...
Go!
The T.V.'s got them all
It's not shocking!
Every half an hour
Someone's captured and
The cop moves them along...
Well, it's just like the show before
Now 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!
Go!
You look like a meatball
I'll throw away your toothpick
And ask for your giveness
Because of this thing!
Because of this thing!
Is it not in you?
Is it not your problem?
A baby to a mother...
Oh!
To your scapegoat
That's what I say
He tells you everyone is stupid
That's what he thinks!
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!
Sex is violent!
Sex is violent!
Sex is violent!
Sex is violent!
Sex is violent!
Sex is violent!
Violent!
Violent!
Violent!
Violent!
Violent!
Violent!

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.
Actually, he was not executed. He was killed in prison by another inmate.
Actually, he was not executed. He was killed in prison by another inmate.
You're thinking of Jeffrey Dahmer. Bundy rode the lightning in Jan. 1989.
You're thinking of Jeffrey Dahmer. Bundy rode the lightning in Jan. 1989.

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

it's about ted bundy

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.
@DarkKuja 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...
@DarkKuja 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.

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

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

title incorrect, same song as Ted just admit it,

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

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

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
@sabre11 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
@sabre11 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