Stray Bullet

I think what attracted the shooters to this song was the meaning that I always got from it. It's a song about being a lone wolf, a mechanism for change in the world. A heroic individual if you will, in the Romantic sense. An individual who is at odds with the society around him, and his greatest struggle is to transcend those boundaries which are made by the moral code. Once these are transcended, the hero also transcends himself and thus is in a way divine. Change throughout history has not come through the consensus of the crowd, but from timeless individuals who sacrifice their personal comfort for a higher calling. Do not confuse higher calling with some dogmatized Christian concept. It doesn't have to be religious at all, but such a thing is very spiritual.

This song is about Christian bastards that commit violent crimes and stuff in the name of God.

Finally a song about why some religious zealots are hated by people.

The best part of this song, maybe one of the greatest KMFDM moments ever, is that sample in the middle of the song:

"Even if God REALLY existed, it would be necessary to ABOLISH HIM!!!"

Where on earth did they get that? It's so damn cool

My favourite KMFDM song...STRAY BULLET.

Re: God, it's a (paraphrased) quote by Mikhail Bakunin, a Russian anarchist and atheist. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin

I think it not only speaks out against organized religion, but I think that the song has more than one meaning.

For example, I think the song could be sung from the perspective of a stray bullet; whereas the meaning of the song would then be that one single stray bullet could change the entire scope of the world, which it can.

Auvinen, who opened fire at Jokela High School used this song in the video he made just hours before he carried out the killing spree.

^ yeah that coward tainted this song. how annoying.

The song was already tainted by the Columbine High School shooters