Matt Shadows their lead singer says the song was written as per request from the developers of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Watching the initial trailers for the game & looking at production sketches reminded him of the 'S-Town' podcast & its main protagonist, John B. McLemore. Matt also comments specifically on the lyrics: "I decided that the lyrics would shadow McLemore's life." In 2012, antiquarian horologist John B. McLemore sent an email to the staff of the show 'This American Life' asking them to investigate an alleged murder in his hometown of Woodstock, Alabama, a place McLemore claimed to despise. After a year of exchanging emails & several months of conversation with McLemore, producer Brian Reed traveled to Woodstock to investigate. Reed investigated the crime & eventually found that no such murder took place, though he struck up a friendship with the depressed but colorful character of McLemore. He recorded conversations with McLemore & other people in Woodstock. McLemore killed himself by drinking potassium cyanide on June 22, 2015 while the podcast was still in production. In the narrative of the podcast, this occurs at the end of the second episode; subsequent episodes deal with the fallout from McLemore's death while exploring more of McLemore's life & character.
Freeway fell into the bay
Popes on L.S.D.
Muslim girls are getting down
In bikinis
Nazis selling tupperware
Door to door
Telepreachers mud-wrestling
On the dance floor
I read it in the paper
I see it on my TV
Has the whole world lost it's head
(Is it just me)
Has the whole world lost it's head
(Is it just me)
Has the whole world lost it's head
You can buy tomatoes
That last 500 years
Claudia Schiffer's fianc¨¦
Made her disappear
Drag queens have the navy
Tossing in their beds
Mary ate her little lamb
And punk rock isn't dead
I read it in the paper
I see it on my TV
Has the whole world lost it's head
(Is it just me)
Has the whole world lost it's head
(Is it just me)
Has the whole world lost it's head
I read it in the paper
I see it on my TV
Has the whole world lost it's head
(Is it just me)
Has the whole world lost it's head
(Is it just me)
Has the whole world lost it's head
(Is it just me)
Has the whole world lost it's head
Lost it's head
Lost it's head
Lost it's head
Popes on L.S.D.
Muslim girls are getting down
In bikinis
Nazis selling tupperware
Door to door
Telepreachers mud-wrestling
On the dance floor
I read it in the paper
I see it on my TV
Has the whole world lost it's head
(Is it just me)
Has the whole world lost it's head
(Is it just me)
Has the whole world lost it's head
You can buy tomatoes
That last 500 years
Claudia Schiffer's fianc¨¦
Made her disappear
Drag queens have the navy
Tossing in their beds
Mary ate her little lamb
And punk rock isn't dead
I read it in the paper
I see it on my TV
Has the whole world lost it's head
(Is it just me)
Has the whole world lost it's head
(Is it just me)
Has the whole world lost it's head
I read it in the paper
I see it on my TV
Has the whole world lost it's head
(Is it just me)
Has the whole world lost it's head
(Is it just me)
Has the whole world lost it's head
(Is it just me)
Has the whole world lost it's head
Lost it's head
Lost it's head
Lost it's head
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