Professional Killer

I love their lyrics! but i didn't really like the voice until i got used to it, it's the same issue with a lot of their songs.

Lucia does some amazing vocals on this song, and the song itself is fucking amazing.

This song is about the military people following politicians.

And lets not talk about how good the songs are we obviously think it's a good song if we're going to discuss the meaning of the lyrics. Professional Killer's about an executioner.

The song uses a sample from an execution playing in the background but that doesn't make it the theme.

The song is about exactly what the titles says a professional killer/hitman. This person studies their targets probably in a stalker-like manor.

Jenovasson and Cool Coz are both right. That's the point of the song: that it seems like it's talking about an executioner AND it seems like it's talking about a hitman. This song is denouncing the practice of capital punishment by casting the executioner in a comparable light to a hitman, thus showing the incredibly thin, grey line we walk when we appoint somebody to pull the plug on another person because we don't like them or what they've done. The fact that the subject of the song (a hitman or an executioner) is indistinct is supposed to be a reflection on the indistinct nature of supposed distinctions between the two. To better illustrate the point, allow me to offer this: The MacManus brothers from Boondock Saints -- are they executioners or hitmen?

I'm not so sure about the military following politicians. I mean, that's certainly a message that one could see KMFDM attempting to portray in a song, I just don't see where it comes into this. Actually, I don't see any reference to politicians specifically at all here.

I know it's about a killer but to me i relate to it in how I pursue and create art. "Conquer your world Study you quietly Count the ways I'll do anything you say There will be no holding back"

This is sorta how I look at other artists I respect. Studying them quietly from a far with a lot of both hate and respect. I hate that they can make the shit they do, and it does feel like I'm an animal trying to attack them by studying them and trying to be better. Like fuck you, I'm going to be better than you in 6 months. Of course it always took longer to learn shit when I was younger but now I feel like I'm a hyena on the prowl and with the health risks doing art poses it is starting to feel like a risky thing...even though I'm still young.