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.
"Count the ways
I'll do anything you say
There will be no holding back
Legions of me"
"Count the ways
I'll do anything you say
There will be no holding back
Legions of me"
"A promise written in blood
Take life for pay"
"A promise written in blood
Take life for pay"
This song is all about the military blindly obeying politicians and getting off on it. They draw a parallel with the executioner to emphasize the point that there is no difference in executing a man with a lethal injection and killing an Iraqi just because some guy in a suit tells you to. That is why the execution sounds like a military operation.
This song is all about the military blindly obeying politicians and getting off on it. They draw a parallel with the executioner to emphasize the point that there is no difference in executing a man with a lethal injection and killing an Iraqi just because some guy in a suit tells you to. That is why the execution sounds like a military operation.
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.
"Count the ways I'll do anything you say There will be no holding back Legions of me"
"Count the ways I'll do anything you say There will be no holding back Legions of me"
"A promise written in blood Take life for pay"
"A promise written in blood Take life for pay"
This song is all about the military blindly obeying politicians and getting off on it. They draw a parallel with the executioner to emphasize the point that there is no difference in executing a man with a lethal injection and killing an Iraqi just because some guy in a suit tells you to. That is why the execution sounds like a military operation.
This song is all about the military blindly obeying politicians and getting off on it. They draw a parallel with the executioner to emphasize the point that there is no difference in executing a man with a lethal injection and killing an Iraqi just because some guy in a suit tells you to. That is why the execution sounds like a military operation.
Blind obediance.
Blind obediance.