The real meaning of the song is in the album's manual but I discovered that the song is a metaphor for a popular incident in my country South Africa that's not mainstream.
In my opinion the song chronicles the murders of infamous South African serial killer/rapist "Moses Sithole" (A.K.A "The ABC Killer") because his murder's began in Atteridgeville, continued in Boksburg and finished in Cleveland, a suburb of Johannesburg.
From 1994-1995 Sithole went on a murder spree killing at least 38 people and robbing 3 stores but was eventually arrested in 1995. In 1997 he was sentenced to life imprisonment and was locked up at C Max one of the worst maximum security prisons in South Africa where people are practically isolated in padded cells. At C Max you can't leave your cell and are given food through a a small door. After a million years and you're allowed to leave you're practically a human vegetable who thinks that the doors just fooling you to get food again.
Sithole was a mild-mannered man but an extremely vile and vicious man at heart. He even had a charity against child abuse (as he was an orphan when his father died when he was 5 and his mother abandoned him in the ghetto). However, all of his victims were females interviewing for positions with Sithole's charity. He would take them to remote fields, and proceed to beat, rape, and murder them. They were generally strangled with their own underwear. He would then write the word "bitch" on their dead bodies before dumping them. He even phoned his victims families and taunted them and by the time he was discovered, he killed at least 30 people and the whole country panicked (including president Mandela)
Lyrics:
The "Go Away" line represents the victim's trying to escape Sithole.
The "Molested children" are his victims and when the singer.
The "Ever So Popular beating" is a reference to Sithole beating his victims and the "Skin" part represents when he wrote the world "B-tch" on their skin.
"Blame, Hate, For Fate's Seed" represents how Sithole is practically giving in to his tragic childhood by committing wrong-doing and repeating hate's cycle.
The "Free Thinkers" are the people he is after and he has complete hatred for them.
"Gonna let you motherfuckers die" is a direct reference to Sithole's lack of emotion and sympathy towards his victim's.
"Lives rearranged" is a reference to how he affected the lives of his victim's families.
"Lives in my range" is a reference to Sithole's killing record of 38 people. He's basically saying "I've killed lots of lives and I'm on a roll with it"
"Why, why, why, why" Well. That's what all the people in court are wandering how could such a horrible killing spree happen.
Oh, and the title "Mind is a reference to how messed up he was or how he horribly corrupted all the minds of the people he raped. The music also matches the intensity and how frightening the situation involving Sithole was.
I'm a South African and this is my "South African" Interpretation of the song. System Of A Down is an awesome band and thank god Sithole is locked up.
The real meaning of the song is in the album's manual but I discovered that the song is a metaphor for a popular incident in my country South Africa that's not mainstream.
In my opinion the song chronicles the murders of infamous South African serial killer/rapist "Moses Sithole" (A.K.A "The ABC Killer") because his murder's began in Atteridgeville, continued in Boksburg and finished in Cleveland, a suburb of Johannesburg.
From 1994-1995 Sithole went on a murder spree killing at least 38 people and robbing 3 stores but was eventually arrested in 1995. In 1997 he was sentenced to life imprisonment and was locked up at C Max one of the worst maximum security prisons in South Africa where people are practically isolated in padded cells. At C Max you can't leave your cell and are given food through a a small door. After a million years and you're allowed to leave you're practically a human vegetable who thinks that the doors just fooling you to get food again.
Sithole was a mild-mannered man but an extremely vile and vicious man at heart. He even had a charity against child abuse (as he was an orphan when his father died when he was 5 and his mother abandoned him in the ghetto). However, all of his victims were females interviewing for positions with Sithole's charity. He would take them to remote fields, and proceed to beat, rape, and murder them. They were generally strangled with their own underwear. He would then write the word "bitch" on their dead bodies before dumping them. He even phoned his victims families and taunted them and by the time he was discovered, he killed at least 30 people and the whole country panicked (including president Mandela)
Lyrics:
The "Go Away" line represents the victim's trying to escape Sithole.
The "Molested children" are his victims and when the singer.
The "Ever So Popular beating" is a reference to Sithole beating his victims and the "Skin" part represents when he wrote the world "B-tch" on their skin.
"Blame, Hate, For Fate's Seed" represents how Sithole is practically giving in to his tragic childhood by committing wrong-doing and repeating hate's cycle.
The "Free Thinkers" are the people he is after and he has complete hatred for them.
"Gonna let you motherfuckers die" is a direct reference to Sithole's lack of emotion and sympathy towards his victim's.
"Lives rearranged" is a reference to how he affected the lives of his victim's families.
"Lives in my range" is a reference to Sithole's killing record of 38 people. He's basically saying "I've killed lots of lives and I'm on a roll with it"
"Why, why, why, why" Well. That's what all the people in court are wandering how could such a horrible killing spree happen.
Oh, and the title "Mind is a reference to how messed up he was or how he horribly corrupted all the minds of the people he raped. The music also matches the intensity and how frightening the situation involving Sithole was.
I'm a South African and this is my "South African" Interpretation of the song. System Of A Down is an awesome band and thank god Sithole is locked up.