Lyrics for Support Our Troops OH! (Black Angels OH!... as interpreted by PLANES

Support Our Troops OH! (Black Angels OH!... Lyrics
Did you know you were going to shoot
off the top of a four year old girl's head
And look across her car-seat down into her skull
And see into her throat and did you know
that her dad would say to you,
"Please sir, can I take her body home?"
Oh wait, you totally did know... that that would happen
Cuz you're a jock who was too stupid and too greedy
And too unmotivated to do anything else but still be
The biggest and still do what other people tell you to do
You did it to still be a winner
You shot your grenade launcher into peoples windows and
Into the doors of peoples houses why should I care if
you get killed?

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tuff_luff
06-18-2004

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This is also a very self-explanitory song. It's also pretty cool.

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explosion
06-28-2004

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to me, jamie begins to address (in a way) his view of the war. about halfway through the song, he seems to get more personal, as if he is targeting this song to one specific person. perhaps he knew a boy in high school who only did things for recognition, and now, in jamies eyes, he enlisted for the same reason. a few magazines have said that the line "Cuz you're a jock who was too stupid and too greedy And too unmotivated to do anything else but still be The biggest" is childish, but i feel that it just shows us that jamie is using the war issue to let his feelings out about people who will do things, even if they arent enthusiastic about them, just to get their name known.

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high fidelity
09-24-2004

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this has to be the most anti war song ever.

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Tristax!
09-26-2004

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I think Jamie is just using this topic of the war and the unquestionable infallibility of the troops to get even further under our skin. The War is irrelevant -- Jamie just wants to fuck with us.

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Mister Jack
12-17-2004

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This song (actually words spoken to discordant electronic music) hit me hard. It's probably the most powerful spoken piece I've heard since Patti Smith's early seventies Piss Factory. But its message is far more bleak. Oh shit, I think, this is really how it is. Giving lip service to "our troops" while rejecting Bush and the war doesn't cut it. Jamie Stewart's done what the Weather Underground wanted to do in the sixties. He's brought the war home.

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RoboLuncheon
12-19-2004

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I have to say that a high school style rant about jocks is really out of place in a serious antiwar song. It's as though he considers being a jock to be a tragedy on par with the grisly death of the four year old he describes. Whatever magazine you read that called it a childish thing to say: i agree.

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Drealoth
12-28-2004

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It's not about jocks, it's about a jock. The song is meant to be personal.

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Tristax!
01-07-2005

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It is childish, but so is the victim described in the story. Perhaps he's echoing the child's voice for added emotional cacophony.

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Grobus
01-11-2005

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Jamie Stewart mentioned in an interview I saw that Fabulous Muscles was the first album his family members listened to and they were quiet upset about a few of the songs. Id say this is one of the songs that they didnt like. Probably about a relative.

I think its more a personal attack before an anti-war song.

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764-mouser
01-23-2005

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Damn good powerful song, well not song, but you know... skit, or whatever. I was amazed when I first heard it. you just never hear anything like this mainstream, its a great war protest, also dealing with personal problems like high school regrets I'm guessing.

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FabulousMuscles
02-13-2005

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This, structurally, is a beautiful song. I know it's difficult to think of it as song, but really listen to it, knowing everything was put into it intentionally (notice how when the "noisy" parts come in, it happens in rhythm). Listen to the little textures and voices of the song, because that's what makes it music, not just a spoken track set to noise. The words in this song approach irrelevance. The only coagulating factor is that the words are about a single, identifiable subject. Tristax! has the right idea...the words support the music, not vice versa. This song is very revealing as to Jamie's influences. It reminisced of the Microphones (another great noise pop band), as well as the greatest, first, and most influential noise band of them all, the Velvet Underground (listen to The Black Angel's Death Song - OBVIOUS reference).

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horse_tamer
02-21-2005

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jamie said in an interview that he had watched or heard footage of soldiers in iraq pumping themselves up for thier "missions" in a "let's go blow some fucking heads off" kind of way. this resembles what jocks do before a game (mission).

and really is it not blatantly obvious that a very very very large percentage of soldiers were most likely ex-jocks.

i think they carry that brutally competitive, win at any cost, attitude with them to war.


taught to win. winning being the most important mission for them.

that dynamic of their personalities is what jamie, i believe, is refering to. and there is nothing childish about that. it is legitamate.

and regarding his brutal description of the four year old girl's death...its just a very crude but true depiction of situations that iraqi families have been put in.

"please sir, can i take her body home"

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God2005
03-05-2005

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It might be a personal thing, but I think it is directed to a general public also. I doubt he meant jock as just a person who plays sports. To different people, the word jock can mean different things, and the same goes for most words which label groups. Jock may mean someone who plays sports, but I think what he meant by it was the type of people who have a need to be better than everyone else. They have a masculine overdose in their body or something, and they just tend to play sports so that they can get their extra aggression out while at the same time showing that they're bigger and better.
Not all people that play sports are jocks in my opinion. I think its more of the "I'm better than you" attitude than the actual playing of the sport that makes someone a jock.
The "I'm better than you" attitude isn’t even really about being better though. People are just told that you should be the best, so really, when trying to be better than someone else, its more of a need to impress others.

In my opinion (obviously), I think that this isn’t so much an anti-war song, as it is an anti-society song. Back during Vietnam, when the troops came home after going through hell, they were still treated like shit by people protesting the war. To avoid this problem again, a ton of propaganda was let out saying "support our troops" (no matter what).
Because of this, you never hear "I'm against the war" anymore, without a follow-up statement of "but I support the troops." I think he was just saying that some of the troops don’t deserve support. They deserve to die, unlike some of the people that they kill.

"Did you know you were going to shoot
off the top of a four year old girl's head."

I think the statement is really harsh during the release of this CD though because right now everyone participating in the war has signed up for it. A lot of these people -not all- are the previously mentioned jocks that need approval and power. (I know some people just do it to get money or schooling, etc.)

I have a feeling though, that if there was a draft, his message would change drastically. (A lot of the troops would be people forced into war.. which isn’t really their fault.)
P.S. Sorry I had to get all long and boring on you.

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indignity
03-12-2005

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it's a very brave statement to release a song like this. God2005 is right, no one openly critizises the actual troops anymore, so for jamie to do this, he is making a bold move. i think he's adressing one person in particular, but this person has affected his veiw on all the soldiers.

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teamblue
03-25-2005

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this song is about something he read in a magazine. In an interview with jamie he said that he was reading an interview where the soldiers were saying that they joined up just because they wanted to kill people so.. that's what he wrote this song about.

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listentocursive
04-30-2005

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"You shot your grenade launcher into peoples windows and
Into the doors of peoples houses just to see them blow up.
Why should I care if you get killed?"

Maybe I'm perverted, but I thought this was somehow a reference to having sex with someone (grenade-launcher=penis, house=butt) just for the sake of an orgasm and maybe he's frustrated that the man he loves just thinks of him as another fuck and he says he doesn't care if he gets AIDS

Just my opinion and the first thing that popped into my head once I found out he was gay and before I found out the song supposedly had to do with the war.

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The_Variable
06-28-2005

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..what...the ...fuck.

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proposals
09-10-2005

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So the Devendra Banhart version of this song is amazing.

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crumb
10-06-2005

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You are just being a pervert, listentocursive. This song has nothing to do with sex. It doesn't "supposedly" have to do with the war, it DOES have to do with the war. It's a very clear song.

Just because someone is gay, doesn't mean their music is necessarily going to be about sex.

How did you even get that? Didn't the bit about shooting the girl tip you off that this wasn't a song about gays or AIDS?

And I'm pretty sure Jamie isn't gay, he's bisexual.

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crumb
10-06-2005

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Also, a line is missing. Here's what it is:



"You shot your grenade launcher into people's windows and
Into the doors of peoples houses
but you wanted to shoot it into someone, just to watch them blow up.
why should I care if you get killed?"

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EastArcadia85
12-09-2005

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this is a very bold song.

i think god2005 put it quite eliquently.

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With_Teeth
12-15-2005

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How awesome would it be if the song was actually about sex like listentocursive said [even though its obvious its about war]. I'm waiting for xiu xiu to get so br00tal that he'll actually have a song about giving someone AIDS and not giving damn.

And yeah the Devendra cover was ridiculous [in a good way]

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thisisausername
01-09-2006

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OKAY YOU BUSH-SUPPORTERS, SHUT THE FUCK UP! THIS IS ABOUT HOW WAR IS FUCKING RIDICULOUS. ANTI-WAR! ANTI-BUSH!

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Clap Your Hands
02-03-2006

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I'm a Devendra Banhart song but he fucked this song up.

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ohpioneer
02-27-2006

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whoa. this song is warped. its so bold.

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