Lyrics for Heads Will Roll as interpreted by dustybreeze

Heads Will Roll Lyrics
Off with your head
Dance until you're dead
Heads will roll
Heads will roll
Heads will roll
Heads will roll
On the floor

Glitter on the wet streets
Silver over everything
The river's all wet
You're all cold

Dripping with alchemy
Shiver stop shivering
The glitter's all wet
You're all chrome

The men cry out
The Girls cry out
The men cry out
Oh no

Off with your head
Dance until you're dead
Heads will roll
Heads will roll
Heads will roll
Heads will roll
On the floor

Looking glass
Take the past
Shut your eyes
Mirror lies

Glitter on the wet streets
Silver over everything
The glitter's all wet
You're all chrome
You're all chrome

Off with your head
Dance until you're dead
Off with your head
Dance until you're dead
Off with your head
Dance until you're dead

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MsAnnaIndiana
11-08-2009

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i agree with the alice and wonderland idea, but it also could have to do with the idiom, heads will roll, meanin someone will be getting into severe trouble.

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mandapple
10-31-2009

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well, i just have a hint that it relates to Michael Jackson. After seeing the video it is totally obvious they are paying a sort of tribute to him. i think it shows his dancing skill and how well he is while the crowd sits there and doesn't appreciate it. like how the whole molestation thing in court went down. after that whole scene not many people looked up to him. so perhaps yyys are saying he deserved the credit of his skill and as a human and the people were wrong in judging him (so they deserved to die ha). and michael jackson DID dance til he died.

not sure how i wrote it made sense, but it made more sense in my head.

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Udaho
09-23-2009

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~This is now in a MTV commercial!~

Dear Commercial Creators,

Why have you started using all of
our awesome music? Are you trying to
make it mainstream? I would like to
enjoy my music with a select few
cool people, and not every idiot in
town. However, I'm glad my favorite
bands are getting recognition for
their killer work. Please let us
keep our music to ourselves.
-------Sincerely, The Cool People

Examples of this:
Heads Will Roll- MTV
1901 - random car commercial
Too Fake - JC Penny
Daylight - Bicardi
ect. ect. ect.

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loverly23
09-13-2009

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This is definitely a rave song, complete with ecstasy.

The way I see it, it's someone who's been having a really bad time going to a rave, and then OD'ing. That's the point of the whole, "Looking glass / Take the past / Shut your eyes / Mirror lies" part. That hints a sort of addiction to some drug...and possibly hints that the OD might have been intentional. This can be further supported by the chorus--"Off with your head / Dance until your dead.." But whatever the intention, the person planned on getting fucked up to whatever his/her addiction was.

I also like how they made it all Alice in Wonderland-ish...the Alice in Wonderland books were my favorite as a child.

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Udaho
09-08-2009

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I <3 this song! It's so catchy. It reminds
me of driving to the club and your REALLY
excited and all of the sudden the rain
and wet stuff around you is beautiful
and fun not sad or dreary. (Glitter, Silver, Chrome)
IDK it mite b about drugs &/or
Alice tho

Dance!
Dance!
Dance!
Till ur dead!

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evelyneann
09-06-2009

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whathefuck haha.
sorry i hella didn't even read all the other comments that were about that.
but cool at least i'm not the only one that thought that.
hahaha.

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evelyneann
09-06-2009

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haha.
okay so i might just be a tweaker.
and i'm just like coming down and crashing hard
but is it just me or does this song seem like it's hella about thizz??


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megique
09-05-2009

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i've just noticed that on the Sleepy Hollow's poster there are the words "Heads Will Roll".

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analisalane
08-12-2009

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i love these lyrics, i love the song.
the song is such a dance and hyper song
with suchhhh dark lyrics.

i love it.

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moonlite7770
08-03-2009

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wow this goes so well with the book "Looking Glass Wars" :o
[it's a different version of alice in wonderland]
Pretty much the very first dialogue of the book says "Off with their heads!" lol
And the verses
"Looking glass
Take the past
Shut your eyes
Mirror lies "
go along with it very well too! O_O

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blc43519
07-31-2009

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pansy princess had it right 'off with your head" is alluding to the alice in wonderland part, where they all go after alice saying off with your head

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goingtospacebrb
07-29-2009

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I think it's about losing yourself by dancing. Embracing life to that extreme point where you figuratively lose your head.

"You're all cold" & "You're all chrome" means that you're metallic, lifeless. The singer rejects stagnation and projects an alternative, a violent kind of liveliness. Get yourself caught up in a frenzy. Off with your head. Forget your past and the mirror lies and just move.

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laserdanger
07-25-2009

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I disagree with the drug references. Keep it to the context of the song. I fail to see her pointing or even hinting in the direction.

I feel as though she is referring to a live show. If one were to look out to the audience and see the crowd moving it be like a rolling wave. "heads will roll" this one is a bit drawn out perhaps. but keeping context in mind it is supposed to be a dance anthem. I remember seeing a Rage against the machine video where the whole audience was jumping up and down. it literally looked like a human wave. amazing stuff.

the other verses seem to be describe herself standing on the stage. we all know Karen O is no stranger to glitter. the repeated references may be self referential. Unless silver and glitter are also drug references?

"The men cry out
The Girls cry out
The men cry out "

i see this much more as a crowd cheering, etc.

I am not ruling out the possibility of it being related to drugs. but doesn't seem to fit. feels out of context.

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deanbo
07-13-2009

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"The glitters all wet, you're all chrome". Like saying you should be up and dancing but you're just sitting there doing nothing?

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deanbo
07-13-2009

Rated +1 
I think this song is about "putting your all" into a show but the audience just sits there lifeless.

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holdin00panick
06-24-2009

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Karen O said something about it being about murder and death on the dance floor, so I suppose the lyrics should be taken a bit more literally? I must say though, I prefer all the interpretations of the ecstasy and rave theme. I love how that fits with the Alice in wonderland-esque nature of the song.

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shchoppi
06-22-2009

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very much about ecstacy lol. "heads will roll" and well...um about every other line in the song is about rolling if you think about it. fucking rave on. :p pluurrr

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HibbingismyHolyLand
06-20-2009

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When I first heard this I was very much reminded of "Thriller" and (okay, go ahead and laugh) "Everybody" by the Backstreet Boys. I was honestly surprised when the video confirmed that this is what they were going for! I'm not very familiar with X, or any drugs for that matter, but this song truly does have a dance-able beat, as does a lot of their new stuff. I still miss the not synthesized, but this is still that same kind of "exciting." Also, so far Brian Chase has been wearing sunglasses in all the music videos for singles from It's Blitz. Could this be a silent protest of all of the drum machine usage? Not much of this album is Brian actually playing. For an Oberlin grad, I would think that would hurt! I wonder how else he's been involved in the recording process?

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Jemi
06-08-2009

Rated -1 
I'm not a fan of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at all, but this song I really like.

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songofsongs
06-06-2009

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I think this song mite be about how getting addicted to passing feds and not looking at the pain around as can lead to the forgotten getting hurt or even being left to die. That it is sad some time that we care more about if star A is dating star B when so many other people out there are in need of our help before it is too late for them and us for that matter.

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bubezleeb
05-20-2009

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Expanding on abagofbones' comment, I'm pretty sure this song is about OD'ing on X. It has the frenzy of that type of panicked situation. Even the guitar part of during "the men cry out, the girls cry out" sounds like a siren or at least some sort of alarm. Her descriptions during the verse "silver over everything" feel like X at night. "Dripping with alchemy" combines the images of both sweat and chemical influence. The bridge has her almost lulling us into death with "shut your eyes." Nice nasty tune all in all.

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nirvana_cali
05-14-2009

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i thought that it was 'you walk home', instead of 'you're all chrome'???? and yes. COACHELLAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

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abagofbones
04-30-2009

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Yeah I agree with the alice in wonderland disco idea. I was reading party monster when this song first came out so it always reminds me of the club kids haha.

Also 'heads will roll' reminds me of when people are on x and they 'roll' :/

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pansyprincess
04-19-2009

Rated +2 
to me this is an alice in wonderland fantasy disco party.
just the lines "off with your head"
and "looking glass/ take the past.."
get my mind hung up on alice in wonderland.
then the imagery: "glitter on the wet streets/ silver over everything/ glitters all wet/ youre all chrome" screams dance party. not to mention the ever so dancable beat.



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Technophobia
04-15-2009

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^ hopefully, don't dance whilst in the car. ;]

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