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Off with your head
Dance 'til you're dead
Heads will roll [Repeat: x3]
On the floor
Glitter on the west streets
Silver over everything
The rivers all wet
You're all chrome
Dripping with alchemy
Shiver stop shivering
The glitter's all wet
You're all chrome
[Repeat: x2]
The men cry out the girls cry out
The men cry out the girls cry out
The men cry out, oh no
Off with your head
Dance 'til you're dead
Heads will roll [Repeat: x3]
On the floor
You can last
Take the past
Shut your eyes
Realize [Repeat: x2]
Glitter on the west streets
Silver over everything
The glitter's all wet
You're all chrome
You're all chrome
Oh oh
Off off off with your head
Dance dance dance 'til you're dead
Off off off with your head
Dance dance dance 'til you're dead
Off off off with your head
Dance dance dance 'til you're dead
Dance 'til you're dead
Heads will roll [Repeat: x3]
On the floor
Glitter on the west streets
Silver over everything
The rivers all wet
You're all chrome
Dripping with alchemy
Shiver stop shivering
The glitter's all wet
You're all chrome
[Repeat: x2]
The men cry out the girls cry out
The men cry out the girls cry out
The men cry out, oh no
Off with your head
Dance 'til you're dead
Heads will roll [Repeat: x3]
On the floor
You can last
Take the past
Shut your eyes
Realize [Repeat: x2]
Glitter on the west streets
Silver over everything
The glitter's all wet
You're all chrome
You're all chrome
Oh oh
Off off off with your head
Dance dance dance 'til you're dead
Off off off with your head
Dance dance dance 'til you're dead
Off off off with your head
Dance dance dance 'til you're dead
Lyrics submitted by dustybreeze
Track duration: 06:24
"Heads Will Roll" as written by Nicholas Joseph Zinner Brian Chase
Lyrics © CHRYSALIS MUSIC GROUP
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Dance til your dead, is something that can actually happen when you do this, but if you drink enough water, you'll just dance til your totally exhausted :)
Some people report mild hallucinations, type glitter/ sparkling white dots in their vision.
Here is a nice illustration : cdn.unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/…
Once I thought about the lyrics, I concluded that the "Heads will roll" from a guillotine, and you'll "dance, dance, dance until you're dead" from your writhing and twitching from a slow hang.
The streets are wet with blood and glitter from it. You're cold because you're dying, and shivering/twitching as your body dies.
I think the Yeah Yeah Yeahs getting people to dance to a song about people dying is an epic troll. Thanks.
Maybe I'm reading too much about this but it could be about fairytales in general.
And this mystical world is painted in "glitter" and "silver", seems very nice and dandy at first. However when she says "the glitter's all wet" and the "river's all wet", it sounds like, it's all wet from blood or..it's all mucked up, because later on in the video the glitter which was originally silver (on the drums) becomes red when the people get chopped up. Meaning this world is all dirty, it's a lie. "You're all cold/you're all chrome" suggesting you're hard on the outside and empty/lifeless on the inside. She repeats this lyric twice this toward the end and it sounds like she's accusing the people "you're all dead."
"The men cry out, the girls cry" cheering for the entertainer or replacement saviour, as we often idolize stars more than we do real religious figures. Than Karen as one of the entertainers, yells "off with your head!" And instructs the masses to "dance till your dead", just loose control on the dance floor and use up all your energy for that one purpose till you die. Seemingly, forgetting at the same time the concealed truth about this fantasy place.
"Looking glass, take the past" I suppose look at yourself in the mirror see what you've become and accept the past. "Shut your eyes" because "the mirror lies" - deny that you're a robot of the masses.
My own thoughts at the end of the video is that MJ reaches a breaking point when the light shines on him/full moon and he just looses it. Goes crazy on the music industry, the masses and just kills everyone. It's understood that when there's a full moon people are crazier than usual. This does seem to be the case for MJ in his career, as he was termed Wacko Jacko, accused of molestation among other things, everything just went downhill for him. RIP MJ.
Might be because I'm not a native English speaker, but it sounds just like that to me...