Kill Rock & Roll

"Kill Rock & Roll"
Song

Kill Rock 'N Roll is the third track and third single from System of a Down's 2005 album Hypnotize. This song had been one of the few songs that the band had performed before the release of the album. The song was supposedly inspired by a rabbit that guitarist Daron Malakian ran over. He buried the rabbit and when he arrived at work, he saw a rabbit that looked exactly like him. He named it "Rock & Roll." At the Ozzfest 2006 performance in Chula Vista, before playing Kill Rock 'N Roll, Daron Malakian stated: "There is no such thing as 'rock and roll'. There is only music. 'Rock and roll' is only a label, and we hate labels. We are here to kill rock and roll!" This is possibly hinting at the meaning of the song.

Concert Version

On a concert version, Daron had told the meaning of the song. At the beginning, he said:

"When I was little boy, I used to talk to God. And I said, "you motherfucker." And he said "You motherfucker... gotta grow up ... and KILL rock 'n' roll. He said KILL Rock 'n' roll, and FUCK all the sexy people." So I did."

Leakage

This song had been leaked on the internet before the album came out. In the band's original performances of the song, the words "fuck all the sexy people" were used in place of the album's version, "mow down the sexy people" just cuz I felt like it

External links

• Lyrics