Bodies (Drowning Pool song)

"Bodies"
Song

"Bodies" is a song by American alternative metal band Drowning Pool and the lead single from their debut album Sinner. Released in the summer of 2001, the song is Drowning Pool's most popular single and has been featured in various films, TV programs, and advertising since its release. The song remained Drowning Pool's highest charting single until "37 Stitches" premiered in fall of 2008.

The song was used by interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in 2003. "Bodies" was repeatedly played over a 10 days period to "stress" Mohamedou Ould Slahi during interrogations while he was "exposed to variable lighting patterns" at the same time.

Overview

Musically, "Bodies" has an anthemic, repetitive chorus of "Let the bodies hit the floor!" Its lyrics build by gradually counting up from one to four, shouting the number each time, until reaching its aggressive chorus. Clean vocals in the song's bridge administer a contrast from the many shouted and harshly screamed vocals. The guitar structure of "Bodies" also features heavy use of the wah pedal.

Drowning Pool frontman Dave Williams stated on Uranium that the song is about being in a mosh pit but that it has clearly been misinterpreted. Williams elaborated in a 2001 interview:

"CJ came up with the riff, and I thought that was cool and I said, 'Let the bodies hit the floor,' and they looked at me and said, 'That’s pretty cool.' We just built it around that hook and the rest fell in place. It’s about my perspective when I look out and see the pit. It’s about forgetting everything that has happened to you that week, leave your bullshit at the door and get it all out. But you have to have respect for the others in the pit. If you push them down, you have to pick them back up. I’m not going to get behind the violence thing, it is violent, but there is a certain amount of respect and a code".

This song was also on a compilation CD released by footwear company Journeys along with the song "Start the Commotion" by The Wiseguys.

"Bodies" is a popular, preferred song of choice amongst some outlaw biker gangs, most particularly the Hells Angels.[1]

Music video

Much like the song's radio success, the "Bodies" music video found significant airplay on various music channels in 2001. Directed by Glen Bennett, it has the band performing in what appears to be a mental institution, with Williams screaming the lyrics into the ear of a man strapped to a chair. Clips from the video were later used in the title animation for the music program Uranium.

Lyrics

Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor

Beaten, why for (why for)
Can't take much more
Here we go here we go here we go, now

One, nothing wrong with me
Two, nothing wrong with me
Three, nothing wrong with me
Four, nothing wrong with me

One, something's got to give
Two, something's got to give
Three, something's got to give
Now!

Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor

Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Now!

Push me again (again)
This is the end
Here we go here we go here we go, now

One, nothing wrong with me
Two, nothing wrong with me
Three, nothing wrong with me
Four, nothing wrong with me

One, something's got to give
Two, something's got to give
Three, something's got to give
Now!

Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor

Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor

Skin to skin, blood and bone
You're all by yourself but you're not alone
You wanted in and now you're here
Driven by hate, consumed by fear

Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor

One, nothing wrong with me
Two, nothing wrong with me
Three, nothing wrong with me
Four, nothing wrong with me

One, something's got to give
Two, something's got to give
Three, something's got to give
Now!

Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor

Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor

Hey... Go!
Hey... Go!
Hey... Go!
Hey... Go!

Track listing

All tracks are written by Drowning Pool

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Bodies"	3:24
2.	"Bodies" (Live at Ozzfest, 2001)	3:28
3.	"Sermon" (Total Rock Session, London)	4:38
4.	"Bodies" (Video)

US chart positions

Chart (2010)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	119
U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks	6
U.S. Modern Rock Tracks	12

Appearances

• Boston Red Sox closing pitcher Jonathan Papelbon while jogging to the mound from the center field bullpen during a Fenway Park game.
• By World Wrestling Entertainment: the official theme song for SummerSlam 2001, One Night Stand 2005 and 2006, December to Dismember 2006, and ECW on Sci Fi.
• The promo video for the Xtreme Freestyle Alliance (XFA) racing team.
• The video game Arena Football.
• John 'The Ogre' Koziol was intending to use this song as an entrance theme before the downfall of UWA.
• The video game Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear in the Urban Operations addon.
• The theatrical trailer for the film The Punisher
• The theatrical trailer of the horror film Jason X, the tenth movie in the Friday the 13th series.
• The theatrical trailer for the film Daredevil.
• The film The One
• The TV spot for the film Rambo
• The film xXx
• Opening song for UFC's Ultimate Knockouts 2
• It appears in the 2010 music video game Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.
• Mentioned in the film Fahrenheit 9/11 (documentary by Michael Moore) as a song the troops like to listen to heading into battle.
• Promotion for the films Rambo and Stop-Loss.[2]
• A United States Marine Corps commercial.
• The film Stop Loss
• The series finale of the WB's cult show Popular
• The HBO television miniseries Generation Kill
• The comedy metal band Psychostick made a parody of the song called "I Can Only Count To Four".
• According to the Associated Press "Bodies" was a song interrogators used, played at high volume, over and over again, to break the will of captives held in extrajudicial detention.
• The entrance song for UFC heavyweight fighter Shane Carwin.
• Used as the main music in various YouTube videos of Televangelist Benny Hinn.
• Released as a downloadable song in the Rock Band Network on March 17, 2010.
• The game Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has US troops occasionally shouting "Let the bodies hit the floor!" when an enemy on the opposing team is killed.
• The HBO television series True Blood
• The song is also featured in YouTube's audioswap feature and one of the most used songs on the list.

External Link

• Official music video - YouTube (more that 25 million views).
• Official MySpace page.