Jarvis: I Will Kill Again (song)

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Credits

  • Jarvis Cocker (lead vocal, piano, mellotron flute, MemoryMoog)
  • Philip Sheppard (choral & string arrangement)

Written by: Jarvis Cocker
Produced by: Graham Sutton and Jarvis Cocker

Lyrics

Build yourself a castle
Keep your family safe from harm
Get into classical music
Raise rabbits on a farm

Log on in the night time
Drink a half-bottle of wine
Buy a couple of records
Look at naked girls from time to time

And people tell me
what a real nice guy you are
So come on, serenade me
on your acoustic guitar

And don't believe me
if I claim to be your friend
'cos given half the chance
I know that I will kill again
I will kill again

And wouldn't it be nice
for all the world to live in peace?
And no-one gets ill or ever dies
or dies of boredom at the very least

And people tell me
what a real nice guy you are
So come on, serenade me
on your acoustic guitar

And don't believe me
if I claim to be your friend
'cos given half the chance
I know that I will kill again
I will kill again

I will kill again
I will kill again
I will kill again
I will kill again

Jarvis' comments

I suppose it’s a recurring theme on the record, achieving some kind of acceptance of the darker side of yourself which I think is necessary. It’s always the same in the papers, isn’t it? “He seemed like a nice bloke, an upstanding member of society, six years of marriage, bludgeons people to death…” If you repress that thing – don’t somehow accept or give voice to the dodgy aspects of your character – it builds up and comes out in some kind of explosive, destructive action.

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