Album: Hypnotize (2005)

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• So I felt like the biggest asshole
  Felt like the biggest asshole
  When I killed your rock and roll
  Mow down the sexy people
  
  Every time I look in your eyes, every day I'm watching you die
  All the thoughts I see in you about how I
  
  So I felt like the biggest asshole
  (felt like the biggest asshole)
  When I killed your rock n roll
  (Mow down the sexy people)
  Every time I look In your eyes, every day I'm watching you die
  All the thoughts I see in you about how I
  
  Eat all the grass
  Eat all the grass that you want
  Accidents happen In the dark
  Eat all the grass that you want
  Accidents happen In the dark
  Eat all the grass that you want
  Accidents happen In the dark
  Eat all the grass that you want
  
  Accidents happen
  
  Every time I look In your eyes, every day I'm watching you die
  All the thoughts I see in you about how I
  
  Why Why
  Why Why
  
  So I felt like the biggest asshole
  When I killed rock n roll
  When I felt like the biggest asshole
  When I kill rock n roll Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 20

• Kasey from Front Royal, VaSOAD just announced 3 new stadium tours. going to the one in NJ with korn. hope they play this song. it's the first full song i learned on my guitar
• Francisco from Phx, AzIt was Jackrabbit not a good rabbit.
• Dale from New Orleans, LaI see what Daron meant. He's comparing that poor rabbit's life to people's lives. That rabbit died unexpectedly. I think it struck a chord inside Daron and reminded him of his own mortality. We are all uncertain of how much time we have in life, so enjoy it as much as you can. Put simply, eat all the grass that you want. Do what you want and make yourself happy, but you could die tomorrow in some tragic accident. It's a very sad and emotional song, but people only see skin deep, because they're more into the music than the lyrics.
• Christian from Red Lion, Pai thought that i was since they were a Nu Metal band they were talking about Nu Metal or Thrash Metal killing Rock N Roll but i was wrong
• Evan from Dgdsrgdgdf, --When i first heard this song i thought the chorus said " more than the sexy people" and i thought it was talkin bout how nowadays rock n' roll is dying because music is becomin more about looks than music. now i kno that they say " mow down the sexy people" so i guess that interpretation is shot lol.
• Jimmy from Lancaster, Cayeah, Mike, gettin' high & wasted dont meen the same thing. Wasted means drunk lol
• Andrew from Easton, PaThe first time i heard this song i caught a hint of it being about rockstars doing drugs. but i was wrong.
  daron is NOT a crackhead. although i have heard, even though SOAD is against drugs, they dont count marijuana. ???
• Blake from Hamilton, OhI have another theory. Maybe it's saying how all of these stupid rockstars are giving ROCK N ROLL a BAD name by doing drugs, murdering, having sex, and other crimes. They are "Killing rock n roll" or giving rock a bad name.
• Matt from Blacksburg, Vai always thought it was about the decline of the music industry and how power hungry execs have "killed rock and roll" by releasing crap for money.
• Reynaldo from Denver, Cook i agree with the last dude marco when he killed the rabbit he named it ok and when he saw the other rabbit that looked like the one he killed he remebers about rock n roll soo when he says eat all the grass that you want accidents happen in the dark hes talking to the rabbit telling him how it waz a mistake and he won't kill him but hey thats how i see that part you tell me what the sexy people have to do with anything @_@
• Kyle from Little Rock, ArI saw a concert version before the song started Daron said "There is no such as Rock N' Roll, Rock N' Roll is only a label, and we hate labels. We are here to kill RockN' Roll"
• Chris from Bradenton, FlSystem of a Down are against most drugs, but are not at all against marijuana, thus they get high. I read an interview in Guitar One with Daron Malakian and they make numerous references to a four foot bong in his living room that he lit up several times.
• Jake from Naperville, IlTo mike, wasted and high are not the same thing you retard. System may write one or two songs about gettin' high but they are against drugs.
• Mike from Petersham, MaUm it sounds like some people think that SOAD are against drug use. WRONG!!! lol Their song Peephole is about "(deleted) getting high" as Serj described at a live show they played. And you can tell that Shavo is wasted during the KROQ show they did.
• Blake from Hamilton, OhThis song is great. It has an amzing intro, and they're right: Other rockstars out there do nothing but drugs and they suck. Wow let's sing about drugs, but friggin deal. SOAD is tight, and I love this band. In fact, this is my favorite modern day band.
• Kristin Hansen from Bryan, OhThis song Kicks Face! its really good. this song is about how tons of pple all over the world who DONT like System, think that they're "killing rock" because they sing about "nothing." or "stupid sh*t" when actually all of their songs have a great perpose. so theyre telling people "hey you think we're kiling rock and roll? go to hell!! eat all the grass that you want (do all your drugs) accidents happen in the dark (your gonna get whats coming to you)" and thats the deal.
• Chaz from Richmond, Vaeat all the grass that you want...daron is a crack head. period.
• Tony from Chicago, IlI saw this one live... Daron makes an introduction as follows:
  
  When I was little, God talked to me.
  and he said, you motherfxxer
  and I said, you motherfxxer...
  and he said, you gotta grow up strong, so one day you can kill rock n' roll, and all their sexy people.
• Yuya from Kyoto, JapanI have a concert version, and at the beginning, Daron says that this is about a time when he talked to God and said "You are a mother fu**er" THen God told him "No you stop being an immature mother fu**er so kill rock and roll and fu** all the sexy people.
• Marco from Brownsville , TxI read on another site that this song is about a rabbit that Daron(guitarist) killed on his way to work, he felt so bad that he decided to bury it properly. when he came back there was another rabbit that looked exactly like the one he killed. Daron then kept it and named it Rock n' Roll. I read it on Systemofadownonline.com

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