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AJJ

Bad Bad Things

Release date: 11th September 2007

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A track built on graphic violence and moral collapse. AJJ narrates a sequence of murders with methodical brutality, the voice detached and almost conversational as it describes killing a family and then turning on the survivor. The lyrics are deliberately transgressive, designed to unsettle rather than entertain. What saves the song from mere shock value is its theological preoccupation. The narrator, having committed these acts, contemplates damnation and the possibility of heaven with a kind of grim dark humour. The repetition of "If I don't go to Hell when I die I might go to Heaven" becomes both a confession and a joke at the expense of moral certainty. The song refuses easy judgment; it presents violence and its aftermath as a problem of conscience rather than a narrative to be resolved.

"Bad Bad Things" is a track by AJJ, from the album People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World, released 11th September 2007. Full lyrics are available below.

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AJJ

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Lyrics

Bad Bad Things

[Intro]

Ok, go

One, two, three, four

[Verse 1]

Do you remember me?

I killed your family

And now I am going to kill you too

I made your brother bleed

I made your father scream

And I made your mother say those things that she said to me

[Chorus]

She said, "Do with me what you want, but please don't hurt my family, don't hurt my family

Take my pride, take my life, take my body but don't take the ones that are close to me

Oh, do with me what you want, but please don't hurt my family, don't hurt my family

Take my pride, take my life, take my body but don't take the ones that I love"

And I continued without mercy

[Verse 2]

So I looked into your eyes

And I saw the reflection

Of a coward that you and I both hate very much

And then I grabbed a knife

And I let the blood out of your throat

And I smashed those tiny mirrors inside of your skull

And I got to thinking

[Chorus]

If I don't go to Hell when I die I might go to Heaven

If I don't go to Hell when I die I might go to Heaven

If I don't go to Hell when I die I might go to Heaven

If I don't go to Hell when I die I might go to Heaven

Might go to Heaven, but probably not

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From People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World

2007
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People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World
People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World
AJJ
Release year
2007
  1. —Personal Space Invader
  2. —Bad Bad Things
  3. —A Song Dedicated to the Memory of Stormy the Rabbit
  4. —No More Tears
  5. —People II: The Reckoning
  6. —Survival Song
  7. —Rejoice
  8. —Brave as a Noun
  9. —Bells & Whistles
  10. —People
  11. —Randy's House

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2007
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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Ben Gallaty, Sean Bonnette
Producer
Jalipaz Nelson
Drums
John De La Cruz
Vocals
Sean Bonnette
Acoustic Guitar
Sean Bonnette
Banjo
Owen Evans
Double Bass
Ben Gallaty
Mandolin
Dylan Cook
Mastering Engineer
Jeff Carroll
Noises
Jalipaz Nelson
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AJJ - Good Luck Everybody

Something of a crowd-pleaser, despite the dark subject matter.

20 Jan 2020 • 2:16 am