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Heads Will Roll by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Heads Will Roll

Release date: 2009

From It’s Blitz!
Track 2
3:41
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About This Track

Yeah Yeah Yeahs pit dance against dread on 'Heads Will Roll', a track that marries the propulsive thrill of the dancefloor with imagery of violence and excess. The song moves with relentless momentum, its repetitive chant of "off with your head, dance til you're dead" establishing a hypnotic pulse that draws the listener into a world of glitter, chrome and moral ambiguity. Written by the band with production by Nick Launay and David Andrew Sitek, it captures something genuinely unsettling beneath its seductive surface. The lyrics conjure a landscape of wet streets and reflective surfaces, bodies moving in unison, the boundary between ecstasy and oblivion deliberately blurred. There is no moralising here, no finger-wagging at the lifestyle it describes; instead, the song inhabits that space with unflinching directness, letting the contradiction between the music's infectious energy and the words' darker implications sit unresolved. It is this tension that gives the track its peculiar power.

"Heads Will Roll" is a single by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, from the album It’s Blitz!, released 2009. The track is 3:41 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

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Lyrics

Heads Will Roll

Off with your head
Dance til you're dead
Heads will roll
Heads will roll
Heads will roll
On the floor

Glitter on the wet streets
Silver over everything
The river's all wet
You're all chrome

Dripping with alchemy
Shiver stop shivering
The glitter's all wet
You're all chrome

The men cry out the girls cry out
The men cry out the girls cry out
The men cry out, oh no

The men cry out the girls cry out
The men cry out the girls cry out
The men cry out, oh no
Oh oh! Oh!
Oh oh! Oh!

Off, off with your head
Dance, dance til you're dead (dead)
Heads will roll
Heads will roll
Heads will roll
On the floor

Looking glass
Take the past
Shut your eyes
Realize

Looking glass
Take the past
Shut your eyes
Realize

Glitter on the wet streets
Silver over everything
The river's all wet
You're all chrome
You're all chrome
Oh!
Oh oh!

Off, off, off with your head
Dance, dance dance til you're dead
Off, off, off with your head
Dance, dance, dance til you're dead
Off, off, off with your head
Dance, dance, dance til you're dead
Off, off, off with your head
Dance, dance, dance til you're dead
Off, off, off with your head
Dance, dance, dance til you're dead
Off, off, off with your head
Dance, dance, dance til you're dead

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Track details

From It’s Blitz!

3:412009Single
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Album
It’s Blitz!
It’s Blitz!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
8th March 2009
Track number
2
Release year
2009
  1. 1Zero
    4:26
  2. 2Heads Will Roll
    3:41
  3. 3Soft Shock
    3:53
  4. 4Skeletons
    5:02
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Heads Will Roll

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Brian Chase, Karen O, Nick Zinner
    Producer
    David Andrew Sitek, Nick Launay
    Producer
    David Andrew Sitek, Nick Launay
    Bass
    Nick Zinner
    Drums
    Brian Chase
    Guitar
    Nick Zinner
    Vocals
    Karen O
    Assistant Engineer
    Chris Kasych, Matty Green
    Drum Programmer
    Nick Zinner
    Mastering Engineer
    Ted Jensen
    Mixing Engineer
    Mark “Spike” Stent
    Recording Engineer
    Dan Huron, David Andrew Sitek, Nick Launay
    Synthesizer
    Nick Zinner
    Tambourine
    Karen O
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