Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People

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Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People

What do you think of this song, its lyrics, and its meaning?

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ

Lyrics:

Robert's got a quick hand
He'll look around the room, he won't tell you his plan
He's got a rolled cigarette
Hanging out of his mouth, he's a cowboy kid
He found a six-shooter gun
In his dad's closet with in a box of fun things
I don't even know what
But he's coming for you, yeah he's coming for you

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet
All the other kids with the the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet

Daddy works a long day
He'll be coming home late and he's coming home late
And he's bringing me a surprise
'Cause dinner's in the kitchen and it's packed in ice
I've waited for a long time
Yeah the slight of my hand is now a quick pull-trigger
I reason with my cigarette
And say, "your hair's on fire, you must've lost your wits, yeah"
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/f/foster_the_people/pumped_up_kicks.html ]
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet
All the other kids with the the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet

Run run run run
Ru-ru-ru-run run run
Ru-ru-ru-run run run run
Ru-ru-ru-run run run ru-run run

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet
All the other kids with the the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet
All the other kids with the the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet

PeachyKeene

One scary song! But, really great tune

SimplyShanRunning

I think its now stuck in my head AGAIN!!!

♥Faerie♥

Have never really thought about it, but I love that song♥

chocolateandvodka

kind of annoying, but according to the artist(s) themselves, it's about a kid who is constantly left out of things and is basically focused on a group of kids he sees at the bowling alley that he wants to hang out with but has apparently really scary thoughts about.


i think the writer may have gone to a bit of a theatrical extreme with the dramatization of the perspective, but i see it.

it isn't about columbine, it isn't about a suicidal kid, and it isn't about any events that actually happened --- according to the band.

scs143

It's catchy, but when I catch my 6 year old singing it, I am quite disturbed. I did not know the lyrics or hadn't paid any attention to them, until I heard it from his mouth.

King_Bee

Good song...right now I have Electric Feel by MGMT stuck in my head...it makes my giblets tingle.

All along the western front
People line up to receive.
She got the power in her hand
To shock you like you won't believe.
Saw her in the amazon
With the voltage running through her skin
Standing there with nothing on
She gonna teach me how to swim

I said ooh girl
Shock me like an electric eel
Baby girl
Turn me on with your electric feel

I said ooh girl
Shock me like an electric eel
Baby girl
Turn me on with your electric feel

All along the eastern shore
Put your circuits in the sea
This is what the world is for
Making electricity
You can feel it in your mind
[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/electric-feel-lyrics-mgmt.html ]
Oh you can do it all the time
Plug it in and change the world
You are my electric girl.

I said ooh girl
Shock me like an electric eel
Baby girl
Turn me on with your electric feel

I said ooh girl
Shock me like an electric eel
Baby girl
Turn me on with your electric feel

Do what you feel now
Electric feel now
Do what you feel now
Electric feel now
Do what you feel now
Electric feel now
Do what you feel now
Electric feel now
Do what you feel now
Electric feel now

skinnywithin

I love the tune so I googled it a few weeks ago and its about killling kids like the columbine thing. VERY DARK song but what a catchy tune!

robyng1986

I love this song! at the beginning i could not figure out what they were saying... then closed caption cleared it up for me 'faster than my bullet'??!??! what a shock! lol but the tune is so catchy and i love whistling to the end.

BecksgotBack

I like this song...

it's that or have my daughter singing "i wanna see your Peacock"...she came home from the babysitters house when she was 4 singing "smack that".

there's worse things in the world

scs143

I like this song...

it's that or have my daughter singing "i wanna see your Peacock"...she came home from the babysitters house when she was 4 singing "smack that".

there's worse things in the world

What is it with that song? Mine was also singing the Peacock song after my sister drove him to the beach one day. Thank God he didn't sing it for long.

juliecat1

Love the song too. It sounds so hippie and happy go lucky. It wasnt until I was singing along to it that I realized what the lyrics actually were. So dark! Have you heard the unplugged version? Ill see if I can find it. It takes on a much different feel that way.

here ya go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maZuT3uR-gM

fbmandy55

I love this song, look up the Lollapalooza performance of it!!!!

Not a fan of the unplugged version they recorded live on Altnation.

binary_jester

Same idea as Jeremy from Pearl Jam

UsedToBeHusky

I liked the tune but never paid attention to the lyrics until my 12-year old asked me, "Is he saying 'faster than my bullet'?"

kendratiger20

Same idea as Jeremy from Pearl Jam

LOVE that song.. & the video is quite disturbing..

Pumped up kicks... eh. it's alright. Another Dark song with a sunshiny beat. :ohwell:

edorice

The song is disturbing to me. I looked up the lyrics to it a couple of months ago. They play it all the time on a local radio station here. I understand that the idea of the song is from the point of view of a troubled teen, but I don't want MY teens singing along with the song.

ImperfektAngel

Pretty cool when it first came out, now its getting kinda old

lilRicki

Same idea as Jeremy from Pearl Jam

the kids on my sons's football team were singing it in the locker room...and I kept thinking "it's just like Pearl Jam"...how controversial was that song when it came out?

morganhccstudent724

Like

I do a Zumba Toning Song to this :bigsmile:

King_Bee

Pretty cool when it first came out, now its getting kinda old

^^ Yup