The reason I'm so disturbed by this is simple. They sing so easy of death and killing. In reality it is MUCH different. It stirred some very, very vivid and powerful memories.
Warning: disturbing stuff ahead, don't read if you are freaked out easily.
When I was 16 my father told me its time for a life lesson and took me to a city. That day they were going to publicly execute a man. There was a small crowd around the market place. They tied the man's hands behind his back and put his head on some sort of stump. Someone took an axe or sword to it, I don't remember. I remember the head falling off, rolling on the stones, blood gushing everywhere. The corpse just tried pumping blood to the head which was no longer there. The muscles twiched, disconnected from the brain.
People ran for the head and started kicking it around, as if it is a soccer ball. You know, you are still conscious for 30 or so seconds after decapitation, and here people are kicking your face. You can't scream, your lungs aren't there. They blindfolded him, but through the kicking it came off and his eyes fell out, glazed over, dead. People didn't seem to notice, they just continued their game of soccer.
I threw up. I cried, I cried at an age I thought I would never cry again. Death is not pretty. Its horrible. That night I did not sleep at all. I kept seeing the body twitching, and the dead glazed over eyes.
All these lyrics awakened some powerful memories tonight, and I'm feeling very distraught right now.
Guys, death isn't fun, it is not easy, it is not pretty, to sing about it in that sense makes me want to throw up. Maybe its just me, but I'm feelin sick right now.
Hope you can sleep tonight, I don't think I will for a while.