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Published: 29th June 2010
All These Things That I've Done" is a song performed by The Killers, and written by lead vocalist Brandon Flowers. The song appears on their debut album Hot Fuss. It was released as the third single in 2004 in the United Kingdom and as the fourth single in the United States. The single peaked at 74 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at 18 in the UK Singles Chart.
Live 8 performances
"All These Things That I've Done" was the only song the band performed at Live 8. The song features an extended refrain of "I got soul, but I'm not a soldier", a phrase now associated with it. Robbie Williams incorporated this refrain into his own performance.[1] Coldplay and U2 followed suit and, at their separate concerts played in Las Vegas, with The Killers in the crowd, incorporated the line into their songs "God Put a Smile upon Your Face" and "Beautiful Day", respectively.[2]
In other media
The song was featured in the closing credits of the 2005 film The Matador, as well as the 2007 movie Southland Tales as a crucial part of the storyline in which Pilot Abilene (played by Justin Timberlake) lip-synchs it. It was also mentioned in the graphic novel preceding the film, Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga. It also played over the opening of the pilot of the television series Jericho.
In addition, it is heard at the end of the 2008 Ben Stein film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. While the band did give permission for the song to be used, they only did so because they were misled about the intent of the movie. They later sought to have the song removed from the film, but it was too late.[3][4]
The song plays in virtually its entirety over the first segment of the first episode of the 2008 PBS documentary series Carrier. Nike used the song in a commercial for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Following this Nike ad, the song rose as high as #38 on iTunes. It is played at the Bell Centre in Montreal before every Montreal Canadiens home game.
In March 2009 it was voted in UK newspaper the Telegraph's 100 Greatest Songs of All Time at 65 , the newspaper praised the song by saying Anthemic plea for succour from one of the shining songwriting talents of today. He’s got soul but he’s not a soldier. [5]
The song was used at the end of the 2009 U.S. Open tennis tournament to show the tournament's highlights.
Comedian Bill Bailey made reference to the lyrics "I got soul, but I'm not a soldier" in his Tinselworm Live DVD, mentioning that they were meaningless and might as well be "I got ham, but I'm not a hamster."
In October 2009, a band formed by War Child charity called The Young Soul Rebels (which includes musicians such as N-Dubz, Pixie Lott, Kid British, Tinchy Stryder and more) released "I Got Soul", which is a cover of "All These Things That I've Done".
Season 8 American Idol winner Kris Allen performed this on the Idol Tour as part of his set--a last-minute replacement for the coronation song, "No Boundaries".
The song was also used in Almost Skateboards' skate video, Almost: Round Three, for Daewon Song's part.
Over the years the song has been integrated as part of the political campaign for the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom, and more specifically the theme music for the leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister, David Cameron MP. The music was chosen to reflect the apparent modernisation he has introduced to the political party since becoming leader.
Like "Mr. Brightside", the song features two videos. The earlier version, which features The Killers singing while walking down Brick Lane, in London accompanied by a crowd. The video also featured shots of the audience who attended The Killers concert at the London Astoria, on July 8, 2004. The later version, directed by Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn, features a surreal, dream-like sequence, where The Killers, dressed as cowboys, are attacked by scantily-clad female warriors armed with boomerangs. The story in the video is told out of order, but can be put in its order by the numbers displayed in the video. The latter video was influenced by the films of Russ Meyer, particularly Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, through the use of aggressive, large-breasted female characters.
Both the first and second versions of the video have over 2 million views on YouTube.
The Invisible Children movement also made a video featuring the song, following a nationwide protest against the mass abduction and forced recruiting of children into a terrorist military group in Northern Uganda. In that video, the words "I got soul, but I'm not a soldier" are used to refer to African children forced to fight and kill others.[2]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw2vBYBE24Y - Watch "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers on you tube.
The lyrics so you can sing along:-
When there's nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son
One more son
If you can hold on
If you can hold on, hold on
I wanna stand up, I wanna let go
You know, you know - no you don't, you don't
I wanna shine on in the hearts of men
I want a meaning from the back of my broken hand
Another head aches, another heart breaks
I am so much older than I can take
And my affection, well it comes and goes
I need direction to perfection, no no no no
Help me out
Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the blackburner
You know you got to help me out
And when there's nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son
These changes ain't changing me
The cold-hearted boy I used to be
Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the blackburner
You know you got to help me out
You're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down
I got soul, but I'm not a soldier
I got soul, but I'm not a soldier
...
Yeah, you know you got to help me out
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the blackburner
You know you got to help me out
You're gonna bring yourself down
You're gonna bring yourself down
Yeah, oh don't you put me on the blackburner
Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down
Over and out, last call for sin
While everyone's lost, the battle is won
With all these things that I've done
All these things that I've done
If you can hold on
If you can hold on
