I had heard it before, a catchy little tune, with almost a weird al yankovich tone to the singers voice, but for some reason I had a strange feeling hearing it this time.  Was it the dark instrumentation?  Was it the out of place use of the word “molecule” in the lyrics?

There was something else going on here.  So I went home and listened to it, reading the lyrics as it went.  That creepy feeling returned full force, I was vindicated.  This isn’t a trivial little catchy song, it’s a incredibly deep powerful song that uses the trivial and the catchy as a spearhead for its point.

Check it out, read the lyrics, and continue reading if you’re interested in my wording of it.

People love doing things that are difficult.  And sometimes our need to be creative transcends our desire to be moral.  The atom bomb wasn’t created because people like death.  It was an engineering challenge, and it was met with the same enthusiasm of a kid achieving mastery over his bike.  It’s the same triviality, the same desire to show off, that creates all of these things.