The Killers Follow

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• Brandon 0 points 2008-07-27 21:20

  i love the killers especially this song its so cool
  the chorus is the best

• Tim 0 points 2007-12-30 23:55

  "I pull up to the front of your driveway
  with magic soaking my spine"

  I think that line explains that the song is really just a jumbled description of an acid trip. The kid singing the song is wondering if the person he is with can "read his mind" and see the same crazy images that he sees. I think him and a girlfriend are tripping walking through their town and he has to stop because the drug has him freaking out. His girlfriend is trying to get him to keep moving.

• laura 0 points 2007-09-17 16:09

  hmm i've found these ideas about the lyrics very interesting. definetly think its about a break up and leaving the two star town..but also i get the idea of the girl saying it all to the boy wanting to leave and the boy telling her he's already thought it all before her...he was already about to break up with her too hence the can you read my mind?

  i love the last bit.. The stars are blazing like rebel diamonds cut out of the sun..it's very pretty

• rar 0 points 2007-06-24 17:16

  I agree with Brandon, cause I'm going to a gifted high school next year and will be moving out of my town. For me, the "green light" was the acceptance letter. "A city wall" surrounds my neighborhood. And when I was little I had a trampoline. I'll be leaving a special friend behind this summer. He's going to be out of the country for the summer and will come back a few days before school. I plan to visit him then...I wonder what it will be like?

• Ian 0 points 2007-06-10 04:36

  Actually, who cares what the song is about. I just found out Flowers is a republican. Well...i guess that ruined it!!

• Ian B 0 points 2007-06-10 03:58

  "I don't mind if you don't mind, cus I don't shine if you don't shine."
  -I think the song is about a relationship, he loves this woman, but they are having problems. They grew up together. She was the "teenage queen" and he was the sucidal teenager that she helped. She is upset with him because he wants to move on to other experiences in life. Now she is the one who is suicidal.

• i'maperson 0 points 2007-05-28 17:15

  Moving out of Mormon Utah sounds correct given the "two star town" line. the green light just means he can go, and a little fight is similar to a common symbolic phrase all of you probably used once in your life: "we can win this game still, we have some fight left in us" or something like that. The two stanzas that are not chorus mention many juxtaposing elements. We can imagine the honest man and the rest of the first stanza resembling his home in Utah (or a different era) and the second line, with completely opposite examples, symbolizing Las Vegas.

• Ines 0 points 2007-05-28 16:04

  i love this music,my fav!!!!an

• Brandon 0 points 2007-05-10 17:45

  You have to have experienced what Brandon is writing about to understand.
  Theres a guy looking back to before he experienced what the world has to offer and realising what a small town he came from (2 star town) and how weird it is going back.He left a special friend behind but later goes back to see her but they're struggling - 'put your back on me'. Its about trying to break free, the green light when you've MADE IT out.
  The broken wrist, the trampoline-small things he left behind that maybe mattered to him once. Can you read his mind?

• natalie 0 points 2007-04-27 16:15

  I love this song so much.
  The first time I heard it I cried.
  It’s a about Leaving the small town that you hate and moving forward which sometimes is a hard thing to do.
  Its a very simple but moving song.
  Very inspiring I love it!

• jazzy 0 points 2007-04-27 02:45

  i agree wtih Nibs way up there. i think it really just is about getting the hell out of a crappy place. it's about busting free and seeing the rest of the world and having someone to share it with.

• [k]atie.. 0 points 2007-04-21 15:42

  ..Love the killers this a absolutly awsome song!!!!!

• kayla 0 points 2007-04-11 23:26

  omg!! i love this song!! its the best and the killers rock they are soo good its not even funnie! yep and brandon flowers is sooooo hot!!!!!! woot woot!

• Matt 0 points 2007-04-08 06:39

  This song is totally about Brandon Flowers and leaving Utah behind ... there are all sorts of references (and Mormon buzz words) to him growing up as a Mormon and the common feelings of Mormon youth who deal with the same conflicts of faith. His lyrics sort of remind me of Bono's ... believing but "still haven't found what he's looking for " ... which video by the way was filmed in Vegas back in 1987.

• Eric 0 points 2007-04-06 13:03

  I think the killers rule, they are very unique and have catchie tunes, music rocks, their concerts rock, and the videos they have done are super cool and interesting. All the lyrics and the fun in the video seem related somehow. The song rules simple because people like it and it has sparked lots of interest in what it really means, like in life, and art it is all in the eyes, or in this case the ears of the beholder. Rock on and listen to their previous album. I find it rare to dig deeper into some bands albums due to limited good content, but this band has it. Rock on.

• Diana 0 points 2007-03-24 18:20

  I agree with Nids, for me the songs is so beautiful an one of the best singles of the disc.

• kzgzls 0 points 2007-03-13 21:16

  I agree with the comments of Nibs and Jenko. The heart of the song is about breaking out of a dead end town. The lyrics are at least partially autobiographical and refer to Brandon leaving the small Utah town of Nephi at the age of 16 to live in Las Vegas.

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• killers_lover! 0 points 2007-03-07 18:13

  OMGosh... i like love all of their songs.... their so kl kl kl!!! and Brandon FLowers is soooooooo hot!!!! what your views on their songs???? xx

• JENKO 0 points 2007-03-01 23:51

  Such a class song, i agree, i feel its about escaping the 2 star town and wants to join a girl in leaving, but only wants to leave if she does to, the references are about them jumping over the fears of leaving freinds and family, he wants to leave badly but he cant if he has to leave her behind and the memories of his first love.

• Nibs 0 points 2007-02-27 22:34

  This is not a song about suicide, it's simply a song about getting out of a small town and moving on. The trampoline is just a method by which they jump a "city wall" to make the escape. The green light is a traffic light, meaning "go." The girl already plans to leave; she's decided she needs to move on. The guy is just saying that he's been wanting to go, too, and that he never gave up on his dream of leaving. In a nutshell, he's just telling her to wait for him and that they can go together, because they both are thinking the same thing - get out and see the world.

• Dani 0 points 2007-02-24 15:31

  I think that guy #1 loves the girl, but is afraid to tell her, because of what her reaction might be, and also that she is with guy #2...but guy #1 can see that guy #2 doesnt really love her!! N that secretly she knows it too. I think "woman open the door" is guy #1 saying to her: let me into your life, and "put your back on me" is hime saying: lean on me, i will be there for you now. Also, i think the green light is refering to him getting an approval or "go ahead" for something...not quite sure what tho!! Or even inspiration from something? :S :P xxx

• Sara - Denmark 0 points 2007-02-14 15:46

  great song

• kotja 0 points 2007-02-10 06:34

  прикольна? пе?н?!

• Luke 0 points 2007-02-05 03:06

  I think it's about guy #1 who loves this girl. But she loves guy #2. guy #2 doesn't love her, so she wants to die. Guy #1 will die if she dies
  -The green light might be symbolic of love
  like from The Great Gatsby

• BILL 0 points 2007-01-28 05:08

  I THINK 'PUT YOUR BACK ON ME' MEANS BACK ME UP ON THIS ONE , SUCH AS COMING OUT OF THE CLOSET

• daisy 0 points 2007-01-26 14:16

  Can't figure out what "put your back on me" means? Anyone? He does say it 3 times, so it must be at the heart of the meaning surely.

• Claudette or Frenchy 0 points 2007-01-25 10:20

  This is Brandon Flowers favourite song, and it's one of mine. The killers music is just so different from the rest i love them !!!THEY ROCK!!!

• D 0 points 2007-01-17 20:28

  My take is on the girl is breaking up with the dude, and he's trying to win her over, which he does. At least that what I see in it, no suicide, no coming out of the closet wth did you guys get that?

  IMHO the best single in the album and it’s a great album all around

• Jin 0 points 2007-01-01 11:37

  I agree with Billy ..
  The song is beautiful! One of th best singles on the new album ! x

• Andy 0 points 2006-12-24 22:24

  what a class tune, i dont care what the words mean! Best song of 2006 in my eyes! The only problem i have, there are quite a lot of words to rememeber. I spend most the time mumbling them - cos i dont know them - yet!!

• Carly 0 points 2006-11-13 06:22

  I loove this song, bucz I can totally relate it to what me and my boyfriend are going through!
  The Killers are so unique, and they stand out from other bands. :D

• Stu 0 points 2006-11-06 20:10

  Great song.

• Rebecca 0 points 2006-10-21 19:23

  This is my most favorite song. Here is what my husband and I got from it. He loves this girl very much, and she dumps him, because like most men, they can't read a womans mind even though us women would like to think if they can. To get back at her, he commits suicide on her trampoline, so when she opens the door, (Before you Jump, tell me what you find) she will see him dead on the trampoline and there he will she will be able to feel the sting(Pain) that she caused him. That's what we got. It is such a deep and amazing song!

• BLAH! 0 points 2006-10-12 21:10

  It's "Woman open the door, don't let it STING"

• bill 0 points 2006-10-09 20:16

  www.mtv.com/overdrive/index.jhtml?name=music&id=1542106&vid=110826 - 8k -

  watch the video- it's awesome

  if this link doesn't work do a google search for:
  read my mind video the killers

• Nick 0 points 2006-10-08 10:55

  This song is so good probably my favourite on the album, does anyone else get shivers down there spine when listenin to this song? (and before anyone says it...No am not cold and i don't need to put a jacket on! :-) i agree with bill i think he's spot on with his comments.

• Saiki 0 points 2006-10-07 21:00

  omg
  it's gonna make me cry o_o
  Reading the lyric I understood some things
  I thing that talks 'bout suicide
  or something

• tony 0 points 2006-10-07 04:18

  read my mind

• bill 0 points 2006-10-07 03:58

  O.K. SO THERE'S A BREAK-UP, OBVIOUSLY.
  THE LOADED GUN, A WORLD UNSEEN, THE TRAMPOLINE- JUMPING INTO DEATH (SUICIDE?)
  I THINK THE SECOND TIME SAYS 'BEFORE YOU JUMP' NOT 'BEFORE YOU GO'
  'I DON'T SHINE IF YOU DON'T SHINE' MEANS I DON'T JUMP IF YOU DON'T JUMP(?)
  'SLIPPIN' IN MY FAITH UNTIL I FALL'
  'WOMAN OPEN THE DOOR, DON'T LET IT STAY'
  HE'S TRYING TO TALK HER OUT OF SUICIDE, BUT HE'S GOING IF SHE'S GOING

  ANY THOUGHTS?

• bill 0 points 2006-10-07 02:18

  i had never heard of the killers, then i saw them play this song on jimmy kimmel live october 5.
  i was mesmerized by it. i have no clue what it's really about. does anyone really have an idea?

• She 0 points 2006-10-06 03:23

  Actually I was thinking like The Day Of The Dead.
  Thats creepy haha.
  you can read my mind.

• Jenz 0 points 2006-10-05 22:51

  Congrats to jon0 and Lyricszoo for posting the real lyrics to this song. If you check on Google, nost of the other sites have different lyrics entirely - nothing like the song I'm listening to!!
  Nice one!

• Sandy 0 points 2006-10-04 21:28

  to, she says, a parade in Mexico? It would'nt be the day of the dead would it? so tell me can i read your mind?

• She 0 points 2006-10-04 21:04

  Yeah haha I get what you mean. I just can't read your mind...i only understand it haha. It reminds me of a parade in like Mexico. Dont ask why haha ,because I dont know either.

• She 0 points 2006-10-04 02:04

  I love this song. Its so pretty.