The The is an English post-punk band. They have been active in various form… Read Full Bio ↴The The is an English post-punk band. They have been active in various forms since 1979, with singer-songwriter Matt Johnson being the only constant band member. The The achieved critical acclaim and commercial success in the UK, with 15 chart singles (seven reaching the top 40), and their most successful album, Infected (1986), spent 30 weeks on the chart. They followed this with the top ten albums Mind Bomb (1989) and Dusk (1993).
Early years (1977–1981)
In November 1977, Matt Johnson placed an advertisement in NME, asking for "Bass/lead guitarist into The Velvet Underground/Syd Barrett". Johnson later placed a second advertisement in the NME, stating his new influences as "The Residents/Throbbing Gristle".
While trying to get his band going, in 1978 Johnson had recorded a demo solo album (See Without Being Seen) which he continued to sell at various underground gigs on cassettes. In 1979, working with Colin Lloyd-Tucker (a friend and colleague at De Wolfe Music, the Soho music publisher/recording studio) Johnson recorded his first album proper, Spirits. This album remains unreleased, although the track "What Stanley Saw" was later licensed to Cherry Red Records for their Perspectives & Distortion compilation album, which also featured Virgin Prunes, Lemon Kittens, Thomas Leer, Kevin Coyne and Mark Perry.
The The made their debut at London's Africa Centre on 11 May 1979, third on the bill to Scritti Politti and PragVEC, using backing tape tracks that Johnson created at his day job at De Wolfe studios for the drums and bass. The band at this point consisted of Johnson on vocal, electric piano, guitar and tapes and Keith Laws on synthesiser and tapes. It was Keith Laws who suggested the name 'the The' to Matt Johnson.
As the The was now getting underway, Johnson was simultaneously working with experimental synth-pop combo the Gadgets, a studio group he formed with Colin Lloyd Tucker, his colleague at De Wolfe recording studios.
Peter Ashworth, then known as 'Triash' and later to become a noted photographer, became the The's drummer in 1980, and Tom Johnston (also managing the The at this point and later to become a cartoonist for the Evening Standard, Daily Mirror and The Sun newspapers) was added on bass. Although both Ashworth and Johnston were credited with appearing on the The's debut single ("Controversial Subject"/"Black and White") on 4AD Records, neither actually played on the recordings, which were produced by Wire members Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis. All instruments were played by Johnson and Laws. Johnston and Ashworth soon dropped out of the The and returned to their respective day jobs. As a duo (Johnson and Laws), the The began performing concerts with Wire, Cabaret Voltaire, DAF, This Heat, the Birthday Party and Scritti Politti.
In early 1981 the The also contributed the composition 'Untitled' to the Some Bizzare Album. In September of that year Johnson and Laws signed a deal with Some Bizzare Records and released the 7" single "Cold Spell Ahead". By this stage Matt Johnson had begun playing all the instruments himself so Laws left to pursue his studies, leaving Johnson as a solo artist using a group moniker.
Johnson was signed up later in 1981 to 4AD Records by Ivo Watts-Russell to record a solo album, Burning Blue Soul. Although all of the instruments and vocals were performed by Johnson, the album featured various producers including Wire's Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis, Ivo and Johnson himself. Years later, owing to a request from Johnson, it would be re-issued and credited to the The so all of his albums would be in the same rack together.
Towards the end of 1981, Colin Lloyd-Tucker and Simon Fisher-Turner joined the band for a series of stripped down The acoustic concerts in London.
Solo years (1982–1987)
Now freed from the politics of a permanent group line-up, Johnson was able to take the The up to the next level, and spent the next few years collaborating with a diverse range of creative individuals, freely changing personnel from project to project.
The The's next single was a retooling of "Cold Spell Ahead", now entitled "Uncertain Smile". Produced in New York by Mike Thorne, it reached No. 68 UK. This version is different from the more familiar album version, and featured sax and flute by session player Crispin Cioe rather than (as on the album version) the piano of Squeeze's Jools Holland.
In 1982, the intended debut album by the The (The Pornography of Despair) was recorded, but was never officially mixed nor released. Johnson apparently ran off some cassette copies for friends, and several tracks ("Mental Healing Process", "Leap into The Wind", "Absolute Liberation") were subsequently issued as additional tracks on the "This Is the Day" single. "Three Orange Kisses from Kazan" and "Waitin' for the Upturn" (featuring Steve James Sherlock playing flute and saxophone) also date from this era, and appeared as B-sides. Some of the previously-mentioned cuts, along with the tracks "The Nature of Virtue" and "Fruit of the Heart" (which were similarly recorded around the same time), appeared as bonus selections on a cassette-only issue of the band's eventual debut album, but The Pornography of Despair album as a whole remains unissued.
Around 1982 the The played a series of four concerts at the Marque Club in Wardour Street, Soho, entitled 'An evening of Rock n Roll with the The'. These concerts were weekly for four weeks and featured Marc Almond on guitar and vocals.
The The released their official album debut, the synth-noir classic Soul Mining, in 1983. It featured the minor UK No. 71 hit "This Is the Day", as well as a new recording of the The performing "Uncertain Smile". Produced by Johnson and Paul Hardiman, it featured guest appearances from Orange Juice's drummer Zeke Manyika, Jools Holland, Thomas Leer and J. G. Thirlwell (aka Foetus).
During the The's more prolific period of releases, from Soul Mining (1983) to Dusk (1992), most artwork used on the albums and single releases was produced by Johnson's brother Andrew Johnson, using the pseudonym Andy Dog. The artwork has a distinctive style, and sometimes courted controversy, most notably the initial release of the 1986 single "Infected", which featured a masturbating devil and was withdrawn from sale and re-issued with an edited version of the same drawing.
For the 1986 album Infected, the The still consisted only of Johnson, but was augmented by session musicians and featured friends such as Manyika and Rip Rig + Panic singer Neneh Cherry and Anna Domino. This album spawned four charting singles in the UK, notably "Heartland", which made the UK top 30. It was also unusual for having a full-length accompanying film. Costing hundreds of thousands of pounds, Infected: The Movie was shot on locations in Bolivia, Peru and New York. Different songs were directed by different directors, mainly Tim Pope and Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (of Throbbing Gristle).
Throughout 1986-1987 Johnson toured the world extensively with Infected: The Movie, showing the film in cinemas in place of performing live concerts. The film was also shown twice in its entirety on Channel 4 in the UK and on MTV's 120 Minutes in the US.
In 1987 Johnson also took some tentative steps back into live performance. Whilst promoting Infected: The Movie in Australia he had a chance encounter with Billy Bragg, who persuaded him to return to Britain and support Red Wedge, a coalition of like-minded musicians supporting the British Labour Party in its election campaign. Johnson agreed and enrolled longtime friend and collaborator Manyika to join him in performing shows in London featuring stripped-down versions of political the The songs such as "Heartland". This experience convinced Johnson to put a band together once again.
Return to a full band (1988–2002)
By 1988, the The was an actual band again, Johnson having recruited ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, ex-Nick Lowe bassist James Eller and ex-ABC drummer David Palmer as fully-fledged members. This line-up, plus guest singer Sinéad O'Connor, recorded the album Mind Bomb, which debuted at No. 4 in the UK Albums Chart and featured the band's highest charting single to that time, "The Beat(en) Generation", which peaked at No. 18 in the UK Singles Chart. The first single from Mind Bomb was actually scheduled to be "Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)" but with its chorus of "Islam is rising, the Christians mobilising" and sensitivities over the Salman Rushdie affair that had recently erupted, this song was deemed unsuitable for release by Epic/CBS.
Keyboardist D.C. Collard was added to the official line-up in 1989 (keyboard player Steve Hogarth, who'd played on Infected, had initially been asked to join but opted instead to become the new lead vocalist of Marillion). The band embarked on a lengthy world tour in 1989–90 called the The Versus the World. The live film of the same name, directed by Tim Pope, was filmed during the three nights The The performed at London's Royal Albert Hall at the end of the tour. Vocalist Melanie Redmond, who had just completed a world tour with Duran Duran, joined the tour during the European leg as a session musician.
The studio EP Shades of Blue was released in 1990. This included cover versions of Fred Neil's "Dolphins" and Duke Ellington's "Solitude" as well as a new original song "Jealous of Youth" and a live version of "Another Boy Drowning" from Burning Blue Soul. This and a later EP of remixes, 1993's Dis-infected, were compiled into a 1994 full-length album for the North American market called Solitude.
In 1993, with Johnson, Marr, Collard, Eller and Palmer, Some Bizzare Records/Epic issued the album Dusk, which debuted at No. 2 in the UK and spun off three top 40 singles in the UK, led by "Dogs of Lust". Another world tour followed, the Lonely Planet tour, at which point the band's line-up was reshuffled; Marr and Eller left, and were replaced by Atlanta-based guitarist Keith Joyner and New York bassist Jared Michael Nickerson after Johnson relocated the band to the U.S. Also added was Boston harmonica player Jim Fitting (formerly of Treat Her Right), who auditioned in New York in early 1993. Palmer bowed out partway through the tour and was replaced by ex-Stabbing Westward drummer Andy Kubiszewski. The band headlined the main stage at the 1993 Reading Festival.
Another full-length film, directed by longtime collaborator Tim Pope, was made for this album. From Dusk Til Dawn was shot in New Orleans and New York, and along with Johnson and Johnny Marr also featured various characters from the New York underground scene such as sexologist Annie Sprinkle, writer and raconteur Quentin Crisp, Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, and porn star Rick Savage amongst many carnival characters.
Now permanently relocated to New York, the The's next project was 1995's Hanky Panky, an album that consisted entirely of Hank Williams cover tunes. Hanky Panky was recorded by a new group consisting of Johnson, Collard, Fitting, ex Iggy Pop guitarist Eric Schermerhorn, ex David Bowie bass guitarist Gail Ann Dorsey (billed as "Hollywood" Dorsey), and drummer the "Reverend" Brian MacLeod. Their cover version of "I Saw the Light" hit No. 31 UK.Released by Some Bizzare Label / Epic
An experimental album called Gun Sluts was recorded in 1997, but left unreleased by the band after it was rejected for being too uncommercial by their label. The The severed their eighteen-year relationship with Sony and moved to Interscope, on Trent Reznor's Nothing Records imprint.
In 2000, the The, now consisting of Johnson, Schermerhorn, Nashville bassist Spencer Campbell and New Jersey drummer Earl Harvin, released NakedSelf and embarked on yet another lengthy world tour, the Naked Tour, this one lasting 14 months. Not counting soundtrack albums, NakedSelf remains the The's final released studio album to date.
This same line-up also recorded two new tracks, "Deep Down Truth", featuring Angela McCluskey on vocals and "Pillar Box Red". Both songs were produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley for the 2002 compilation album '45 RPM: The Singles of The The.
In June 2002 the The made a sole live appearance at the Meltdown Festival at London's Royal Festival Hall as guests of David Bowie. At this point, the band consisted solely of Johnson and longtime friend and collaborator J. G. Thirlwell aka Foetus on tapes and loops, and young film director [[]] on film and video. This was the last live performance by The The for sixteen years; Johnson had stated on the official the The website in the FAQ section that "There are no plans for one-off shows or tours in the near future but there will undoubtedly be another The The tour at some point."
Studio albums
Soul Mining (1983)
Infected (1986)
Mind Bomb (1989)
Dusk (1993)
Hanky Panky (1995)
NakedSelf (2000)
Tony (soundtrack) (2010)
Moonbug (soundtrack) (2012)
Hyena (soundtrack) (2015)
Muscle (soundtrack) (2020)
The Comeback Special: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2021)
Early years (1977–1981)
In November 1977, Matt Johnson placed an advertisement in NME, asking for "Bass/lead guitarist into The Velvet Underground/Syd Barrett". Johnson later placed a second advertisement in the NME, stating his new influences as "The Residents/Throbbing Gristle".
While trying to get his band going, in 1978 Johnson had recorded a demo solo album (See Without Being Seen) which he continued to sell at various underground gigs on cassettes. In 1979, working with Colin Lloyd-Tucker (a friend and colleague at De Wolfe Music, the Soho music publisher/recording studio) Johnson recorded his first album proper, Spirits. This album remains unreleased, although the track "What Stanley Saw" was later licensed to Cherry Red Records for their Perspectives & Distortion compilation album, which also featured Virgin Prunes, Lemon Kittens, Thomas Leer, Kevin Coyne and Mark Perry.
The The made their debut at London's Africa Centre on 11 May 1979, third on the bill to Scritti Politti and PragVEC, using backing tape tracks that Johnson created at his day job at De Wolfe studios for the drums and bass. The band at this point consisted of Johnson on vocal, electric piano, guitar and tapes and Keith Laws on synthesiser and tapes. It was Keith Laws who suggested the name 'the The' to Matt Johnson.
As the The was now getting underway, Johnson was simultaneously working with experimental synth-pop combo the Gadgets, a studio group he formed with Colin Lloyd Tucker, his colleague at De Wolfe recording studios.
Peter Ashworth, then known as 'Triash' and later to become a noted photographer, became the The's drummer in 1980, and Tom Johnston (also managing the The at this point and later to become a cartoonist for the Evening Standard, Daily Mirror and The Sun newspapers) was added on bass. Although both Ashworth and Johnston were credited with appearing on the The's debut single ("Controversial Subject"/"Black and White") on 4AD Records, neither actually played on the recordings, which were produced by Wire members Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis. All instruments were played by Johnson and Laws. Johnston and Ashworth soon dropped out of the The and returned to their respective day jobs. As a duo (Johnson and Laws), the The began performing concerts with Wire, Cabaret Voltaire, DAF, This Heat, the Birthday Party and Scritti Politti.
In early 1981 the The also contributed the composition 'Untitled' to the Some Bizzare Album. In September of that year Johnson and Laws signed a deal with Some Bizzare Records and released the 7" single "Cold Spell Ahead". By this stage Matt Johnson had begun playing all the instruments himself so Laws left to pursue his studies, leaving Johnson as a solo artist using a group moniker.
Johnson was signed up later in 1981 to 4AD Records by Ivo Watts-Russell to record a solo album, Burning Blue Soul. Although all of the instruments and vocals were performed by Johnson, the album featured various producers including Wire's Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis, Ivo and Johnson himself. Years later, owing to a request from Johnson, it would be re-issued and credited to the The so all of his albums would be in the same rack together.
Towards the end of 1981, Colin Lloyd-Tucker and Simon Fisher-Turner joined the band for a series of stripped down The acoustic concerts in London.
Solo years (1982–1987)
Now freed from the politics of a permanent group line-up, Johnson was able to take the The up to the next level, and spent the next few years collaborating with a diverse range of creative individuals, freely changing personnel from project to project.
The The's next single was a retooling of "Cold Spell Ahead", now entitled "Uncertain Smile". Produced in New York by Mike Thorne, it reached No. 68 UK. This version is different from the more familiar album version, and featured sax and flute by session player Crispin Cioe rather than (as on the album version) the piano of Squeeze's Jools Holland.
In 1982, the intended debut album by the The (The Pornography of Despair) was recorded, but was never officially mixed nor released. Johnson apparently ran off some cassette copies for friends, and several tracks ("Mental Healing Process", "Leap into The Wind", "Absolute Liberation") were subsequently issued as additional tracks on the "This Is the Day" single. "Three Orange Kisses from Kazan" and "Waitin' for the Upturn" (featuring Steve James Sherlock playing flute and saxophone) also date from this era, and appeared as B-sides. Some of the previously-mentioned cuts, along with the tracks "The Nature of Virtue" and "Fruit of the Heart" (which were similarly recorded around the same time), appeared as bonus selections on a cassette-only issue of the band's eventual debut album, but The Pornography of Despair album as a whole remains unissued.
Around 1982 the The played a series of four concerts at the Marque Club in Wardour Street, Soho, entitled 'An evening of Rock n Roll with the The'. These concerts were weekly for four weeks and featured Marc Almond on guitar and vocals.
The The released their official album debut, the synth-noir classic Soul Mining, in 1983. It featured the minor UK No. 71 hit "This Is the Day", as well as a new recording of the The performing "Uncertain Smile". Produced by Johnson and Paul Hardiman, it featured guest appearances from Orange Juice's drummer Zeke Manyika, Jools Holland, Thomas Leer and J. G. Thirlwell (aka Foetus).
During the The's more prolific period of releases, from Soul Mining (1983) to Dusk (1992), most artwork used on the albums and single releases was produced by Johnson's brother Andrew Johnson, using the pseudonym Andy Dog. The artwork has a distinctive style, and sometimes courted controversy, most notably the initial release of the 1986 single "Infected", which featured a masturbating devil and was withdrawn from sale and re-issued with an edited version of the same drawing.
For the 1986 album Infected, the The still consisted only of Johnson, but was augmented by session musicians and featured friends such as Manyika and Rip Rig + Panic singer Neneh Cherry and Anna Domino. This album spawned four charting singles in the UK, notably "Heartland", which made the UK top 30. It was also unusual for having a full-length accompanying film. Costing hundreds of thousands of pounds, Infected: The Movie was shot on locations in Bolivia, Peru and New York. Different songs were directed by different directors, mainly Tim Pope and Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (of Throbbing Gristle).
Throughout 1986-1987 Johnson toured the world extensively with Infected: The Movie, showing the film in cinemas in place of performing live concerts. The film was also shown twice in its entirety on Channel 4 in the UK and on MTV's 120 Minutes in the US.
In 1987 Johnson also took some tentative steps back into live performance. Whilst promoting Infected: The Movie in Australia he had a chance encounter with Billy Bragg, who persuaded him to return to Britain and support Red Wedge, a coalition of like-minded musicians supporting the British Labour Party in its election campaign. Johnson agreed and enrolled longtime friend and collaborator Manyika to join him in performing shows in London featuring stripped-down versions of political the The songs such as "Heartland". This experience convinced Johnson to put a band together once again.
Return to a full band (1988–2002)
By 1988, the The was an actual band again, Johnson having recruited ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, ex-Nick Lowe bassist James Eller and ex-ABC drummer David Palmer as fully-fledged members. This line-up, plus guest singer Sinéad O'Connor, recorded the album Mind Bomb, which debuted at No. 4 in the UK Albums Chart and featured the band's highest charting single to that time, "The Beat(en) Generation", which peaked at No. 18 in the UK Singles Chart. The first single from Mind Bomb was actually scheduled to be "Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)" but with its chorus of "Islam is rising, the Christians mobilising" and sensitivities over the Salman Rushdie affair that had recently erupted, this song was deemed unsuitable for release by Epic/CBS.
Keyboardist D.C. Collard was added to the official line-up in 1989 (keyboard player Steve Hogarth, who'd played on Infected, had initially been asked to join but opted instead to become the new lead vocalist of Marillion). The band embarked on a lengthy world tour in 1989–90 called the The Versus the World. The live film of the same name, directed by Tim Pope, was filmed during the three nights The The performed at London's Royal Albert Hall at the end of the tour. Vocalist Melanie Redmond, who had just completed a world tour with Duran Duran, joined the tour during the European leg as a session musician.
The studio EP Shades of Blue was released in 1990. This included cover versions of Fred Neil's "Dolphins" and Duke Ellington's "Solitude" as well as a new original song "Jealous of Youth" and a live version of "Another Boy Drowning" from Burning Blue Soul. This and a later EP of remixes, 1993's Dis-infected, were compiled into a 1994 full-length album for the North American market called Solitude.
In 1993, with Johnson, Marr, Collard, Eller and Palmer, Some Bizzare Records/Epic issued the album Dusk, which debuted at No. 2 in the UK and spun off three top 40 singles in the UK, led by "Dogs of Lust". Another world tour followed, the Lonely Planet tour, at which point the band's line-up was reshuffled; Marr and Eller left, and were replaced by Atlanta-based guitarist Keith Joyner and New York bassist Jared Michael Nickerson after Johnson relocated the band to the U.S. Also added was Boston harmonica player Jim Fitting (formerly of Treat Her Right), who auditioned in New York in early 1993. Palmer bowed out partway through the tour and was replaced by ex-Stabbing Westward drummer Andy Kubiszewski. The band headlined the main stage at the 1993 Reading Festival.
Another full-length film, directed by longtime collaborator Tim Pope, was made for this album. From Dusk Til Dawn was shot in New Orleans and New York, and along with Johnson and Johnny Marr also featured various characters from the New York underground scene such as sexologist Annie Sprinkle, writer and raconteur Quentin Crisp, Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, and porn star Rick Savage amongst many carnival characters.
Now permanently relocated to New York, the The's next project was 1995's Hanky Panky, an album that consisted entirely of Hank Williams cover tunes. Hanky Panky was recorded by a new group consisting of Johnson, Collard, Fitting, ex Iggy Pop guitarist Eric Schermerhorn, ex David Bowie bass guitarist Gail Ann Dorsey (billed as "Hollywood" Dorsey), and drummer the "Reverend" Brian MacLeod. Their cover version of "I Saw the Light" hit No. 31 UK.Released by Some Bizzare Label / Epic
An experimental album called Gun Sluts was recorded in 1997, but left unreleased by the band after it was rejected for being too uncommercial by their label. The The severed their eighteen-year relationship with Sony and moved to Interscope, on Trent Reznor's Nothing Records imprint.
In 2000, the The, now consisting of Johnson, Schermerhorn, Nashville bassist Spencer Campbell and New Jersey drummer Earl Harvin, released NakedSelf and embarked on yet another lengthy world tour, the Naked Tour, this one lasting 14 months. Not counting soundtrack albums, NakedSelf remains the The's final released studio album to date.
This same line-up also recorded two new tracks, "Deep Down Truth", featuring Angela McCluskey on vocals and "Pillar Box Red". Both songs were produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley for the 2002 compilation album '45 RPM: The Singles of The The.
In June 2002 the The made a sole live appearance at the Meltdown Festival at London's Royal Festival Hall as guests of David Bowie. At this point, the band consisted solely of Johnson and longtime friend and collaborator J. G. Thirlwell aka Foetus on tapes and loops, and young film director [[]] on film and video. This was the last live performance by The The for sixteen years; Johnson had stated on the official the The website in the FAQ section that "There are no plans for one-off shows or tours in the near future but there will undoubtedly be another The The tour at some point."
Studio albums
Soul Mining (1983)
Infected (1986)
Mind Bomb (1989)
Dusk (1993)
Hanky Panky (1995)
NakedSelf (2000)
Tony (soundtrack) (2010)
Moonbug (soundtrack) (2012)
Hyena (soundtrack) (2015)
Muscle (soundtrack) (2020)
The Comeback Special: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2021)
Kid Killers
The The Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by The The:
Absolute Liberation It's like the scenes in my dreams revisited You see I…
Angels Of Deception ******************** Well its high noon at the U.K. corral, …
Another Boy Drowning Monday morning, I looked the mirror in the eyes I think…
Armageddon Days They're 5 miles high As the crow flies Leavin' vapour trai…
Armageddon Days (Are Here Again) Are you right here Jesus? Ah Buddha? Yeah Muhammad? Okay But…
Armageddon Days (Are Here Again) - Remastered Album Version Are you ready Jesus? Uh huh Buddha? Yeah Muhammad? Ok Well, …
Armageddon Days Are Here They're 5 miles high as the crow flies Leavin' vapour trail…
Armageddon Days Are Here (Again) Are you right here Jesus? Ah Buddha? Yeah Muhammad? Okay But…
Armageddon Days Are Here Again They're 5 miles high as the crow flies Leavin' vapour trail…
Autumn Rain Look around Look around, look around Is there something I'…
Balloons Goodbye, Bye my baby Now there's no One can save me Yo…
Beyond Love Move away from the window And into the light There are som…
Bluer Than Midnight Save me, save me, save me Save me, save me, save…
Boiling Point They piss 'n' moan and push 'n' shove So below as…
Bugle Boy The country is riddled with social ills & aches, But my…
Darkness Falls Mirror, mirror, on the wall Who's the darkest of them all …
Darkness Rising Come, come Come your darkness Come, come Come your privat…
December Sunlight The early morning sun lit up her room But it wasn't…
Deep Down Truth Your bed At night Awake Uptight Your hopes Your fears …
Delirious When spring comes around & the ice runs away, & the…
Diesel Breeze The train rises up out of the dark Above the boarded…
Dis-Infected I've got too much energy to switch off my mind But…
Dogs Of Lust Here they come! the dogs of lust. Out of my mind.…
Dolphins Sometimes I think About Saturday's child And all about the t…
Dumb as Death's Head Death's pointed at your head Your mind on the trigger pull…
Dumb as Deaths Head Check my heart Check my legs Check the name tag on the…
Flesh and Bones Could you find me If I was dreaming Lost and lonely But I…
Giant The sun is high and I'm surrounded by sand For as…
Global Eyes Mobilize, globalize, hypnotize, homogenize Shut your eyes d…
Good Morning Nothing to do to save his life call his wife…
Good Morning Beautiful Satellite oh, satellite Who sits upon our skies How deep d…
Good Morning Beautiful - Remastered Album Version Satellite, oh, satellite Who sits upon our skies How deep do…
Gravitate To Me I've been watching you for ages. You're like a boat…
Heartland Beneath the old iron bridges, across the Victorian parks An…
Heartland (live3 Beneath the old iron bridges, across the Victorian parks, &…
Helpline Operator I watch the sun go down on London town I wait…
Honky Tonkin' When you are sad and lonely And have no place to…
Hot Ice Ah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I'm ju…
I Can't Escape From You I've tried and tried to run and hide To find a…
I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind Oh, I can't get you off of my mind When I…
I Saw The Light I wandered so aimless, life filled with sin I wouldn't let…
I'm A Long Gone Daddy All you want to do is sit around and pout And…
I'm Free at Last Recorded by: hank williams, sr. Writer: ernest tubb Capo: […
I've Been Waitin' for Tomorrow I'm hiding in the corner Of an overgrown garden Covering my …
I've Been Waiting for Tomorrow I'm hiding in the corner of an overgrown garden Covering my…
Icing Up I was sittin' on the window seal & staring at the…
If You'll Be A Baby To Me I'll be your baby And I don't mean maybe If you'll be…
Infected I've got too much energy to switch off my mind, But…
Infected (Energy mix) Infect me with your love I've got too much energy to…
Infected (extended mix) Infected me with your love I've got too much energy To swit…
Infected (Skull-Crusher mix) Infect me with your love I've got too much energy to…
Jealous of Youth It's funny how, as we grow old We cling to the…
Kingdom Of Rain Tell me what you're thinking baby Your heart's beating fast…
Leap Into the Wind If you want to make it, you've gotta give'em all Lay…
Like A Sun Risin Thru My Garden ";The sky is glowing with anticipation, & casts a shadow ac…
Lonely Planet Planet Earth is slowing down Overseas, underground Whereve…
Love Is Stronger Than Death LoveLoveLove LoveLoveLove Me & my friend were walking I…
Lung Shadows I close my eyes & you are with me. I can…
Mercy Beat *************** There's a high wind blowin, & the stars are …
My Heart Would Know I could say it's over now That I was glad to…
My love Who makes the robin sing My love, my love Who…
Out Of Control What's the point at all The rise and then the fall Like…
Out Of The Blue I'm a man without a soul...Honey Who lost it while parading…
Out of the Blue (Into the Fire) I'm a man without a soul... Honey, yeah I lost it…
Perfect It's a chilly English winter, And solitude is never easy to…
Phantom Walls Sensed but unheard As the curtain softly stirs It is not jus…
Pillar Box Red I paint my lips pillarbox red It reminds me of the…
Running Water Time hurries on, look and it's gone The changing of the…
Salt Water Wave upon wave Roll upon roll Tiny it shrinks Then huge i…
Scene 1 [H:] "Close your eyes and begin to relax. Take a deep…
Scene 2 Remember those walls I built Well, baby, they're tumbling d…
Scene 3 Alone at night I feel so strange I need to…
Scene 5 If I were a boy Even just for a day I'd roll…
Shore Lines Waves are rollin' in, lazy summer wind Sittin' in the sand,…
Shrunken Man Say it, say it, say it (He can't say it) He's just…
Sinking Feeling All my books lay on the table Waitin' to unfold I sit…
Six More Miles Oh, the rain is slowly fallin' And my heart is so…
Skin Tight Yeah, yeah You are a bad bad Mrs. In them skin tight…
Slow Emotion Replay The more I see The less I know About all the things…
Slow Rider I ride an old paint he's on the worry side And…
Slow Train To Dawn ******************* I followed that bead of sweat, To the sm…
Snow Melt Sometimes out my window I notice that you've been cryin' ove…
Sodium Light Baby As I sat in the back of that old taxi…
Solitude In my solitude You haunt me With dreadful ease Of days go…
Someday You'll Call My Name Someday you'll [F] call my name and I won't [Bb]…
Song Without An Ending I like you... I think that you're pretty good But I…
Song Wtihout An Ending Funny day, no one's here In the morning rain, there's no…
Soul Catcher Mirror, mirror on the wall You've watched me grow since I…
Soul Mining Your floating down a tunnel - in a little wooden…
SoulCatcher Mirror, mirror on the wall You've watched me grow since I…
SoulMining Your floating down a tunnel - in a little wooden…
Soup of Mixed Emotions I'm not mad, But sometimes I don't get it. You would rather…
Suddenly How can you tell by looking at me? How can…
Sweet Bird Of Truth ******************** 6 o'clock in the morning & I'm the last…
Swine Fever Fee fi fo fum Smell the blood of a gullible bum Brain…
Tender Mercy Praise the Lord, O my soul and all my deepest…
That Was The Day Well, you didn't wake up this morning 'Cause you didn't go…
The Beat How's about your company this evenin' Won't you say that yo…
The Beat Generation When you cast your eyes upon the skylines of this…
The Drive I know it's late now I know I Ought to…
The Mercy Beat *************** There's a high wind blowin, & the stars are …
The Nature of Virtue Don't change yourself to suit everybody else Don't change y…
The Sinking Feeling All my books lay on the table Waitin' to unfold I sit…
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@VTPSTTU
Thanks for the recap.
First, our society needs to stop allowing children to think that they are allowed to play with anything that they can reach. That may sound harsh, but the world will always be a place of dangerous things. If a child is old enough to get into things on his or her own, the child should have already been taught many times not to touch things without permission. That sounds harsh, but we can't keep kids away from everything that could hurt them. We have to start training them from an early age not to play with things that aren't theirs.
A part of that is teaching kids not to go into places where they don't belong. I knew by the time I was six years old that I wasn't supposed to go into other people's houses without permission. That this kid thought it was okay to go exploring in a stranger's home is another sign that the kid was either very poorly raised or a psychopath of some kind.
Secondly, the grandfather shouldn't be charged. We allow kids to think that they can play with anything that they find, but the chances of a kid finding a gun and shooting someone this way are incredibly low unless the kid is already a psychopath of some kind. A psychopath might understand the function of a real gun that way and do what this kid did, but for a regular kid, that's very unusual. If I'm on that jury, I'm voting not guilty.
Thirdly, I understand that the school can't release details of the threat made against the other kid. However, the details of that threat might be an indication of psychopathy. The authorities should be investigating that threat from the point of view that this child has a mental defect that makes him very dangerous. They may not be able to prosecute him for the crime, but he should be considered for civil commitment on a permanent basis.
@yinze0089
You're not going to fix this kid. He'll be walking the streets, commit all sorts of things, hurt numerous people, spend stints in and out of jail and then may finally get imprisoned for a decent sentence for something horrific after leaving a trial of carnage in his wake. We see this story play out over and over in our true crime genre. It's despicable.
@bmichellew2010
I hope that if this monster continues this path (more than likely he will because his parents seem indifferent) that he will finally get the prison justice he deserves.
@jamielehman4934
That's not true. I have empathy now as an adult that I didn't have as a kid. Also, do you even remember what it was like to be 7? At 7 I barely knew what death was, let alone understood the finality of it.
@jamielehman4934
Also, Mary Bell killed 2 boys at 10 years old but hadn't reoffended as an adult.
@brandyjean7015
It's scary that because he pulled off his 1st murder; he felt comfortable threatening someone else. If Grandpa had a new gun would he carry out that threat too?
@VernSherris
He probably would carry out that threat. This... THING is definitely a psychopath.
@keepingthefaith9041
Not necessarily a gun, he probably would go to the knife . Sometimes, they like a drawen out drama. Knives can take longer cruelty to die. More blood, sometimes, I believe evil people get off on cruelty.
@VernSherris
@@keepingthefaith9041 Oh yeah, I totally agree with you. And this monster would love to inflict a lot of pain on his victims, so he probably would use a knife on his next victim. Let's hope that never ever happens.
@JuliePlott
What's scary to me is that he killed the guy and never told anyone, most kids would have run their mouth and told someone. He killed him and went on like nothing happened. We know his feelings are off, no remorse, no feelings at all.
@dollyhood6549
right? i think that, combined w the fact that grandpa pawned the gun, makes for a fishy story.