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The Killers – Mr. Brightside
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This was The Killers' first ever recorded song for their 2002 demo. The song was composed by guitarist Dave Keuning and the lyrics written by Brandon Flowers. It was re-recorded
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The Killers – The Man
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The upbeat, bass-driven “The Man” is The Killers’s first new song in five years and the lead single from their fifth album Wonderful Wonderful.
It was the last song recorded for
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The Killers – Somebody Told Me
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“Somebody Told Me” is the second single by American rock band The Killers. The song is featured on the group’s debut album Hot Fuss and was written by Dave Keuning, Ronnie Vannucci
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The Killers – Land of the Free
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“Land of the Free” is a song by The Killers, which handles tough subjects in America such as gun control, immigration and racial tensions. The song premiered on January 14th, 2019
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The Killers – Jenny Was a Friend of Mine
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This is the first track from the Killers' 2004 debut, Hot Fuss. Written by lead singer Brandon Flowers and bassist Mark Stoermer, it is one of their most popular and critically
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The Killers – Deadlines and Commitments
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[Chorus] / That place we all run to / It can come down on you / The expectation can be great / If you should ever tire / Or if you should require / Sudden simple twist of fate / [
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The Killers – A Dustland Fairytale
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“A Dustland Fairytale” is a song from The Killers' 4th studio album, Day & Age, released in 2008.
It was written about the story of how lead singer Brandon Flowers' parents met
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The Killers – The Calling
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Track 9 off the rock band’s fifth studio album Wonderful Wonderful which was first debuted at a show in London on September 12th.
The song starts with a live biblical monologue by
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The Killers – Spaceman
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Brandon Flowers’s commentary on rising fame and how it’s similar to being abducted, probed, and dissected by aliens.
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The Killers – Midnight Show
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It is a part of the Killers' “Murder Trilogy,” a trio of songs that detail the murder of a girl named Jenny. This song details the actual murder, and falls in between “Leave the
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The Killers – Smile Like You Mean It
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A fan favourite and classic that was allegedly written in a mere 8 minutes, “Smile Like You Mean It” originally released on the Mr. Brightside EP in 2003.
The song reached the
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The Killers – On Top
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[Verse 1] / Remember Rio and get down / Like some other DJ, in some other town / She's been tryin' to tell me to hold tight / But I've been waitin' this whole night / [Pre-Chorus
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The Killers – Runaways
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“Runaways” was released as the lead single off of Battle Born. In it, Flowers sings of the naivete of a young couple in love, and his inability to keep the promises he made.
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The Killers – Caution
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[Intro] / And there is nothing / I wouldn't do / There is nothing / I wouldn't give / There is nothing / Compelling me / [Verse 1] / Let me introduce you to the featherweight queen
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The Killers – Run for Cover
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“Run For Cover” is the second single from The Killer’s fifth album, Wonderful Wonderful. A music video for the song was released on August 22nd, 2017.
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The Killers – Rut
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As detailed in a Newsweek article, this song “is from the perspective of [Brandon’s wife], Tana Mundkowsky. ‘She has a complex version of [post-traumatic stress disorder] from her
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The Killers – My Own Soul's Warning
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[Intro] / I tried going against my own soul's warning / But in the end, something just didn't feel right / Oh, I tried diving even though the sky was storming / I just wanted to
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The Killers – Pressure Machine
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[Intro] / We met dragging Main at Spanish Fork / And he wasn't moving away from here, so it wasn't really— / And we could build a house here / But— / [Verse 1] / Hope'll set your
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The Killers – Wonderful Wonderful
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[Verse 1] / Don't you listen to the never / Keep praying for rain / Dancing for rain little girl by the drain / Motherless child, rescue rescue / Don't you listen to the never
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The Killers – Change Your Mind
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This is the eighth song on The Killers debut album, Hot Fuss
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The Killers – Spaceship Adventure
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[Verse 1] / Come with us / On a spaceship adventure / Flying through the galaxy / We'll travel far to see sparkling beauty / See the moon and see the stars / There's a planet so
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The Killers – Sweet Talk
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[Verse 1] / Lift me up on my honor, take me over this spell / Get this weight off my shoulders, I've carried it well / Loose these shackles of pressure, shake me out of these
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The Killers – When the Dreams Run Dry
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[Verse 1] / Can't hear myself think through the crashing of the rain / I'm passing judgement in the fast lane / And smoothing out a rough stone / Guess it comes with age / You
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The Killers – Spirit
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[Verse 1] / Wiped out, sucking on the fumes of a long-gone flame / Can you leverage love? Can you process pain? / It grabs you by the night / My dreams are big and bathing in light
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Street Sweeper Social Club – Clap for the Killers
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[Hook] / Now can you clap for them killers? / Give it up for them gangsters / One time for the killers / Double up for them gangsters / [Verse 1] / Well I wrote this for criminals
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The Killers – Bones
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There’s no song in the Killers' back catalogue that better captures their synth-rock tag. “Bones” is the second single from the record, and it’s an absolutely massive romp. Brandon
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The Killers – Quiet Town
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[Intro] / Oh yeah, oh no, the train, the train / Every two or three years, the train kills somebody / Every two or three years, yeah / Everybody knows about the train, okay? / You
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The Killers – West Hills
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[Intro] / Alright, well, I'm 26 so I've lived here for 26 years / I married my high school sweetheart, so we've been marri— / We've been together 11 years / Um, I don't really
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The Killers – Desperate Things
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[Verse 1] / She was doing sixty in a thirty-five / I hit the lights and pulled her over / When I reached the window of the driver side / There was blood from her mouth, dry on her
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The Killers – Sleepwalker
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[Intro] / Um, I hunt elk and deer, um, turkeys, just around here / Um, I've hunted antelope, um / And growing up, we had to be twelve before we could hunt / And now they've lowered
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The Killers – Sam's Town
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Flowers bemoans lost Americana as he thinks about growing up in a small town with big ambitions that the people around him seemed to doubt.
The opening song of the album, “Sam’s
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The Killers – Shot at the Night
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‘Shot At The Night’ is the lead single of The Killers' second compilation album, and was released at the 10th anniversary of their first London show. It was produced by M83’s
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The Killers – Miss Atomic Bomb
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Brandon Flowers told the backstory of the song to NME: “It’s a beautiful picture of this woman in the desert. I think she’s still alive. I met Bernie Taupin for the first time and
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The Killers – Terrible Thing
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“Terrible Thing” is the third song from The Killers' seventh album Pressure Machine. The song centers on a gay teenager who’s contemplating suicide. This song just as the others in
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The Killers – Just Another Girl
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Just off of the direct hits album, The Killers gives us a blazing new song accompanied by a great music video that pays homage to all past things that The Killers' have done so far
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The Killers (Ft. k.d. lang) – Lightning Fields
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[Verse 1: Brandon Flowers] / Last night I saw you dressed in white / Nothing around you / You were standing in the lightning field of love / You were waiting for the lightning to
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The Killers – From Here on Out
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[Verse 1] / A little birdie whispered in my ear / You've been cooking up a world of fear / Put your hands in things you shouldn't have known / He was riding in the danger zone
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