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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about All These Things That I've Done (page 1/ 5) ------ performed by The Killers well Niels Ingel | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/19/09 part of art is the ability for people to take different interpretations of it. If you find that it means something to you no one has the right to say your wrong. Likewise, somebody else might find something about religion, antiwar, etc. and they are entitled to it so when people fight about the "true meaning" of a song its just kind of funny. The artist might have had an idea when writing it, but it changes for each person. That's all im saying. It is what it is. | Reviewer: Niels Ingel | 6/15/09 Ppl are looking too far when they say it's about anti-war and god, religieus...etc... If you just listen to the song, you notice the feeling he puts in it is that he finds himself lost, lost hope. Needs help to get back on track. And despite that, there's still hope, he still is who he is, wanting to do good for ppl." These changes ain't changing me, the goldhearted boy I used to be" and " shine on in the hearts of men " :) it's just about someone with the best intentions who lost his track for now and needs help to get back on track. I don't think it's supposed to give it a more concrete interpretation like " anti-war" or "religieus" It's by God about people | Reviewer: Tim | 6/1/09 It’s a song written from the perspective of God speaking about people who only pray when they need something. It is a sarcastic reminder that people are happy in their daily lives and don’t think for a moment about God until they are in trouble. Then they pray to God: just help me out with this one thing and I promise I’ll be good…I’ll be your son. “When there’s no where else to run, is there room for one more son” Opening line stating God’s perspective: People pray when they are screwed (no where else to run). People pray that God will see them and they will become the perfect son if only God will help them. I wanna stand up, I wanna let go, You know, you know - no you don't, you don't God saying: “I want to walk away from the world” – I want to let go, you have no idea “Another head aches, another heart breaks” These are the prayers God is hearing. Someone asking for relief of a head ache, someone asking for help in a relationship “I am so much older than I can take” God is saying I’m old and I tire of hearing these people continually praying for help and forgiveness then turning their backs as soon as the situation is resolved. “And my affection, well it comes and goes” God saying I answer some people’s prayers but not others “I need direction to perfection, no no no no” Could mean a number of things. Ex. God saying I need direction, or could mean people asking God for direction then as soon as they are ok, they say no no nevermind I don’t need you. “Yeah, you know you got to help me out” A little sarcasm about the prayers God hears – come on help me out with this one please come on, don’t ignore me, don’t put me on the backburner. I really need this pleeeaasse help me out you got to. faded relationship with god? | Reviewer: E | 4/27/09 Possibly, he's talking about his own spiritual journey? "i have soul but i'm not a soldier" can refer to one who feels he should be fighting a spiritual war for God, but is not. The use of "son" instead of sun is possibly referring to the son of god. "I wanna shine on in the hearts of men I wanna mean it from the back of my broken hand" can be seen as he wants to live for god, and have a passion that is raw and real and noticeable to others. "I wanna stand up, I wanna let go You know, you know - no you don't, you don't" is him trying to explain the feeling of living for god but no one understands him. he knows this feeling because "The gold-hearted boy I used to be" used to follow God. "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" shows how he sees and knows he needs to change. "Over and in, 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" can be interpreted as repent for your sins while you can, because God will soon win the spiritual war and you will still be lost (like him), because of all the things you have done. Which is why he has such an urgency to find his way back to God "Yeah, you know you got to help me. Yeah, oh don't you put me on the back burner", but he knows he can't do it alone "You know you got to help me out. You're gonna bring yourself down. Yeah, you're gonna bring yourself down" but in the process others are going to have to change too, and bring themselves before God. Agreed | Reviewer: Megan | 3/2/09 I agree with everything Steve said. Brandon Flowers is Mormon and everthing else Steve said. And I too Doubt it was about Jesus. And to me it doesn't really sound Anti-War. I bet Brandon and the band didn't really think that this would happen to them. How everyone has different views on it and stuff. To me, I think they should tell the press or something about what it really is about, or tell them that they don't really know because they wrote it for the audience, like Steve said. Well anyways,, I think the song is awesome, just like the rest of The Killers work. Bravo! :] Love | Reviewer: Jared | 12/4/08 "I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier" I can wait around for you for awhile, but I can't keep on fighting forever in this war of hearts. "You know, you know. No you don't, you don't.." "Yeah, you know you gotta help me out" You know how I feel about you. Wait.. I'm doubting myself, again. Help me stop being confused. "If you can hold on, hold on" I meant it. Obvious religious overtones, too. Maybe love of God, if you don't want to mix the two meanings. Either way, definitely love of some kind. I don't think they meant it to be about war except the war of your heart versus your head in telling you the truth of your situation. And.. I "love" this song, ha. Can't see the wood for the trees | Reviewer: Steve | 12/5/08 This is very straightforward - it's not necessarily an anti-war song but it is definitely a song about war, small cog in a big wheel so to speak. I think people are over-analysing here, and as far as the writer being a mormon, well he wrote the song for his audience and not necessarily himself. There's a great YouTube video that this music is the soundtrack to, it's by 2nd Para Infrantry battalion in Afghanistan and it shows soldiers in the battlefields, not all bravado but simply getting on with a job they clearly have to do but may not like doing, and out of choice wouldn't prefer to be there but it's their duty. I think it sums up the key line which is "got soul but I'm not a soldier". They don't like doing what they have to do but they do it. Video ends with a picture of their friends killed in battle. It's a great video, and says a lot they chose this song as opposed to a more gutsy gung-ho type tune to show their work against. So for me, seeing these guys choose this and how appropriate it is, it fits very well indeed. Maybe it is about Jesus | Reviewer: John | 11/20/08 I'm not really a jesus freak or anything, but i cant help but put two and two together here. "One more Son"? hmmm possibly the son of god there. "Shine on in the hearts of man"? Some might say that Christ did that. "The back of my broken hand"? His hand was definitly broken after the crucifixion. "So much older than i can take"? Possibly refering to the timelessness of god. the whole part about the back burner and bringing yourslef down. obvious. And i would say the last part about the "last call for sin" and how "the battle was won" with all the things that he had done could just possibly somehow refer to saving people from their sins by dying on the cross. Again im not a really religious person, but i see more jesus references here than war references. who cares | Reviewer: Mary | 8/29/08 Honeslty.. who cares what the song means, it means whatever you want it to. It has different meanings to everyone. Why is everyone taking it so seriously. I love the song, I think it's awesome. I don't care how overplayed it is. And it makes a pretty good NIKE commercial :D Heaven | Reviewer: Strap | 8/11/08 I don't think this song is even remotely about the war. Flowers is a devout Mormon and he's subtlely mixed in some very religious themes while keeping the music mainstream. Flowers needs help from above because he's in the midst of a world that doesn't believe. He's worried that he won't be accepted by God because he's not gold-hearted like he used to be, and he needs "direction to perfection". He knows he has a soul, but he's not sure if he can be a soldier for his faith. He asking God not to abandon him because he needs him dearly. I'm not the type that automatically looks for religious undertones in music, but this seems pretty obvious. This song only relates to the war if you're desperately looking for that to be the meaning. 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