Album: Legacy Of Brutality (1985)

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• We walk the streets at night
  We go where eagles dare
  They pick up every movement
  They pick up every loser
  With jaded eyes and features
  You think they really care?
  
  I ain't no goddamn son of a bitch
  You better think about it, baby
  I ain't no goddamn son of a bitch
  You better think about it, baby, baby
  
  The omelet of disease
  Awaits your noontime meal
  Her mouth of germicide
  Seducing all your glands
  
  I ain't no goddamn son of a bitch
  You better think about it, baby
  I ain't no goddamn son of a bitch
  You better think about it, baby, baby
  
  Let's test your threshold of pain
  Let's see how long you last
  That tappin' in your retina
  Unbosoms all your past
  With jaded eyes and features
  You think they really care?
  Let's go where eagles dare
  We'll go where eagles dare
  
  I ain't no goddamn son of a bitch
  You better think about it, baby
  I ain't no goddamn son of a bitch
  You better think about it, baby
  I ain't no goddamn son of a bitch
  You better think about it, baby
  I ain't no goddamn son of a bitch
  You better think about it, baby, baby Writer/s: Glenn Danzig
  Publisher: REACH MUSIC PUBLISHING
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Comments: 14

• Mark from The NetherlandsIt seems to be about “we” prowling the streets at night in a “scary” neighbourhood; where “they”; the prostitutes, and their prey roam.
  Although the first one and a half versus could just as well have been about zombies…
  
  The second verse makes clear that the “I” in the narrative has a distinct dislike for the “they”.
  
  And the third verse is about is about making the “they” pay through violence.
  
  The chorus is the sociopathic rantings of someone justifying their actions.
  
  So, if I had to hazzard a guess, I’d say the song is about someone abusing (or fantasizing about abusing) prostitutes (or women in general) to compensate for being ignored (having a small ego).
  
  An incel fantasy.
• Wayne from Ukit's about a punter (john) being rebuffed by predatory prostitutes. we walk the streets at night...they pick up every loser...jaded eyes and features (there's the whores). The line `her mouth of germicide...` the bit at the end is `seducing all your glans'. (glans? penis tip).....in the `let's test your threshold of pain' verse, the line often mis-quoted `that happened in your rape' is actually `that tie-pin in your retina' (not sure what the line after is though). great song!
• Mike from Tx, TxBMG in Detroit nailed it with his comment. Misfits 'fans' take too many titles and suggestions far too literally, and then apply the belief that every single song must be about a movie or novel. Research, people. It's the internet. Not hard to find info. Better yet, spend some time talking to the band members from any era. It's not hard to do.
• Diverdriver from Petaluma, CaThis song was on the "B" side of the single "Night of the Living Dead" released 10/31/79.The night of its release the band performed at Irving Plaza in New York City and sold the single at the door. 2000 copies were pressed on 7" vinyl.
• Tyler from Soldier City - Stc, Flyeah dylan i think the misfits ripped off maiden hahaha
• Greg from Marion, IaGiven that this song was not released on an album in 1979, but as a b-side), it's first official album release would have been in 1985, when Legacy of Brutality was released.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_Brutality
  
  
• Damien from Chicago, IlThis song was released on the Night of the Living Dead EP in 1979. Not 1985. The band broke up in 1983.
• Bmg from Detroit, Milet's clear up a few misconceptions about this song. first, it is from 1979, b side to night of the living dead. and true, cult and exploitation film is an inspiring force for much of the misfits titles and even imagery (their skull logo is from the film 'crimson ghost', their name is from a very intense (at least the horse breaking scene) Marilyn Monroe film) but even when they take imagery or quote titles, they mutate and pervert it with a wonderfully sick sense of humor, and a love for the bizarre underbelly of American pop culture and always some non sequitur weird horror poetry. example, "she", where 3/4 of the song is about Patty Hearst and the imagery caught on film at the Hibernia bank heist, and the remaining part is about sin & sex. so to say that because the title of the film was used for this song, that this is about the 1968 film I just think misses the essence of the misfits and of this song. it may reference some of the energy of the film, but this is a song about being a punk teenager and getting your ass kicked by vanilla jock types for having a devil lock or mohawk or whatever. or of middle aged people, parents, teachers, store owners of looking down at the rebellious and individualistic youth as stupid, anti social or violent. judging you negatively for being different. and in classic glenn danzig fashion, if he is hurt by something, he will hurt back. so to all those who judge him, he has a whole day of torture planned for them.
• Bad Fish from Niagara Falls, NyThe Misfit's broke up in early 1983, so how did this song come out in 1985. It's also an early song by them too, before all the ghoul make up/ right before Walk Amoung Us came out.
• Douglas from Waterloo1. This song = 1985. Maiden's = 1983. Therefore, Iron Maiden's predates the Misfits'.
  2. If you look at the lyrics to this song, you see that they actually have nothing to do with the movie, at all. That is, unless the WW2 movie is about wandering around the city streets at night ...
  3. This is still actually a really solid song.
• B-rye from Naperville, IlNo, that Iron Maiden song came out after this song.
• Dylan from Perth, AustraliaIts actually an Iron Maiden song.
• Billy from Otway, OhThe Misfits Are One Of The Greatest Punk Groups Ever,Especially The Song Brain Eaters.
• Graham from North Bay, CanadaThey even named themselves after a movie, The Misfits, which was Marilyn Munroe's final film

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