"Thou Shalt always Kill"

How much do I love this song?

The hooks. Love the hooks.

But even more, I love the way it beautifully appropriates religion/scripture. The artists (Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip) use a familiar religious trope--the strident, didactic, moralistic preacher spewing "thou shalt nots"--and twist it inside out and sideways. The simple moral code of the original 10 Commandments becomes an ironic, self-contradictory, complex, self-aware, funny, clever, fanciful, serious (alternative) moral universe.

In essence, they've taken the 10 Commandments and made them into their own set of rules, effectively honoring the original as well as the very notion of a set of rules to govern one's existence, while explicitly subverting them.

BTW, the last line ("thou shalt always kill") is a colloquial expression for doing a great job while performing... not an incitement to violence.

This is definitely finding its way into a sermon soon.