"Getting Away with Murder" is the first single from the band Papa Roach's fourth studio album, '' Getting Away with Murder''. The song shows the band's new sound and features no rapping at all, something that was used in Papa Roach's previous singles. The song is also the former theme song for ''

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''; it was a bit faster, had the heavily distorted guitars toned down, and had a backing whisper of the words "getting away" instead of "..with murder".

Background

"I wrote it so you can take it in different ways," said singer Jacoby Shaddix. "It can be about when you're doing some shit behind some people in your life's backs and they don't know about it but it makes you feel like shit, which I've done. But it can also be about what's going on right now in the political world (in the Middle East), or about these big, huge corporations who are so corrupt."

Music video

The video is performance-based, showing the band playing in a stock exchange hall with references filled with fans (including sexual imagery which led the band's lead singer

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to describe the video as "stocks and bondage" in an MTV2 interview). It was directed by Motion Theory. *In the opening twenty seconds, all of the band members are shown as workers in the stock exchange. *There are references to ''

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and Global Thermonuclear War calculations on the display screens in the background. Occasionally messages flash up during the video: "In God we trust" appears as a message, and then alternates between that and "In guns we trust" as well as "In oil we trust". "Murder accomplished" is the last one to appear. It alternates between "Murder" and "Mission" accomplished. The characters in the big screen in the background also change shape periodically to resemble the U.S. flag. Fighter jets, tic-tac-toe boards, and multiple copies of the skull and crossbones materialize on the big screen, as well as maps of the world and flying dots representing missiles. There are also Trading Places references too. Other messages appearing on the display screens in the background include WMD (weapons of mass destruction), MRDR (murder), EVLL (evil), NRON (

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'.*In the last two shots, the entire band can be seen with their hands and face covered in blood and Shaddix drops his microphone suddenly as if just realizing he has done something wrong. * Lead singer, Jacoby Shaddix said he wanted the music video to be "political and sexy".

Track listing

Chart performance

References

2004 singles 2004 songs Papa Roach songs Geffen Records singles Song recordings produced by Howard Benson Songs written by Jacoby Shaddix Songs written by Tobin Esperance Songs written by Jerry Horton {{2000s-rock-song-stub