On My iPod: Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People

The album cover

i heard this and then i was like
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amazing

Because you hear this type of thing rarely, and when it comes on you know that it is pure genius. Here's the lyrics. And a link to where you can watch in on youtube. Please listen. And it will amaze you. I swear. Listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ
LISTEN

The E.P. cover

Robert's got a quick hand
He'll look around the room
He won't tell you his plan
He's got a rolled cigarette hanging out his mouth 
He's a cowboy kid
Yeah, he found a six-shooter gun
In his dad's closet hidden in a box of fun things
And I don't even know what
But he's coming for you, yeah, he's coming for you

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks 
You'd better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks 
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet
x1

Daddy works a long day
He be coming home late, yeah, he's coming home late
And he's bringing me a surprise
Because dinner's in the kitchen and it's packed in ice
I've waited for a long time
Yeah, the slight of my hand is now a quick pull trigger
I reason with my cigarette
And say your hair's on fire
You must have lost your wits, yeah

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks 
You'd better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks 
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet
x1

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks 
You'd better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks 
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet
x3 

And this person wrote on a forum about what it means:

'its about a disturbed kid going on a killing spree.

1st verse: he is just about to start shooting, and is hanging around with a shifty look and a revolver and no one suspects a thing. and the cowboy stuff means he's having fun with the idea of how cool it will be (probably to have that power). Cowboys are also lone figures which is important. 

Chorus: pumped up kicks are probably like Nike airs and stuff, which probably means all the trendy popular kids, and hes going to shoot them. by telling them to run (even if not literally) he is playing with them and enjoying this, because you cant run faster than bullets.

second verse: it says "daddy works a long day" which i think has an ironic innocence in assuming he's working that whole time. i think whats actually happening when dad's coming home late and bringing a surprise is he's coming home late drunk and beating him. dinner on ice is neglection. dinner reference and "ive been waiting a long time" suggests that he is at the dinnertable waiting for his dad to walk in. on top of that i think it also means he has been waiting along time for the opportunity of revenge. now reasoning with the cigarette is entertaining himself while he waits. the cigarette is probably acting as his conscience he personifies it but also dismisses its opinion "And say your hair's on fire, you must have lost your wits".

^Reading that, and figuring out what the song meant, creeped me out. But don't be put off by that, ITS STILL AMAZING.