Sympathy, sympathy
You want some don't come to me
Don't try me for sympathy
I don't feel sorry for thee
You deserve to die
You deserve to die
I have no adjectives for you
And have no feelings for the who you are
I feel no empathy for you
You make me realise the who I am not
Sympathy, sympathy
You want some don't come to me
Don't try me for sympathy
I don't feel sorry for thee
You deserve to die
You deserve to die
Baba baba ba ba ba ba ba ba (X10)
Quote (1) (Gruff on ringsaroundtheworld.co.uk):
"I think it'll make a good football chant: 'You deserve to die'. I wrote it for a film called Plop that was done by a group called Fukme 99 last year. It was a film about a group of selfish people who go round imagining they were living their last days, being very primal for their last moments, but you didn't feel any sympathy for any of the characters. When you take the song out of that context it sounds really heavy, but at the same time you had George Bush coming into power, and he'd been sticking people on Death Row willy-nilly. By the time we were recording it for the album, in America, there was some pretty barbaric things going on. The fact that the attitude to human life is becoming less and less respectful, so I was George Bush singing, which was not pleasant. It's such an ambiguous lyric, we want to make it clear which side of the fence we stand. It's also followed by Juxtapozed With U, which has a completely different, opposite lyric. No Sympathy is quite an unsettling song. The (DVD) film is very heavy, but quite comic as well. There's some amazing acting in it – there's a kid pretending to die, that's great acting. It's another wake-up moment. It's a fairly long album, our longest yet, it needs some spicy moments to lift it out of complacency."
Quote (2) (Bunf):
"We turned up and said we've finished the track, The A&R man said, 'That's great - as long as you haven't got a ten-minute fucking techno bit at the end.' We went, 'Ah. You'd better have a listen.'"
Where:
Monnow Valley Studios/Bearsville Studios
When:
2001
Source:
Track 9 (Rings Around The World): 6 Minutes, 58 seconds
Status:
Complete!
DVD director:
Johnny Shahnazarian - There are three parts to the unfolding story in this DOGME Collective/Johnny Shahnazarian film: a wandering Jesus character (Uma Thurman's brother), a picnicking family (Tara Fitzgerald's kids carry pistols) and a pair of weekend warriors armed with wooden samurai swords who like nothing better than to beat the living daylights out of each other for leisure. War and Peace...bring it on! A founding member of the New Brutalist School of relief, Shahnazarian continues in the long line of Armenian Cossacks from whence he comes. Having developed an early aversion to cocktail punks and half-baked wankers, he and his fellow New Brutalists, Prince Niuul and Dr. Skin, carry a simple banner bearing the slogan 'Just Give Me The Fucking Camera.'
Remixed by:
Kid 606 - Rings Around The World DVD: 4 minutes, 39 seconds
