Chords for Ice Nine Kills - The Stories Behind The Songs

[B] I'm Spencer from Ice Nine Kills and I'm here to tell you stories behind [Bm] my band's songs.
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[A] So what's interesting [Dm] about this new song which is called Enjoy Your Slang,
[E] our last album every song was about [A] a different book.
_ And when that [F] album came out our fans [Bm] loved it.
And it wasn't long [A] after the album came out where fans were like,
you know, we love this album, you [B] guys should do a song about this book or this book
or [Dm] this favorite book of mine because we want to [A] hear Ice Nine Kills interpretation of a [B] different book.
So [G] we began to see [C] that The Shining [A] and Psycho [Bm] were two of the most _ [Dm]
popular ones
that people would sort of throw out to us.
When it came time [F#m] to do a new song [F] which we wanted to have [A] close up sort of the album [D] cycle,
we thought wouldn't it be a cool [A] idea to let fans vote [G] between _ which [D]
book we would base our next song off.
So it was either [F#m] The Shining or Psycho and [F] The Shining won.
And we were [A] excited about that, you know, we're big fans of [Dm] the novel and of the film.
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_ [G] And when we were [F] on tour last fall in the UK, we [G] were touring with Shields, great band from the UK.
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We became friendly with them and we learned that [N] Sam, the guitarist singer, is Stanley Kubrick's grandson, [D] the director of The Shining.
[A] So when it came time [F] to record the song, we were like, [N] we love Sam's voice, let's get him involved in the song.
So [D] he ended up doing guest vocals [A] _ on the track about The Shining which is such a cool connection to the legacy of the story and everything. _
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Howl in the Hallways was [Dm] again off every trick in the book [A] based on another Stephen King novel, [Am] Carrie, which was [B] actually his first [Dm] novel that he ever wrote.
And [A] I think a story like that _ [B] was so powerful when it [Dm] was released and is still powerful today [A] because it deals with [F#m] the epidemic [F] of bullying
and how terrible [A] that can be on _ [D] the person being bullied and the bully.
[A] They've [G] done psychological [D] analysis on the effects of that kind of behavior and it [A] really can destroy someone's life.
So we thought _ with [B] the bullying epidemic being as [A#] big as ever, [Dm] wouldn't it be such [G#] an interesting song for us to do [F] sort of a reinterpretation of a great book.
So we [A] put that out and [D] _ [G#] we [Dm] filmed a video for it [D] and _ [E] our last three videos we've sort of had [Dm] an overarching narrative _ throughout the three songs.
And we really [G#] honed in on how [D] terrible it is to pick on [A] people, especially [D] at that young age when you're still trying to figure out who you are.
And we've heard so many people [A] say to us that that song and that video have really helped [D] get them through the darkness that [C] can be [A] high school for a lot of people.
[Bm] I think the [D] most difficult challenge in doing [E] a song about a famous [D#] [C#] classic novel is living up [D] to how great the novel [A] was.
And that was our [G] main concern going through the entire [A] process.
Well, [F#m] if [G] Stephen King heard this [D] song, would he be, oh man, this is crap.
Or would he say, [E] oh, that's a really [F#m] interesting interpretation [Fm] of my novel.
So I think that was [A] the hardest thing to get over.
[A#] How can we make this really live up to the [D] greatness of what the [G] origin [Dm] of the story was.
_ _ [E] _ [B] So, you know, [G] and we began to see so many kids with our tattoos of our lyrics and [Dm] we thought that, you know, if they're going to go to [A] the trouble to [D] _ [B] tattoo our lyrics on them permanently, [A] we need to make every line _ bulletproof.
[B] So we really [C#] went over every [A#] single phrase [A] _ [G#] with a [Dm] fine tooth comb [D] and made sure everything was [Dm] either an interesting metaphor or had some sort of clever turn of phrase or a [G] pun or an alliteration [D] because we want our every lyric to be quote [A] unquote like tattooable. _
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[F#m] _ _ [A] We were told that we were going to be on the _ [N]
Punkos Pop compilation [D] and I was [B] looking [A] through all these popular songs because [B] we had to find a new modern popular [Dm] song that would work with our band.
And I was [F#m] finding that so many [Fm] of the songs that were popular [A] lyrically was such fluff, you [Dm] know, it was like partying in the club or [A] some sort of [G] lame like breakup story.
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And then I came upon this video Maroon 5 and to my [F#] knowledge Maroon 5 was really like [F] _ poppy [G] mainstream, but I saw this [A] video for Animals and I'm like, [D] I could have written these lyrics.
They're really [A] dark and interesting [D] and the video was really _ horror movie centric.
So I [F] thought this is the [D#] one.
So we picked that [D]
[B] and it turned out to be great.
I think it's our [N] most successful YouTube video.
I think [A#] it's almost like six [C] million views [D]
and something funny about that.
A [N] couple of weeks ago we got hit up by NBC [G] in the US and I guess [A]
someone is going to perform our cover on _ [D] America's Got Talent, that show, [G] the Maroon 5 cover.
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Maybe Adam Levine will hear it.
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