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This article is about the song. For the tour, see Rock Is Dead (tour).

"Rock Is Dead"

"Rock Is Dead" is the third single of the third album Mechanical Animals. The line, "Amphetamines for boys, crucifixes for ladies" implies that society is being dumbed-down and controlled by drugs and religion and that rock music is dying from censorship.

Appearances

Albums

• Mechanical Animals
• Lest We Forget (The Best Of)

Singles

• "Rock Is Dead"

Versions

• "Rock Is Dead" — Appears on Mechanical Animals.
• "Rock Is Dead" (Edit) — Appears on The Matrix soundtrack and music video.

Music video

The music video, directed by Samuel Bayer, features a basic performance from the band, intertwined with scenes from the film The Matrix, to which soundtrack "Rock Is Dead" was included on.

Track listing

UK, Pt. 1

1. "Rock Is Dead" – 3:10
2. "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me) (Absinth Makes The Heart Grow Fonder) – 5:29
3. "I Can't See Why" (Performed by Baxter) – 4:50

Germany/Korea/UK, Pt. 2

1. "Rock Is Dead" (Album Version) – 3:10
2. "Man That You Fear" (Acoustic Requiem For Antichrist Superstar) – 5:21
3. "Television" (Radio Edit) (Performed by Baxter) – 3:09

Picture Disc

1. "Rock Is Dead" – 3:10
2. "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me) (Absinth Makes The Heart Grow Fonder) – 5:29

Promotional, Germany

1. "Rock Is Dead" – 3:12

Promotional, UK

1. "Rock Is Dead" – 3:10
2. "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)" Absinth Makes the Heart Grow Fonder – 5:29
3. "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)" Every Day – 5:22

Promotional, Pt. 1, US

1. "Rock Is Dead" (Clean Radio Edit) – 3:10

Promotional, Pt. 2, US

1. "Rock Is Dead" (Clean Version) – 3:10
2. "Rock Is Dead" (Album Version) – 3:10

Vinyl

1. "Rock Is Dead" – 3:10
2. "Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes" – 3:59

Lyrics

    All simple monkeys with alien babies
    Amphetamines for boys
    Crucifixes for ladies
    Sampled and soulless
    Worldwide and real webbed
    You sell all the living
    For more safer dead
    
    Anything to belong
    
    Rock is deader than dead
    Shock is all in your head
    Your sex and your dope is all that we're fed
    So fuck all your protests and
    Put them to bed
    
    God is in the TV
    
    1,000 mothers are praying for it
    We're so full of hope
    And so full of shit
    Build a new god
    To medicate and to ape
    Sell us ersatz
    Dressed up and real fake
    
    Anything to belong
    
    Rock is deader than dead
    
    Rock is deader than dead
    Shock is all in your head
    Your sex and your dope is all that we're fed
    So fuck all your protests and
    Put them to bed
    
    God is in the TV

Trivia

• The song was featured on the film soundtrack of The Matrix.