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"All These Things That I've Done"
Song

"All These Things That I've Done" is a song performed by The Killers, and written by lead vocalist Brandon Flowers. The song appears on their debut album Hot Fuss. It was released as the third single in 2005 in the United Kingdom and as the fourth single in the United States. It features an extended refrain of "I got soul, but I'm not a soldier", a phrase now associated with the song. The single peaked at 74 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at 18 in the UK Singles Chart. It was the only song the band performed at Live 8.

The song was featured in the closing credits of the 2005 film The Matador, as well as the 2007 movie Southland Tales as a crucial part of the storyline in which Pilot Abilene (played by Justin Timberlake) lip-synchs it. It was also mentioned in the graphic novel preceding the film, Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga. It also played over the opening of the pilot of the television series Jericho. It is heard at the end of the 2008 Ben Stein film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.

The song plays in virtually its entirety over the first segment of the first episode of the 2008 PBS documentary series Carrier. Nike used the song in a commercial for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Following this Nike ad, the song rose as high as #38 on iTunes. It is played at the Bell Centre in Montreal before every Montreal Canadiens home game.

Track listings

UK 7"
  1. "All These Things That I've Done" (Flowers)
  2. "Andy, You're a Star (Zane Lowe Radio 1 Session)" (Flowers)
UK CD
  1. "All These Things That I've Done"
  2. "All These Things That I've Done (Radio Edit)"
  3. "Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself? (Zane Lowe Radio 1 Session)" (Morrissey/Alain Whyte)
  4. "All These Things That I've Done (Video)"
European CD
  1. "All These Things That I've Done (Radio Edit)"
  2. "All These Things That I've Done"
Australian/European Maxi CD
  1. "All These Things That I've Done (Radio Edit)"
  2. "All These Things That I've Done"
  3. "Mr. Brightside (The Lindbergh Palace Club Remix)" (Flowers/Keuning)
  4. "All These Things That I've Done (Video)"

Music video

Like "Mr. Brightside", the song features two videos. The earlier version, which features The Killers singing while walking down Brick Lane in London accompanied by a crowd. The video also featured shots of the audience who attended The Killers concert at the London Astoria on July 8 2004. The later version, directed by Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn, features a surreal, dream-like sequence where the Killers, dressed as cowboys, are attacked by scantily-clad female warriors armed with boomerangs. The story in the video is told out of order, but can be put in its order by the numbers displayed in the video. The latter video was influenced by the films of Russ Meyer, particularly the use of aggressive, large-breasted female characters.

A video by the Invisible Children movement also made a video featuring the song following a nationwide protest against the mass abduction and forced recruiting of children into a terrorist military group in northern Uganda. In that video, the words "I got soul, but I'm not a soldier" are used to refer to African children forced to fight and kill others.[1]

Charts

Chart (2005) Peak
position
UK Singles Chart 18
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 74
New Zealand Singles Chart 36
Australian ARIA Charts 42
Irish Singles Chart 46
US Modern Rock 10
US Billboard Pop 100 58
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