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Whatever. It’s a song. I like it. School shootings happened long before this song came out. Why don’t people just blame video games anymore? That was pretty convenient.

I agree. I really enjoyed analyzing “Pumped Up Kicks” the first time I heard it. Does it say in the song the Bobby is poor though? I know the “other kids” have the fancy shoes, but I just thought that Bobby was commenting on how normal the other kids were compared to his hellacious life. Now their lives will not be normal when Bobby is done. I thought it was amazing how the writer summed up his father's potential murder: “Dinner's in the kitchen and it's packed in ice.” Revenge is best served cold. As far as the innocent tune goes, Bobby's innocence was taken from him at an early age and now he is suffering mentally. The tune definitely suggests the psychological abyss that Bobby has fallen into. Do songs make kids murder? I don't know. Bugs Bunny never made me try to tie a shotgun into a bow, and Cinderella never made me try to turn a pumpkin into a coach.