IGGY POP “Search and Destroy”
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Lyrics
I'm a street walking cheetah
with a hide full of napalm
I'm a runaway son of the
nuclear A-bomb
I am a world's forgotten boy
The one who searches and
destroys
Honey gotta help me please
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby detonates for me
Look out honey, 'cause I'm using
technology !
Ain't got time to make no apology
Soul radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a fire fight
Honey gotta strike me blind
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby penetrates my mind
And I'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin'
to destroy
And honey I'm the world's
forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin'
to destroy
Forgotten boy, forgotten boy
Forgotten boy said
hey forgotten boy
IGGY POP biography
After the Stooges fell apart in the 1970’s
Iggy Pop went to create many solo
albums. In 1967 Iggy returned to Ann
Arbor and renamed himself Iggy Pop.
Pop’s riotous antics on stage included
screaming, diving into broken glass, and
smearing his body with raw meat. His
music is considered to be death in the
atomic age. Some songs included
“Gimme Danger” and “Search and
Destroy”.
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Napalm
“ Love the smell of napalm in the
morning…The smell, you know that
gasoline smell…Smells like, victory” –
Kilgore to Willard- Apocalypse Now
Strike me Blind
This a reference to the flash grenades the
US and Vietcong used during the
Vietnam war.
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Literary Terms
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I’m a street walking cheetah- metaphor
Dead of night- symbolism
Soul Radiation- symbolism
Searchin’ to destroy- repitition
Forgotten boy- repitition
Soul Radiation
• Soul radiation is the referring to when
your hope and prayers help you get
through a tough time.
Dead of Night
• This is referring to a time when things are
rough, going wrong, and are not going
for your favor.
Works Cited
Coppola, Francis Ford, dir. Apocalypse
Now. Francis Ford Coppola. United
Artists, 1979. Film.
"Iggy Pop." Biography Resource Center.
Gale, 8 Feb. 2008. Web. 13 May 2010.
The Vietnam War: Weapons of War. San
Diego: Lucent Books, 2001. Print.
American
War Library.