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“The Kill (Bury Me)”
Single by 30 Seconds to Mars from the album A Beautiful Lie
Released	January 24, 2006 November 3, 2006 April 30, 2007 September 24, 2007 (re-release)
Format	CD
Recorded	2004
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	3:51
Label	Immortal
Producer	Josh Abraham 30 Seconds to Mars
30 Seconds to Mars singles chronology
"Attack" (2005) "The Kill" (2005/2006) "From Yesterday" (2006)
Alternate cover
UK Release artwork
Music sample
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"The Kill" ("Bury Me") is the second single from 30 Seconds to Mars' second album, A Beautiful Lie. Jared Leto described the meaning of the song as, "It's really about a relationship with yourself. It's about confronting your fear and confronting the truth about who you are." He has also said it is about "confrontation as a crossroads" — coming face-to-face with who you really are.^[1]

In September 2007, "The Kill" was remade, and it was released as "The Kill" ("Rebirth") in the UK. It is currently available as a CD with an A Beautiful Lie poster and two stickers, and a special limited edition 7" vinyl version. The song was used as one of the themes of The Invisible, and a live music video is included on the DVD releases, as well as the song being part of the soundtrack.

The song was released for the videogame Rock Band as DLC along with "Attack" for both Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.^[2]

Contents 1 Music video 2 Track listing 3 Chart positions 4 Awards 5 In popular culture 6 External links 7 References

[edit] Music video

Being loosely based on the American film The Shining (1980), several scenes are versions from the movie, such as when Shannon Leto enters Room 6277 and encounters the woman in the bathroom, when Matt Wachter being served drinks at the bar by an apparition, when Tomo Miličević is sitting on a bed receiving oral sex from another man dressed in a bear costume, and when both films culminate in an elegant ballroom.

As for the cinematography, Jared Leto has clearly adopted the split screen visual from working with Darren Aronofsky in Requiem for a Dream (2001).

The number 6277 is used for the room number because it spells out "Mars" on a telephone keypad. The number also makes an appearance in the video for "From Yesterday".

The music video was selected as the second best video of 2006, falling short only to "Savin' Me" by Nickelback.^{[citation needed]} And it was voted the 2nd greatest of the 21st century on Scuzz TV.^{[citation needed]}

At 1:29, the papers that Jared Leto has been typing are briefly made visible and the words on them appear to read, over and over, "This is who I really am." This is another allusion to The Shining, in which Jack Nicholson's character types up pages and pages of the same line, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy", over and over in the same sense.

When the press release info for "The Kill" video was released, Jared stated that the video was directed by an albino Danish man named Bartholomew Cubbins. This was intended as a joke as Cubbins is the main character of the Dr. Seuss book The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, however airings of the video on music channels still list Cubbins as the director. In actuality, Jared himself is the director.

The hotel scenes in the video were filmed at The Carlu in Toronto, Ontario.^[3]

Plot

The music video features the band exploring a hotel which they are care-taking. At the start, Jared Leto states that they have the hotel all to themselves for three days; although, later on, after the first chorus, it comes on the screen saying "One Week Later", before showing the pages saying "This is who I really am". In the extended version of the video the other band members complain that they have been at the hotel longer than expected and have canceled shows because of Jared's peculiar behavior, explaining the discrepancy.

A letter from the hotel owner tells the band to "Enjoy your stay and please stay out of Room 6277." The band does not heed the warning and opens Room 6277. Following the opening of the door, each band member begins to experience the effects of the room. Each member experiences the effects differently, but one thing remains constant for each individual — they encounter a tuxedoed version of themselves. Several other apparitions then take up residence in the hotel, dispelling the promise Jared made in the beginning of the video that the band will have the hotel all to themselves and that "there's not gonna be a single fucking soul". The video reaches its climax when the tuxedoed bandmates are shown performing the song in the hotel's ballroom in front of an elegantly-dressed crowd dancing with themselves.

[edit] Track listing

Standard

1. "The Kill" - 3:52
2. "Attack" (Live at CGBG, July 2006) - 4:06
3. "The Kill" (Acoustic, Live on VH1) - 3:48

UK Release

1. "The Kill" - 3:52
2. "The Kill" (Acoustic, Live on VH1) - 3:48

UK Re-Release

1. "The Kill" - 3:52
2. "Was It a Dream?" (iTunes Live Session) - 3:46

[edit] Chart positions

• The song broke a record on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. Along with The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus song "Face Down", "The Kill" spent 52 weeks on the chart.
• This song was #67 on MTV Asia's list of Top 100 Hits of 2007.^[4]In 2007 on MTV TRL Mexico it was # 1 and also on Hit List Portugal it was too.
• 30 Seconds to Mars re-recorded the song, featuring the brazilian singer Pitty, as a single released only in Brazil.

Year	Chart	Peak position
2006	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	65
	U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks	14
	U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks	3
	U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs	53
	Billboard European Hot 100 Singles	80
	U.S. Billboard 2006 Year-End Chart: Hot Modern Rock Songs[5]	3
	U.K. Singles Chart	64
	World Modern Rock Top 30 Singles	22
2007	U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Recurrent Airplay[6]	13
	U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks[7]	25
	U.S. Billboard Hot Singles Recurrents[8]	17
	U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream[9]	30
	Brazil Hot 100	17
	Chile Singles Chart	6
	U.K. Singles Chart (The Kill (Rebirth))	28
	UK Singles Chart (Re-release[citation needed])	24[citation needed]
	Portugal Singles Chart	16
2008	Brazil Hot 100 (30STM featuring Pitty version)	25

[edit] Awards

• Won "Best Single" at the Kerrang! Awards 2007.
• On August 31, 2006, the band won the MTV2 Award for "The Kill" at the MTV Video Music Awards, one of their two nominations. The second nomination was for best rock video; however, they lost to AFI's "Miss Murder".
• "The Kill" was awarded Best Video of the Year and Best Rock Video at the MTV Australia Video Music Awards (AVMAs).
• Won The Rock Out! Award at the 2007 MTV EMA's (Europe Music Awards).

[edit] In popular culture

• "The Kill" was featured in the January 21, 2007 Without a Trace episode, "Primed".
• During the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, "The Kill" was played as the background music of the nomination screen for the film 300, which was nominated for the Best Movie award.
• "The Kill" was featured in the October 25, 2007 Hollyoaks episode.
• In the video game Rock Band, the song is available for play as a downloadable song.

[edit] External links

• Music video stream provided by Virgin. ^[10]
• thirtysecondstomars Official The Kill/Attack music player.

[edit] References

v • d • e 30 Seconds to Mars Jared Leto • Shannon Leto • Tomo Milisevits • Tim Kelleher (temporary bassist) Matt Wachter • Solon Bixer • Kevin Drake Studio albums 30 Seconds to Mars • A Beautiful Lie • Untitled third 30 Seconds to Mars album Singles "Capricorn (A Brand New Name)" • "Edge of the Earth" • "Attack" • "The Kill" • "From Yesterday" • "A Beautiful Lie" • "The Story" Related Discography • Virgin Records • Immortal Records