The Killers - All These Things That I've Done (Official Music Video)

Mr Brightside may be their most popular song, but this is their most emotional and my personal favorite.

The song is about television host Matt Pinfield. Before The Killers were famous, Pinfield, who was a vice president of A&R at Columbia Records at the time, tried to sign the band. He was also working with the U.S. Army as part of a program that mentored wounded and/or PTSD-stricken musician soldiers returning from Iraq. After visiting veteran soldiers in Colorado City, he went to Las Vegas, where he quickly bonded with The Killers. Pinfield watched the band rehearse at drummer Ronnie Vannucci's garage and took them out to dinner. He asked if anybody wanted to give him a ride back to his hotel and Brandon Flowers offered to drive Pinfield. They wound up hitting the bar at the Gold Coast Hotel on a Tuesday night, just "talking about life", Pinfield said: I started to tell him the story about mentoring soldiers, and I was getting ready to go through a divorce. I was going through a bit of a rough time. So, he went home that night, and their old manager, Braden Merrick, calls me on the phone, and goes, 'Hey Matt, Brandon wrote a song about you. He went home last night and wrote this song.' It was 'All These Things That I've Done,' and the line 'I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier' is about the mentoring thing. In 2016, Pinfield titled his memoir "All These Things That I've Done: My Insane, Improbable Rock Life". On January 19, 2019, the band gave Pinfield a shoutout while introducing the song at the iHeartRadio ALTer Ego 2019 festival at The Forum in Inglewood, California, where Pinfield was in attendance in a wheelchair still recovering from being hit by a car a month before.

I just turned 42 and the line "I'm so much older then I can take" really speaks to me. I was in my early 20s when this song came out. I just graduated college and was living a care free life. Now I have three kids, two are teenagers. I have no idea how I got here so fast.

I think this whole album is timeless. It truly feels like it has always existed since rock began and also has just released this week.

This song has helped me come back from the brink a few times. I’ve been at the end of my rope several times, suicide hotline, doctors, medication. But in the end I kept holding on, kept fighting. Like “I’ve got soul, but I’m not a soldier” I’ve got the will to fight, but I’m not a fighter. If anyone finds this comment, just remember you can always keep moving, hold your head high and hold on. Edit: Still here! I'd forgotten about this comment! haha. Life is still tough, but now I'm sober. 2020 was a hell of a ride for me, as I'm sure it was for a great many people. But I'd like to thank you all for such a wonderful outcry of support and kindness. Sometimes I've forgotten that we're all in this life together. Be kind everyone, and hold on! Update Edit! 12/16/22: You all have been so wonderfully supportive. You've all kept me going to be honest. I kept going, I lived with my sister for 3 years and I saved every penny I could and bought my own home! Sure it's a used manufactured home, but it's mine. However, I paid cash so i didn't need a mortgage. Now I'm helping out a friend at the end of their rope, and giving them a place to stay so they aren't homeless. There's no secret sauce to my situation, I was very lucky. I was frugal and things just happen to work out. But hold on, don't give up. Life can have some twists and turns you never saw coming. Update Update! 2/27/23 Still getting a lot of positive comments, more than I'd ever thought my little comment would ever get, more than I thought it deserved. You all still continue to be the most wonderful, inspiring, and supportive people. You've all exemplified the very best we can be when we find those in the lowest of times. Life of course still throws it's curve balls, and they do hit hard. But now I'm no longer alone with my problems, and I know I'm lucky for that privilege. Stay strong, keep moving, and hold on to the ones you love, because those moments are fleeting... 3/3/23 Wow life does like a curve ball. I'm in the metro Detroit area. In the past 5 days I've gone from no power for 3 days to a furnace failure that lead to the discovery that my furnace is putting out toxic levels of carbon monoxide. The new furnace will set me back at the very least 3200. Coupled with rampant low staffing at my current job leading my emotional state being at an all time low. I feel like this song resonates more than ever, and how much positivity I've received here. I'm of course applying to other jobs. But i just once again wish to say thank you. It doesn't matter how small you think your comment may be, or think it means nothing. But it does. One comment may make a difference. I have felt alone for so long, I didn't know what healthy support looked like. Find that one shred of something that keeps you moving and hold on tight to it, It just may save your life Edit 6/23/24. I wish I had better news, but I don't. Costs have gotten insane for the house, even with a roommate and supplemental income im desperately sinking. All my savings are gone and I've got far too much credit card debt now. I've made the decision to sell it and move back in with my sister. I have been sober from alcohol for 1 year and 3 months. A combination of weed and the help of a friend I was able to get off and stay off it. I am still single. Been on a date or two last year but the stigma of living in a manufactured home in a trailer park did me no favors either. I've fallen into a deep and dark depression. I quit my job because I couldn't bring myself to go (a retail blue box furniture store) and then the shame of not being able to work for being a pathetic loser and letting depression get to me. I'm at a loss. I thought I did all the right things. But nobody seems to want me. I've never had a relationship last more than 2 months and I'm just constantly ghosted on dating apps. I know it's partially me, I am a lot and I know it. But I am so touch and affection starved it is eating away at me. I literally don't know what it even feels like to hold the hand of someone I care about, nor have I ever woke up other than alone. I can no longer watch shows or stuff with romance in it because it makes me feel so bitter, the feeling of it being dangled in front of me as a reminder of (this is what you will never have). It's to the point I no longer feel like a salvageable human anymore. I won't give my whole life story but you can put the pieces together from my lengthy diatribes lol. Thank you all again for your kind words. I come back here once and awhile, but i was too ashamed to update with bad news. Don't worry, this isn't the end. I won't do anything dumb but I'm just so tired. Tell someone you like having them around. You have no idea what it can mean to someone. This will be my final update.

I remember being a little girl and singing this in my dads van while he drove me to preschool. We’d scream ‘I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier’ and he’d air drum (he’s a great drummer) and every time I hear this I get this overwhelming surge of love for my dad. I feel like a little girl again.

"I've got soul but I'm not a soldier" makes me think of a man who wants try his best, even though he's lost in a world that demands routine and he simply can't conform

I just found The Killers in 2024 & I'm so damn glad & thankful I did!!!

If you want to watch the video in chronological order, use the cards in this order: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,0. It also might help to mute the volume. 1 - 1:12 2 - 3:51 3 - 1:43 4 - 0:31 5 - 3:18 6 - 2:25 7 - 4:22 0 - 0:00

my dad used to play this in his car when I was little, I never knew what it was called or who it was by and I didn't remember the lyrics. He died 3 years ago. Recently someone recommended this song to me and I immediately cried when I recognized it. this song never fails to make me cry since.

“If you can hold on, hold on” This song is dedicated to my grandparents who both died in the same month. It was the most painful experience I have endured. I wanted to give up multiple times. But, I pushed through. Here I am 5 years later, stronger than ever. There is nothing I can not do. I do everything for them. They are my angels. I was able to hold on, so I did.

Why have I just found this fantastic group... I'm 58, where have I been 😂

Best killers song thus far, wait... no... Somebody tol- no. When You Were Yo- no. wait. hm. Mr. Brigh- no... ah. screw it. all of them.

This was my friend Rae's favorite song. He was an alcoholic who took his own life 7 years ago. He was a talented artist, saxaphone player, and an air traffic controller. But, most of all he and I could talk endlessly about anything and we never got mad at each other. I love ya Rae. Thank you for being a "true" friend!

@3:18 it’s 2021 in Chicago, Illinois and I’m at the Aragon Ballroom watching The Killers perform this amazing song. There’s pyro and confetti going on and it’s one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Everyone in the venue is in unison to this tune and just enjoying this moment as paper confetti is outing down from the rafters.

While everyone’s lost, the battle is won……with all these things that I’ve done 🔥

Admit it or not, Hot Fuss is one of the best albums of the 2000s.

"If you can't hold on... hold on." I have been holding on for 15 years. Good song.

Greatest Christian rock band ever

“I got soul but I’m not a soldier”, one of the best lyrics of all time!