Music Video
The video of "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums" is an animated video, which deals with a political topic.
The video begins with the classic peace symbol shaking and falling apart, and eventually falling from view. An oil derrick starts to turn, as blood slowly drips down the screen. In the next scene, a young boy climbing down from a tree meets a man who appears to be U.S. President George W. Bush riding a horse. The horse excretes a small Television, and trots away. The boy sits down and watches the TV, and slowly turns into a sheep, as a plane flies behind and drops bombs in the background. Next, Bush walks into a classroom, carrying a small television. He places it down on the teacher's desk, and destroys the student's books. The video continues on in this manner until halfway through, when we see Bush sailing on a sea of blood. He enters a city, waits for a moment, and then appears in a tank. As he progresses through the city, televisions fall out of windows, forming a sort of road for Bush.
He then begins to march through the area, with a brigade of sheep following him. Televisions begin to form a high-walled corridor. As the sheep continue to march, one turns around, stands up, and begins to climb the buildings. As the sheep nears the top, another sheep stands up and marks him with an 'S' sign, which may indicate the lyric "Sedition" used in the song. An arm with a Republican elephant marked on it appears from the clouds, picks up the branded sheep, and throws him into a meat grinder. The animal emerges as a designer coat, and is then worn by a celebrity. In the next scene, two sheep stand up, and begin to kick down the television wall. These two sheep are then marked with the 'S' sign, and are impaled by two flags, marked 'Traitor'. The rest of the brigade follow Bush to a cliff, where he directs them over the edge into a blazing fire. George W. Bush's face then appears, with his eyes in a slow, hypnotizing fashion, apparently attempting to bring the viewer 'under his control'.
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