This is about the Columbine shootings in America through the eyes of the killers. they're saying that even though they get picked on by the jocks they will have the last laugh because they end up killing everyone. "So you can try to tear me down, beat me to the ground, I will see you screaming," they are saying how they just snapped and killed everyone. Lead singer Jon Davis said - "It's a song about people who are constantly ridiculed and the damage it can cause"
Evanescence covered this song on their live album Anywhere But Home, which triggered a lawsuit against Wal-Mart, who sold the disc without a parental advisory sticker despite the expletives in the lyrics of this song. According to the 2004 lawsuit, Melanie Skeens of Brownsville, Maryland bought the album for their 12-year-old daughter and were shocked when they played it in their car while driving home. The suit asked for $74,500 for each person who bought the CD in a Maryland Wal-Mart.
The guy getting bullied in the video is Aaron Paul, who plays Jesse Pinkman on the AMC television series Breaking Bad.
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