2015Released
3:46

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Tragedies like the shooting of Trayvon Martin and the police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner were the inspiration for this track. "I look at this little guy here," bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz told Billboard magazine, indicating his 7-year-old son Bronx. "There's a hard dialogue to be had when unarmed teenagers are being killed in a country we consider to be a bastion of freedom. What is the world going to be for him?"

Novocaine is a local anesthetic drug also known as procaine. It was created by the German scientist Alfred Einhorn in 1905 and was the first man-made painkiller that could be taken as a shot. It is used primarily today to reduce the pain of intramuscular injection of penicillin, and also by some dentists.

Pete Wentz told UK newspaper The Sun: "That song was written around the time of Trayvon Martin's murder, which was pre-Ferguson, but similar. I get angry when I look at those images, but I don't really know what to do and I just know we had to have some kind of dialogue. And so came that song." "Sometimes you get so frustrated and angry and filled with rage that you just want to be number and that is the song. Sometimes you need an outlet is something to scream at and rage on. That is what that song is for us."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Novocaine.
DKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
136BPM

Album

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Released By

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Island Records
© 2015 Island Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
℗ 2015 Island Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

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