Exodus Songs - Class Dismissed (A Hate Primer) Lyrics

Exodus - Class Dismissed (A Hate Primer)

Psychedelic Pop, Neo-Psychedelia,
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Album: Exhibit B: The Human Condition
Released: 2010

Class Dismissed (A Hate Primer) Lyrics

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This song tells the story of the Virginia Tech massacre on April 16, 2007, where 32 people were killed. The slaughter was the deadliest shooting incident by a single gunman in US history and this song recounts the tragedy through the eyes of the perpetrator Seung-Hui Cho. Exodus stopped playing the tune live after the Sandy Hook shooting.

Other songs inspired by the Virginia Tech massacre include:

"Triple Mass" by Flipper
"Without You" by The Feeling
"Singing Man" by The Roots

On August 24, 2014 James Evans, a 31-year-old Exodus fan posted lyrics to the song on Facebook

Student bodies lying dead in the halls
A blood splattered treatise of hate
Class dismissed is my hypothesis, gun fire ends in debate

Multiple agencies received calls concerned about the post, resulting in Evans' arrest as, "he threatened to kill students and or staff at school." Evans was placed in the Muhlenberg County Detention Center before being released eight days later.