

The track has also earned over 889 million plays on Spotify as of press time. “ Chop Suey!” has long since established itself as System Of A Down‘s defining song, with it’s official music video having racked up over 1.2 billion views on YouTube since being uploaded in 2009. Why have you forsaken me?’ It’s wild… The context, it doesn’t really make sense to what’s going on, it’s rad.”īoth Rubin and Rogan then proceeded to watch the music video for the song, with Rubin notably nodding his head the entire time. “It’s the part, ‘Father, into your hands. When asked by Rogan what part it was, Rubin paused before offering: He opened it, first phrase he sees: that’s what’s in the song, and it’s a highpoint in the song. So I said, ‘Ok, pick a book off the wall.’ He picked a book randomly off the wall, I said ‘open it to any page tell me the first phrase you see.’ You know that song? It has this big bridge section in it where Serj, lyric writer-the singer-didn’t have words for this one part of the song.Īnd we’re sitting in the library in my old house and he said ‘I don’t have words for this’ and we were finishing and it’s like, ok. And they’re happening, often right when you need them… This System Of A Down song called ‘ Chop Suey!‘… I think.


“My experience is, when you are open and looking for these clues in the world, they’re happening all the time.
