All These Things That I've Done

"All These Things That I've Done"
Single by the Killers
from the album Hot Fuss
B-side	"Andy, You're a Star" "Why Don't You Find Out for Yourself"
Released	August 30, 2004 (2004-08-30)
Studio	The Hearse, Berkeley, California
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	5:01 (album version) 3:53 (radio and single edit)
Label	Island Lizard King
Songwriter(s)	Brandon Flowers
Producer(s)	The Killers Jeff Saltzman
The Killers singles chronology
"Somebody Told Me" (2004) "All These Things That I've Done" (2004) "Smile Like You Mean It" (2005)
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"All These Things That I've Done" is a song by American rock band the Killers. The song was released as the third single from the band's debut studio album, Hot Fuss (2004), on August 30, 2004. It was written by frontman Brandon Flowers and features gospel choir The Sweet Inspirations. The song is about television host Matt Pinfield, and his work with the US Army, as part of a program that mentored wounded/PTSD-stricken soldiers returning from Iraq.^[1]

"All These Things That I've Done" was released as the third single from Hot Fuss in 2004 in the United Kingdom and as the fourth single in the United States and Australia in 2005, peaking at number 74 on the US Billboard Hot 100, number 42 on the Australian ARIA Charts and number 18 on the UK Singles Chart.^{[2][better source needed]} The song features the central lyric of "You gotta help me out", and an extended refrain of "I got soul, but I'm not a soldier".