the original version ends with johnny rotten haranguing the listener to "be a man / kill a man / be someone / kill someone / be a man / kill yourself!" as the music abruptly stops. of this version of the song, lester bangs wrote, "it's one of the most frightening things i've ever heard. you wonder exactly what you might be affirming by listening to this over and over again. on one level johnny rotten/lydon is an insect buzzing atop the massed ruins of a civilization leveled by itself, which i suppose justifies him right there, on another level he's just another trafficker in cheap nihilism with all that it includes—cheap racism, sexism, etc. i'm still not comfortable with 'bodies.' but then i never was, which may be the point. but then i wonder if he is. after which i cease to wonder at anything beyond the power of this music."