Barbarism Begins at Home: a scathing critique

So, I was wasting time as usual, doing some knitting while I should have been working on homework, but regardless.. I put my music on shuffle, skipped like half of the songs that came up until Jenny Was a Friend of Mine by the Killers came on. I love that song. It's quite nice and it's also cool that it's about murder. It is from the point of view of someone who has committed a murder yet denies that he could have done it because the victim was his friend. You can take a listen here, as well as watch Flowers do some nice little gestures that relate to the lyrics as he performs the song. The song is known for its bass line, which also happens to be sort of copied from the song Barbarism Begins at Home by the Smiths, which, in my humble (read: not so humble, probably) opinion, pales in comparison to Jenny Was a Friend of Mine. First off, I think Barbarism Begins at Home is a particularly boring and uninspiring regarding the lyrics. It doesn't really have too much to say, as far as I see it. However, Jenny Was a Friend of Mine has a bit of a narrative to it regarding the events of the murder and the murderer's subsequent arrest and interrogation. Cool, right? If you're me, at least. Secondly, going together with the whole boring and uninspiring lyrics thing, Barbarism Begins at Home is like 6 minutes too long. It's so boring. So so boring. Regardless, I did decide to listen to it again (I listened to it in the past once or twice) which... well, no opinions changed. Sometimes I do get in the odd mood to listen to a song that I don't even like that much, such as... any number of the Smashing Pumpkins songs that I know (Bullet with Butterfly Wings, which is also a weird one, 1979, Disarm, Today, etc) and... that's all I can think of for right now. 
In any case, I think the Killers took an aspect from the Smiths' song Barbarism Begins at Home and turned it into part of something much more impressive. Jenny Was a Friend of Mine is quite a nice song. Flowers really conveys the emotion that the narrator in the song is feeling regarding the murder he committed. There is no such thing in Barbarism Begins at Home. Morrissey sounds sort of... drugged or half asleep or something. There's nothing interesting in the way he sings the song or in anything else about the song. Also, in Jenny Was a Friend of Mine, the bass line is a lot more defined and there's also some cool synths in that song too.

Songs about murder though. I really need some more of those in my life along the lines of Jenny Was a Friend of Mine. I wish the Killers would write some more songs about murder and such.