The connection between “Bad Things”, and All Quiet on the Western Front, is they both refer to doing “bad things” to each other but its “complicated”, because they don’t want to do bad things they want to be equal connecting All Quiet on the Western Front and the song. In the book Paul realizes when he kills someone for the first time he says “It is mad, what I do. But I must do something,”(Remarque, 216) he says this because he is being forced to kill/ do “bad things,” but he doesn’t want to. He wants to stand up for all the “bad things” going on in war, and makes an inference that the enemies are people too. Even know they appear to be enemies that doesn’t mean they had a background outside of war. Also when the song says “Im insane, but
