The lyrics of " Growing Again " , which describe Violent J growing into a giant , was inspired by Bruce 's weight gain ; Bruce also say that the song reflect the feeling of being able to " rap about anything we want [ ... ] I feel we have the right for some songs to be softer and not about killing or Dark Carnival . " " The Tower " describe a war veteran and expert marksman climbing a college tower and shooting people with an arsenal of weapons , a reference to Charles Whitman 's 1966 murder spree .