I don't completely know what the song is about, and I don't remember the Storefront Hitchcock intro. But, I always assumed this song was sung from the perspective of somebody who has just died.
"Did something happen? The sky just blackened."
Narrator is stunned to find he can no longer remember his life, after a recent event where the sky blackened.
"Now there's a butterfly on my face"
Butterfly is a symbol of death. Also, butterflies are matured maggots. Also, just having any kind of insect on your face suggests death.
"And I'm a number on a drawer"
Bodies in a morgue are stored in numbered drawers.
"Hang up your net, child..."
Admittedly, this is pretty ambiguous in the context of my interpretation. Perhaps the narrator is speaking to his surviving children. The "net" may refer to a butterfly net.
"No, I don't remember falling..."
Narrator describes his own death, in fairly literal terms.
I don't completely know what the song is about, and I don't remember the Storefront Hitchcock intro. But, I always assumed this song was sung from the perspective of somebody who has just died.
"Did something happen? The sky just blackened."
Narrator is stunned to find he can no longer remember his life, after a recent event where the sky blackened.
"Now there's a butterfly on my face"
Butterfly is a symbol of death. Also, butterflies are matured maggots. Also, just having any kind of insect on your face suggests death.
"And I'm a number on a drawer"
Bodies in a morgue are stored in numbered drawers.
"Hang up your net, child..."
Admittedly, this is pretty ambiguous in the context of my interpretation. Perhaps the narrator is speaking to his surviving children. The "net" may refer to a butterfly net.
"No, I don't remember falling..."
Narrator describes his own death, in fairly literal terms.