| Emilie Autumn – Scavenger Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This is the story of the seven gangs in Victorian England working for anatomists to supply bodies because of the lack of cadavers. This job was called being a Resurrectionists. They stole bodies indiscriminately, "from the cradle.... from the grave" These gangs, if payed enough would murder the occasional person when bodies were not available, "i'm not adverse to kill." Stealing jewelry from the dead or even necrophilia was considered a 'job perk,' "It isn't your diamonds that I'm after But I'll take 'em..........It isn't your kisses that I'm here for But I'll take 'em" Once these activities became well known people when to great lengths to keep their dead safe from reinforced caskets to having huge crypts with guards. But these Resurrectionists still found bodies, " There's always one door that you forget to lock And I will be waiting..." |
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