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Carcass Lyrics
Someones in cold storage
seeking heinz main-courses
craving for a raw love
He'll hide you from the cleaver
he'll hang with you forever
longing for a fresh meat
By hook or by crook
you'll be 1st in his book
for an impaled affair
By hook or by crook
you'll be last in his book
of flesh oh so rare
Chorus:
Be a carcass-Be a dead pork
be limblessly in love
Be a carcrash(carcass)-Be a dead pork
be limblessly in love
Someones left in cold storage
thawed in heinz main-courses
carving for a new tin
He got you with the cleaver
he hung you up forever
anticipating new skin
Out of the frying pan
and into the fire
58th variety
Out of the frying pan
and into the fire
mother had her son for tea
Chorus
In love with your stumps (the pain)
In love with the bleeding
In love with the pain
that you once felt (now feel)
as you became a carcass (,we became a carcass)
(Carcass-you became a carcass)
carcass...carcass...carcrash
(In love with the stumps
In love with the bleeding
In love with the pain
that you now feel
as you became a carcass
-we became a carcass-
carcass
you became a carcass
Carcass
Get him in... ...but don't whine you swine)
seeking heinz main-courses
craving for a raw love
He'll hide you from the cleaver
he'll hang with you forever
longing for a fresh meat
By hook or by crook
you'll be 1st in his book
for an impaled affair
By hook or by crook
you'll be last in his book
of flesh oh so rare
Be a carcass-Be a dead pork
be limblessly in love
Be a carcrash(carcass)-Be a dead pork
be limblessly in love
thawed in heinz main-courses
carving for a new tin
He got you with the cleaver
he hung you up forever
anticipating new skin
and into the fire
58th variety
and into the fire
mother had her son for tea
In love with the bleeding
In love with the pain
that you once felt (now feel)
as you became a carcass (,we became a carcass)
(Carcass-you became a carcass)
carcass...carcass...carcrash
In love with the bleeding
In love with the pain
that you now feel
as you became a carcass
-we became a carcass-
carcass
you became a carcass
Carcass
Get him in... ...but don't whine you swine)
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A carcass is a dead body. Siouxsie said in an interview way back that the song was a weird little story about a butcher's assistant who can't get girls, so he falls in love with a big slab of meat hanging in the backroom, and he wants to be more like the thing he loves, so he chops off his arms and legs. Yes, Siouxsie is friggin' awesome, kids.
what\'s a carcass?
hee hao!
And this is why we love Siouxsie And The Banshees, everyone...
I heard this was written about a new story about a butcher and his love for raw meat.
SIOUXSIE: "It's a love song really. You read about how love's supposed to be, but in the papers you see all these other things that people do to get their certain kicks. More people seem to have those sort of kicks than meeting the girl next door. It's an angle of looking at things and they are there - it's not purely fictional." Source: Melody Maker 09/12/78.
So yes, as others have said it is about certain people in society who find love in unconventional ways.
only Wayne Gacy or Jeffrey Dahmer would see the beauty in this tale