Potters Field

To me this song means having someone that loved you turn away after the love you gave them and what you did for them, they rejected it all.

Well, Potter's Field is actually a cemetery of unmarked graves - but the lyrics suggest the words of possibly an aborted fetus talking to its mother. On another note, I am absolutely stunned & mortified that ANYONE could not like John Bush!! I feel his voice is metal's finest, but different strokes I guess. ;)

well, the song is about abortion, and it's told from the point of view of a person who wished his mother had aborted him.

It's kind of a "look what kind of piece of shit I've become... it's all your fault because you didn't kill me before I was born"

The song is all about Judas.

The potter's field was purchased using the thirty pieces of silver that the Jewish temple gave Judas to betray Jesus. Its also where Judas either hung himself (gospel) or tripped and exploeded (Acts).

Everything else points to someone upset with the results of what a higher power did.

I dislike John Bush intensely, but this is a pretty good song.

I'm fairly certain that I read comments from the band saying that this song was about abortion.

One of my favorite songs and definitely one of Anthrax's heaviest.

I read somewhere (and this was when it came out in '93 so my memory may not be perfect) that Scott Ian said it was about a mother didn't abort her illegitamite son because of her religion. He then grew up with a mother who was too young to parent and became a serial killer or something. The song is the killer on death row telling his mom she should have aborted him.

IMO, when John Bush joined Anthrax, their sound got a millions times better!! Not just because of John's awesome metal voice, but also they redefined their sound at the time of Sound of White Noise. Worship Music with Belladonna is amazing though.

There's a place called Potter's Field in H.P. Lovecraft's "Harbert West: Reanimator", which is about a scientist obsessed with bringing life back to corpses. Potter's Field is a graveyard where Herbert West digs up one of the corpses. He manages to "reanimate" the corpse but it turns into an insane, murderous, ape-like thing. It burns down the house, carries out several killings, and is eventually put in an asylum. At the end of the final story, it is freed by another of West's zombies and abducts West, who is dragged down into a zombie netherworld.

When I read this story, I instantly thought of the line "should've let me rest in Potter's Field" and thought the song must be about that. The abortion thing makes more sense in many ways. But I can see how it could be about a zombie too. He was "told to burn" (his first act when revived), born to "save" West's career/vocation, he's a one-night nightmare who returns with retribution, and West never takes responsibility for the zombies he's created.

It is a fictional first person narritive of a pissed off Jesus Christ. You should have let him die of old age in an unknown grave in israel,the original potters field where they buried the indignate who went against the mainstream of thougt. Master's son to steer the blame of murder by convincing yourselves he died for you. He died for you. What a convienent line created by the ones that murdered him. Hook, line, sinker.. now back to collecting taxes. I love this song. I think if was Jesus. I would pissed off too.