The Childcatcher Lyrics
you gave me shoes and pretty clothes, and i gave you what i had between my legs
Just a rite of passage, you held me down and said
"I'm gonna be your right of passage, so boy you better spread, spread em"
when i chased you with a burning cross, my mother she wanted you dead
"well i've got no time for victims and i don't think it was all that bad
and if you can't run to save yourself well then you deserve to be had
this is the age of constipation, this is the age of martyrdom
I think you even enjoyed it, I think I even saw you come"
this song really made me sit up straight, for once. actually, i believe this song was what ignited my love for mister wolf.
He was 15, and a guy took advantage of him. How....creepy and interesting all at the same time. I
oops...pressed enter too soon. Anyways. I like the part where he does the voice of the childcatcher...uber freaky
it sad how much i love this song, but it may in fact be a true incident that patrick wolf experienced. it may be figurative, but it still is full of intense emotion that you couldnt even judge it.
its a great song, but the lyrics are scary. if it was me i could never sing about it like he does.
I thought it was allegorical, and am bemused to see no-one else does. Surrendering sexual innocence...enduring puberty. Inevitable, intensive change.
The only things Patrick has really said in interviews about this song is that "It was at a time when i was a child and was having a relationship with a person who was still emotionally a child"
I'm not sure it's autobiographical in the way most people seem to think it is...
/\Sure it is. "A person who is STILL emotionally a child" is an adult. So it's about rape. Statutory rape. The lyrics and your quote match.
Quote from an interview: What about "The Childcatcher" - a song that has lines like "you gave me shoes and pretty clothes and I gave you what I had between my legs"? There are surely elements of abuse in there.
"Yeah - it was a certain relationship, I was 15 at the time but I was still a child. It wasn't like I was 6-years-old, I was 15. I was still mentally a child and the person knew I was still mentally a child. It's hard to communicate at the time because it's like a complicated thing, but maybe put it into the context of a child being eight-years-old or seven-years-old; it was an easy way of communicating what was actually happening. But then there's also the other side that five years later, like [when I was] 19 I wrote the second part where it comes in with the voice of the person who did the abuse, and it turns out 'Oh come on, you know, it wasn't so much an abuse, maybe you just weren't ready for it. Maybe you enjoyed it?'"
Anyway, I love this song. It's amazing how much passion he sings with. I like to listen to this song with headphones on to cancel anything out, as it's one of those songs where you keep discovering new things you didn't realise.
Where did you find that from I can't find that interview anywhere?
Where did you find that from I can't find that interview anywhere?
This song makes me mentally sick, and I love it.