4 P.M.

I love this song. Seems to be about religious zealots and their blood-thirsty ways that they "justify" by deciding they're doing God's work.

Not sure what the whore made up in blue is about though, and wonder whether the song might have been inspired by some more specific incident.

Rob.

Awesome song, so evil. Seems like it's from the point of view of a serial killer maybe. A serial killer who writes awesome music. At the same time I imagine that it's metaphor-ish... like you might write a song like this if you were feeling disproportionately guilty about something.

I really appreciate the way some of their songs sound like they've been derived from a story somewhere instead of the usual stuff about songwriter's lives. Not that I don't like the latter, but something different once in a while is nice.

The Clouds were a truly under-appreciated band... never went mainstream, though their first album went gold. It's a demonstration of how the music industry is designed to profit big labels rather than promote what the public actually likes.

During a performance of 4PM on Live at Double J, Jodi Phillis explained that the song was based on a novel by Davis Grubb, called The Night Of The Hunter.

There's also a movie of the same name, based on the novel by Davis Grubb, starring Robert Mitchum.

The short version:

It's about a serial killer who masquerades as a preacher.

While in prison, he meets a man who is to be executed for killing a man while committing a bank robbery. The man doesn't reveal where the money from the bank robbery was hidden, but reveals that his children know the location of the money.

So, with the promise of the money, the preacher travels to the town where the executed man's wife and children still live, and he endeavours to get them to reveal where the money is.

The movie is excellent and the book is apparently very good as well.

people listen to this shit?