Scream Of The Butterfly

RabbitHowl definitely owned it. This song is NOT about abortion, but it IS about taking innocence from a child. The girl in the song is not Truddi Chase, as RabbitHowl suggested, but it is a girl who experienced the same abuse as Truddi. This girl was molested (probably by her father if you read the last lines of the song).

"She smiles like a child with blood on her hands" doesn't even make sense in reference to abortion. She was raped as a child, and reverts back to the abuse in her adult years. When he says "she feels it die" he is referring to her soul, not her baby.

"She runs through fields of daisies; yeah it's just a shame that they eat their own babies" is NOT saying she's eating her damn baby! She was permitted to frolic amongst the daisies as a child so long as she put up with the abuse. It is sarcasm, irony, which means he's NOT being literal.

i would just like to say that i dont think acid bath was necessarily pro-life or pro-choice, they are too classy to be that overtly political, or even political at all, i think the songs they write about abortion deal more with death in general as well as the effect death has on humanity

HEY.....READ THE LYRICS AND LISTEN TO IT AGAIN, PEOPLE. THE SONG IS ABOUT ABORTION...KILLING OF THE INNOCENT....RAPING OF CHILDHOOD....THINK REAL HARD!

"WHO CARES? THE AIR IS FREE" ......"ITS JUST ASHAME THAT THEY EAT THIER OWN BABIES" .....ITS NOT THAT HARD TO FIGURE OUT....JUST KEEP ABORTION IN MIND. ACTUALLY A LOT OF THIER SONGS ARE ABOUT ABORTION. ITS FUCKED UP SHIT

OH AND BY THE WAY...THE LYRICS WRITTEN ABOVE ARE WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY OFF. MORONS. TRY THIS SITE TO GET THE TRUE LYRICS:

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Well there is stuff in this song that would imply it might be about abortion, ("yeah, it's just a shame that they eat their own babies") but I'm not certain that's what it's about. Some of it most definately is referances to Jim Morrison's lyrics. The title of this song is taken directly from "When the Music's Over" by the Doors. I think his talking about dropping acid and killing his parents is also a reference to Jim Morrison, whom often dropped acid, and spoke of killing his parents in the lyrics of "The End". There's definately a sexual tone to this song, but also obvious talk of drugs.

This song is fuckin great. especially when you read ALL of the lyrics (which I just now posted. they'll be available tomorrow). your welcome Jeril.

LSD. acid trip. this song refers to the poetics of jim morrison but is ingenius in a dax riggs way. dropping acid and killing your parents does not literally mean killing people. it means killing ideas/get born again/ break on through/forgetting what your parents taught you. scream of the butterfly is a trippy paradox in itself(butterflys obviously cannot scream). knowing more about the history of lsd and its pioneers helps understand much of this song. there is much more to the song too, ive only scratched the surface

"Hills Like White Elephants" is much more about a couple in the Lost Generation than it is about abortion. It doesn't have anything to do with this song.

Soo, I've been rereading the lyrics of this song for the last half-hour. Originally, I went with abortion--"something cold is forced inside," "she feels it die," etc. totally sounds like an abortion. But then, it doesn't fit with the rest of the song. So, as a whole, you get the picture that this girl has had a pretty shitty life. Her childhood was taken from her, so much so that Dax (or whoever wrote it) compares her to Truddi Chase. But the narrator is in the story as well, and the only thing he has to contribute about himself in the first half is "I'm getting bored."

So this guy and this chick are obviously together. He's dealing with all the horribleness of her past. Then she kills herself: "When your candle burns out, I'll resurrect you," "Surgery in the house of dissection," "When you get there will you kiss the dead for me?," "Something cold is forced inside her," "I cut myself again and again to remind myself of you," "With blood on her hands into the sun she stares," all of which are consistent with her stabbing herself. And then, with the last repetition of the chorus, he says "I met an angel with a sawed-off shotgun"--which could be her memory inspiring him to continue living a drug-filled life, or it could actually be a new woman, even more screwed up than the last, since he seemed to get bored of the last woman so quickly.

It could simply be a comment on something as trivial as relationships. When you hear hoofbeats . . .

This was the first song I heard by them, and immediately loved. I initially thought it was about abortion, and while there are enough references to make it logical conclusion, the more I listen to it the less I think abortion has anything to do with it. Abortion and drug abuse are mentioned in almost every song the have. The most telling lines to me are in the bridge " Something cold is forced inside " and "hymns of the needle freak" "her dreams are liquid blue ". These are all descriptions of heavy drug abuse. The main theme of Truddi's story is abuse; Sexual, emotional, mental and drugs. That is the main theme here with " Scream of the Butterfly " as well. Abuse. It's also worth mentioning that the title came from an old exploitation film from the 60's. Jim Morrison also mentioned this movie in one of his songs.