Allow me to help you out as to what this song is about. In the CD there is a special feature containing notes about each song. This particular one is about a trip he (Neil Fallon) took when he was very young to Salem, Massachussets (sp?). He saw a lady dressed up in a witch costume who ran some sort of witch themed shop and creeped him out. Oh, and there is no such place as Hazel, California he thought it was a cool rhyme.
@Cape Kid I think some of us have superstitions that linger despite laughing them off as rational adults should, and that's why he wrote this song. The old lady played her role too well, and the impression captured his imagination and integrated in his personal mythos such that anytime he has unexpected bad luck he has lurking suspicions that it's due to the witch's curse. Maybe I'm reading too much of myself in it; I'd like to hear Fallon's thoughts on this interpretation; but it explains why folk tales live on.
@Cape Kid I think some of us have superstitions that linger despite laughing them off as rational adults should, and that's why he wrote this song. The old lady played her role too well, and the impression captured his imagination and integrated in his personal mythos such that anytime he has unexpected bad luck he has lurking suspicions that it's due to the witch's curse. Maybe I'm reading too much of myself in it; I'd like to hear Fallon's thoughts on this interpretation; but it explains why folk tales live on.
Allow me to help you out as to what this song is about. In the CD there is a special feature containing notes about each song. This particular one is about a trip he (Neil Fallon) took when he was very young to Salem, Massachussets (sp?). He saw a lady dressed up in a witch costume who ran some sort of witch themed shop and creeped him out. Oh, and there is no such place as Hazel, California he thought it was a cool rhyme.
@Cape Kid I think some of us have superstitions that linger despite laughing them off as rational adults should, and that's why he wrote this song. The old lady played her role too well, and the impression captured his imagination and integrated in his personal mythos such that anytime he has unexpected bad luck he has lurking suspicions that it's due to the witch's curse. Maybe I'm reading too much of myself in it; I'd like to hear Fallon's thoughts on this interpretation; but it explains why folk tales live on.
@Cape Kid I think some of us have superstitions that linger despite laughing them off as rational adults should, and that's why he wrote this song. The old lady played her role too well, and the impression captured his imagination and integrated in his personal mythos such that anytime he has unexpected bad luck he has lurking suspicions that it's due to the witch's curse. Maybe I'm reading too much of myself in it; I'd like to hear Fallon's thoughts on this interpretation; but it explains why folk tales live on.