I think it is about someone who loves, but feels he is forbidden to do so. He cannot express and live this love, he keeps it bottled up, and it owns him like he tries to own his control over it. He has lived in this manner for too long, so his heart has grown cold, and all he can think of is to keep control, like you keep a thing. That's the terms in which he thinks: Keeping, and ownership. This way of thinking and his obsession with his feeling of guilt bot have perverted his love, and his urge which once was an expression of the will to live has thus become a will to own. He watches the girl from afar, but wants to own, to steal her heart. His sensuality has already been deadened ("with these eyes I cannot see"), and his love has turned into poison. Then, he cannot longer supress his urge, and his will to own makes him kill her and eat her heart to replace his, which has become cold. I think on another level it's about how the shackles of a morally dogmatic and guilt-ridden society can turn individuals into emotionally crippled ghouls who cannot feel pleasure without pain and guilt, and thus will only be able to feed their lust off the grossest sensations when they deem themselves unwatched, while ignoring or neglecting their deeper inner needs in their everyday public life. The Virgin Prunes members felt stifled by their parochial environment, so they invented their 'Lypton Village' fantasy world, which was kind of a reclusive parallel universe, but at the same time they kept their interest in other people, like the rejects they took their name from. I think this song was their way of shocking the hypocrites by reflecting their worst nightmares back on them.
I think it is about someone who loves, but feels he is forbidden to do so. He cannot express and live this love, he keeps it bottled up, and it owns him like he tries to own his control over it. He has lived in this manner for too long, so his heart has grown cold, and all he can think of is to keep control, like you keep a thing. That's the terms in which he thinks: Keeping, and ownership. This way of thinking and his obsession with his feeling of guilt bot have perverted his love, and his urge which once was an expression of the will to live has thus become a will to own. He watches the girl from afar, but wants to own, to steal her heart. His sensuality has already been deadened ("with these eyes I cannot see"), and his love has turned into poison. Then, he cannot longer supress his urge, and his will to own makes him kill her and eat her heart to replace his, which has become cold. I think on another level it's about how the shackles of a morally dogmatic and guilt-ridden society can turn individuals into emotionally crippled ghouls who cannot feel pleasure without pain and guilt, and thus will only be able to feed their lust off the grossest sensations when they deem themselves unwatched, while ignoring or neglecting their deeper inner needs in their everyday public life. The Virgin Prunes members felt stifled by their parochial environment, so they invented their 'Lypton Village' fantasy world, which was kind of a reclusive parallel universe, but at the same time they kept their interest in other people, like the rejects they took their name from. I think this song was their way of shocking the hypocrites by reflecting their worst nightmares back on them.