It used to be called The Margretville Town Dance but the name was changed when the Cd was released. I think this song is about Cecillia and her twin brothers being captured ("From here on out we walk restrained... Afraid") by the Bleam family, whom they meet in the woods after running away from home (see Our Dearest Daughter...). Their mother may or may not be alive at this point (depending upon your interpretation of 'A Death In the Family') but, either way, The Bleam brothers Long-Arm and Butchie are FREAKING CRAZY and obsessed with sending souls to god, for which purpose they create the Blood Machine, a machine which rips dead bodies apart to harvest their soul and send it to god. The reference to the "Machine" and lines such as "Is this the way you watch the body die?" suggest they are taken to the machine by the Bleam brothers. At which point the song ends?
It used to be called The Margretville Town Dance but the name was changed when the Cd was released. I think this song is about Cecillia and her twin brothers being captured ("From here on out we walk restrained... Afraid") by the Bleam family, whom they meet in the woods after running away from home (see Our Dearest Daughter...). Their mother may or may not be alive at this point (depending upon your interpretation of 'A Death In the Family') but, either way, The Bleam brothers Long-Arm and Butchie are FREAKING CRAZY and obsessed with sending souls to god, for which purpose they create the Blood Machine, a machine which rips dead bodies apart to harvest their soul and send it to god. The reference to the "Machine" and lines such as "Is this the way you watch the body die?" suggest they are taken to the machine by the Bleam brothers. At which point the song ends?