I'm just now looking at this for the first time, but I think this song is about prostitution. Mr. Electric is a pimp. No, seriously.
I'm just now looking at this for the first time, but I think this song is about prostitution. Mr. Electric is a pimp. No, seriously.
"dawn: wooing the blue from the crawling eyes of babies
midday: vanished. grinning through the sweat pores of harlots and whores."
"dawn: wooing the blue from the crawling eyes of babies
midday: vanished. grinning through the sweat pores of harlots and whores."
He takes innocent, young girls, and corrupts them. He's "grinning through sweat pores" because he's responsible.
He takes innocent, young girls, and corrupts them. He's "grinning through sweat pores" because he's responsible.
"sundown: opening a cloak of tentacles...preaching the gospel of cracked crystal beaks."
"sundown: opening a cloak of tentacles...preaching the gospel of cracked crystal beaks."
Not exactly sure here to be honest, but I think the cloak of tentacles is just a stand in...
Not exactly sure here to be honest, but I think the cloak of tentacles is just a stand in for generic weirdness. It's not any one thing specifically. But the "gospel of cracked crystal beaks"? I think that might be a reference to cocaine, with beak as a slang term for nose. In which case, the cloak of tentacles could be surgical tubing used for the drugs.
"dusk: peeling back the birth skin like wrapping paper around a virgin. vanish again.
twilight: march on electric children!"
He's peeling back the birth skin like wrapping paper, in that he's doing away with the air of innocence they once had, exposing them. They're electric children not just as a reference to other songs, in that Mr. Electric made them this way, but in another it could be a reference to living under the neon signs of a red light district.
"and you, with your self righteous army of crotches spewing paper children, his death hole is deeper.
and stronger than love."
The "paper children" spewing forth from crotches is money, coming from prostitution. His death hole is a brothel, or maybe just metaphorical for his whole operation itself. It's "stronger than love" in that it's based on money, so it's always going to be there.
best part: vanish again, vanish again, vanish again, vanish again. MARCH ON ELECTRIC CHILDREN.
I'm just now looking at this for the first time, but I think this song is about prostitution. Mr. Electric is a pimp. No, seriously.
I'm just now looking at this for the first time, but I think this song is about prostitution. Mr. Electric is a pimp. No, seriously.
"dawn: wooing the blue from the crawling eyes of babies midday: vanished. grinning through the sweat pores of harlots and whores."
"dawn: wooing the blue from the crawling eyes of babies midday: vanished. grinning through the sweat pores of harlots and whores."
He takes innocent, young girls, and corrupts them. He's "grinning through sweat pores" because he's responsible.
He takes innocent, young girls, and corrupts them. He's "grinning through sweat pores" because he's responsible.
"sundown: opening a cloak of tentacles...preaching the gospel of cracked crystal beaks."
"sundown: opening a cloak of tentacles...preaching the gospel of cracked crystal beaks."
Not exactly sure here to be honest, but I think the cloak of tentacles is just a stand in...
Not exactly sure here to be honest, but I think the cloak of tentacles is just a stand in for generic weirdness. It's not any one thing specifically. But the "gospel of cracked crystal beaks"? I think that might be a reference to cocaine, with beak as a slang term for nose. In which case, the cloak of tentacles could be surgical tubing used for the drugs.
"dusk: peeling back the birth skin like wrapping paper around a virgin. vanish again. twilight: march on electric children!"
He's peeling back the birth skin like wrapping paper, in that he's doing away with the air of innocence they once had, exposing them. They're electric children not just as a reference to other songs, in that Mr. Electric made them this way, but in another it could be a reference to living under the neon signs of a red light district.
"and you, with your self righteous army of crotches spewing paper children, his death hole is deeper. and stronger than love."
The "paper children" spewing forth from crotches is money, coming from prostitution. His death hole is a brothel, or maybe just metaphorical for his whole operation itself. It's "stronger than love" in that it's based on money, so it's always going to be there.