Wax and Wire

This song is about more than death. It is about the beautification of death movement in the mortuary sciences. If you look at historical archeology and forensic anthropology books about mortuary behaviors of different societies you will notice a trend starting in the mid 19th century where people start to beautify their dead. In a sense they are making them look alive when they are actually dead to make it easier on their loved ones. When they refer to wax they are referring to the wax that they apply to the body to help preserve the skin until burial and to reduce foul odors...they apply makeup after the wax to make it look natural. The wire parts are because you have to wire the deceased's jaw shut as the jaw generally naturally drops at some point after death...depending on the perimortem position of the body. As for the hair from the back of the neck I have heard of morticians using hair from other parts of the body to fill in eyebrows. All of this is done by the person singing the song so he can make the persons face brand new.