Bed Of Nails Lyrics

Lyric discussion by lukeGmusic 

Cover art for Bed Of Nails lyrics by Wild Beasts

Anyone know what the "...shelleys on their very fist time..." bit refers to?

That whole verse is referring to Mary Shelley's novel 'Frankenstein'.

Close. The line ties the idea of their love being "Frankenstein" (i.e. hodge-podge and/or man-made, possibly artificial) with the novel's author Mary Shelley and her lover, the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; also weaving the idea of both couples' (the Shelleys and the singer-"Ophelia" pairing) "first time together" with literal electricity, the method used to animate Frankenstein's monster, and the metaphorical sexual electricity that brings their unusual love to life.