This song seems to be about the crimes of Amelia Dyer, a woman in Victorian England who murdered hundreds of babies under the ruse that she was running an orphanage.
How come these foul accusations?
He made me save them from tears
Singing my lullaby
I've had my heart and soul controlled by
the raven
And for the crime he should be
Sent to live benearth instead of me
-Reference to her attempt to plead insanity
I thank you mothers for the children left behind
And all the money I can carry
This life may treat me kind
-Amelia collected a sizable fee from mothers intended for the care of infants, she just killed them and pocketed it
Some of the other verses are confusing because she had no witting accomplices, but I think this song is told from her POV and she's believed to have had some sort of drug induced personality dissociation
This song seems to be about the crimes of Amelia Dyer, a woman in Victorian England who murdered hundreds of babies under the ruse that she was running an orphanage.
How come these foul accusations? He made me save them from tears Singing my lullaby I've had my heart and soul controlled by the raven And for the crime he should be Sent to live benearth instead of me -Reference to her attempt to plead insanity
I thank you mothers for the children left behind And all the money I can carry This life may treat me kind -Amelia collected a sizable fee from mothers intended for the care of infants, she just killed them and pocketed it
Some of the other verses are confusing because she had no witting accomplices, but I think this song is told from her POV and she's believed to have had some sort of drug induced personality dissociation