Song is about Carl Tanzer. A guy who tried to save a woman he was obsessed with from death. When she died he stole her corpse and tried to preserve it using glass eyes and some sort of embalming material. By the end the body looked a lot like paper mache. The song is about trying to make the corpse better and preserve her fresh young face. By the end he seems to realize that she's dead, and to move on and stop trying to preserve it before reverting back to the delusion of trying to 'Keep her alive'.
Song is about Carl Tanzer. A guy who tried to save a woman he was obsessed with from death. When she died he stole her corpse and tried to preserve it using glass eyes and some sort of embalming material. By the end the body looked a lot like paper mache. The song is about trying to make the corpse better and preserve her fresh young face. By the end he seems to realize that she's dead, and to move on and stop trying to preserve it before reverting back to the delusion of trying to 'Keep her alive'.