I think this song is about a serial killer being told by this serial killer's child.
The song itself is written from the perspective of a child who knows what their father is doing. "my daddy's got a gun, you better run." that part seems obvious to me.
When the verse with "it started In the hayloft... young lovers not sleeping." I've heard variations of this line in various media being in reference to sex, so I think that the first murder was some teenagers or young adults, who thought the hayloft was abandoned, snuck out to basically have sex in it. The owner of this hayloft is probably the classic rickety weirdo farmer who lives on the outskirts of town trope, and brings his shotgun out in the middle of the night (they mention long johns which were and probably still are commonly used as warm PJs for farmers) and goes out to see who trespassed on his property. In defending his property, he shot their heads off and probably either:
a) enjoyed killing them and wanted to continue
or
b) is probably nuts and sees this as a fit punishment for trespassing... to just kill them point blank.
I think the next verse after the chorus would take place after some time has passed and he continues to kill young lovers who use his barn as a place to have sex or what ever. they mention the lovers being tied up on their legs (and most likely other places) and then they're killed. My conclusion for that is that he does take pleasure in killing these people so he ties them up in his hayloft when he catches them and then offs them like livestock because he's psycho.
That's just the conclusion I've come to from analyzing this song, if im wrong im wrong but that's what I think is the most logical theory in my mind because of mother mother's obvious themes and the creepy tone of the song.
I think this song is about a serial killer being told by this serial killer's child.
The song itself is written from the perspective of a child who knows what their father is doing. "my daddy's got a gun, you better run." that part seems obvious to me.
When the verse with "it started In the hayloft... young lovers not sleeping." I've heard variations of this line in various media being in reference to sex, so I think that the first murder was some teenagers or young adults, who thought the hayloft was abandoned, snuck out to basically have sex in it. The owner of this hayloft is probably the classic rickety weirdo farmer who lives on the outskirts of town trope, and brings his shotgun out in the middle of the night (they mention long johns which were and probably still are commonly used as warm PJs for farmers) and goes out to see who trespassed on his property. In defending his property, he shot their heads off and probably either:
a) enjoyed killing them and wanted to continue or b) is probably nuts and sees this as a fit punishment for trespassing... to just kill them point blank.
I think the next verse after the chorus would take place after some time has passed and he continues to kill young lovers who use his barn as a place to have sex or what ever. they mention the lovers being tied up on their legs (and most likely other places) and then they're killed. My conclusion for that is that he does take pleasure in killing these people so he ties them up in his hayloft when he catches them and then offs them like livestock because he's psycho.
That's just the conclusion I've come to from analyzing this song, if im wrong im wrong but that's what I think is the most logical theory in my mind because of mother mother's obvious themes and the creepy tone of the song.