During a performance of 4PM on Live at Double J, Jodi Phillis explained that the song was based on a novel by Davis Grubb, called The Night Of The Hunter.
There's also a movie of the same name, based on the novel by Davis Grubb, starring Robert Mitchum.
The short version:
It's about a serial killer who masquerades as a preacher.
While in prison, he meets a man who is to be executed for killing a man while committing a bank robbery. The man doesn't reveal where the money from the bank robbery was hidden, but reveals that his children know the location of the money.
So, with the promise of the money, the preacher travels to the town where the executed man's wife and children still live, and he endeavours to get them to reveal where the money is.
The movie is excellent and the book is apparently very good as well.
During a performance of 4PM on Live at Double J, Jodi Phillis explained that the song was based on a novel by Davis Grubb, called The Night Of The Hunter.
There's also a movie of the same name, based on the novel by Davis Grubb, starring Robert Mitchum.
The short version:
It's about a serial killer who masquerades as a preacher.
While in prison, he meets a man who is to be executed for killing a man while committing a bank robbery. The man doesn't reveal where the money from the bank robbery was hidden, but reveals that his children know the location of the money.
So, with the promise of the money, the preacher travels to the town where the executed man's wife and children still live, and he endeavours to get them to reveal where the money is.
The movie is excellent and the book is apparently very good as well.