The song is about the famous murderer and body snatcher Ed Gein.
After his mother's death he dug up graves and collected body parts to recreate her appearance. He began to create a "woman suit" so that "he could become his mother—to literally crawl into her skin".
"She's over by my place as decoration
I preserved her face for inspiration"
" Mother's not really gone I'm dressing in her
Dusty musty shrine to ma
Board the door so she'll keep long
There's no way that she'll be leaving me"
"Familiar faces of the long dead" - he used to exhume freshly buried bodies of women which resembled his mother.
Ed was known as "Butcher of Plainfield".
"The mad butcher goes bump in the night"
When authorities arrested him and searched his farm they found many human body parts:
"Flashlights from authorities
Lanterns brighten up the scene"
"The farm bathes in the thumping moonlight
It incubates my grief and madness"
"Deadache" is a word-play of the words "dead" and "headache" describing Ed's mental condition.
The song is about the famous murderer and body snatcher Ed Gein. After his mother's death he dug up graves and collected body parts to recreate her appearance. He began to create a "woman suit" so that "he could become his mother—to literally crawl into her skin".
"She's over by my place as decoration I preserved her face for inspiration"
" Mother's not really gone I'm dressing in her Dusty musty shrine to ma Board the door so she'll keep long There's no way that she'll be leaving me"
"Familiar faces of the long dead" - he used to exhume freshly buried bodies of women which resembled his mother.
Ed was known as "Butcher of Plainfield". "The mad butcher goes bump in the night"
When authorities arrested him and searched his farm they found many human body parts: "Flashlights from authorities Lanterns brighten up the scene"
"The farm bathes in the thumping moonlight It incubates my grief and madness"
"Deadache" is a word-play of the words "dead" and "headache" describing Ed's mental condition.