In a recent track-by-track with Rocksound.TV, Michael Poulson went into what the story this song is trying to tell, explaining that it's a continuation of the song 'By a Monster's Hand'. He says that it finds the serial killer in his new home. "In the grand finale, he opens his box and makes a puppet show out of real human bones and skin. He becomes so obsessed with his own theater that he wants to put himself in the box that he has all these body parts in. He crumples himself into it and starts to cut off his own limbs and body parts, then the play is over and the key to the box is lost on the floor with him inside of it.”
If you want to go deeper into it, it's a macabre story of a killer's fixation that becomes so extreme that he mutilates himself to become part of the performance, ultimately trapping himself in the box, symbolizing self-destruction through obsession and the loss of identity. The lost key possibly suggests there's no escape from the madness he created, emphasising the themes of isolation, artistic obsession, and psychological collapse.
In a recent track-by-track with Rocksound.TV, Michael Poulson went into what the story this song is trying to tell, explaining that it's a continuation of the song 'By a Monster's Hand'. He says that it finds the serial killer in his new home. "In the grand finale, he opens his box and makes a puppet show out of real human bones and skin. He becomes so obsessed with his own theater that he wants to put himself in the box that he has all these body parts in. He crumples himself into it and starts to cut off his own limbs and body parts, then the play is over and the key to the box is lost on the floor with him inside of it.”
If you want to go deeper into it, it's a macabre story of a killer's fixation that becomes so extreme that he mutilates himself to become part of the performance, ultimately trapping himself in the box, symbolizing self-destruction through obsession and the loss of identity. The lost key possibly suggests there's no escape from the madness he created, emphasising the themes of isolation, artistic obsession, and psychological collapse.
[Edit: Clarification]