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My dewy-eyed Disney bride, what has tried
Swapping your blood with formaldehyde?
Monsters?
Whisky-plied voices cried fratricide!
Jesus don't you know that you could've died
(You should've died)
With the monsters that talk, monsters that walk the earth
And she's got red lipstick and a bright pair of shoes
And she's got knee high socks, what to cover a bruise
She's got an old death kit she's been meaning to use
She's got blood in her eyes, in her eyes for you
She's got blood in her eyes for you
Certain fads, stripes and plaids, singles ads
They run you hot and cold like a rheostat, I mean a thermostat
So you bite on a towel
Hope it won't hurt too bad
My dewy-eyed Disney bride, what has tried
Swapping your blood with formaldehyde?
What monsters that talk, monsters that walk the earth
And she says I like long walks and sci-fi movies
If you're six foot tall and east coast bred
Some lonely night we can get together
And I'm gonna tie your wrists with leather
And drill a tiny hole into your head
Swapping your blood with formaldehyde?
Monsters?
Whisky-plied voices cried fratricide!
Jesus don't you know that you could've died
(You should've died)
With the monsters that talk, monsters that walk the earth
And she's got red lipstick and a bright pair of shoes
And she's got knee high socks, what to cover a bruise
She's got an old death kit she's been meaning to use
She's got blood in her eyes, in her eyes for you
She's got blood in her eyes for you
Certain fads, stripes and plaids, singles ads
They run you hot and cold like a rheostat, I mean a thermostat
So you bite on a towel
Hope it won't hurt too bad
My dewy-eyed Disney bride, what has tried
Swapping your blood with formaldehyde?
What monsters that talk, monsters that walk the earth
And she says I like long walks and sci-fi movies
If you're six foot tall and east coast bred
Some lonely night we can get together
And I'm gonna tie your wrists with leather
And drill a tiny hole into your head
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The first verse signifies who the woman was: a “dewy-eyed Disney bride”. An outsider questions what has transformed such innocence into someone who resembles death (reference to formaldehyde). The references to monsters would refer to the men who have wronged her and abused her over her life. Specifically, the suggestion that there was abuse in her home from her brother (fratricide) would perpetuate her hatred towards men.
The next section paints a picture of the woman with her lipstick and shoes and the knee high socks, which are all attempts to cover up the bruises and scars that her past has given her. The mention of a death kit begins to show her hatred towards her brother and the men that have hurt her. The blood in her eyes further embellishes this and shows the extent of her hatred and her passion to seek revenge.
This woman then actively seeks out men to inflict her revenge on. The reference to a rheostat and biting on a towel suggests she is torturing these men. The last part of the song continues to outline her search for men to torture them the way that she has been abused in the past.
I'm not sure where people are getting the idea that theres also a guy who is a killer.
"jesus don't you know that you could've died" - I think immediately of erotic asphyxiation, which has a pretty big death toll, obviously.
"and she's got knee high socks, what to cover a bruise" - another example that screams BDSM.
"certain fads, stripes and plaids, singles ads" - BDSM has become a fad in the recent years.
"so you bite on a towel hope it won't hurt too bad" - loves the pain but is always scared?
"and she says i like long walks and sci-fi movies
if you're six foot tall and east coast bred
some lonely night we can get together
and i'm gonna tie your wrists with leather
and drill a tiny hole into your head" - looking for someone to join the act.
Now, there's a 99.9% chance that I'm taking this way out of proportion. I also see the metaphors in the above lines. But every time I listen to this, I think of BDSM. Maybe my mind's just too polluted from religiously reading Mary Gaitskill.
It reminds me of the Maximum Ride books, about genetic experiments. It seems like this girl is a scientist going on a dating site to try and find subjects to use in experiments(which is easy because she's cute), but she needs a certain kind with special likes and dislikes or a certain trait...
and she says i like long walks and sci-fi movies
if you're six foot tall and east coast bred
so she can "run them hot and cold" and "drill a tiny hole into your head" before she kills them off either with her death kit or with the "monsters that walk the earth."
Or she could be testing you to see why you survived a different kind of monster (one that's common on the East Coast) which are armed robbers, muggers, etc.
But hey.
What do you guys think of this interpretation?