Sufjan Stevens這名歌手的簡介就不再多談了,之前傳的視頻有他的詳細介紹。這首歌有很深的含義,但很多人不懂,我在這把歌詞貼出來,它是有關美國著名連環殺手John Wayne Gacy的(相關人物簡介:小丑該是令人快樂和引人歡笑的,但遇上由 John Wayne Gacy 所扮演的小丑,你只會驚慌尖叫。出生於芝加哥的他,以優異的成績於商學院畢業,之後結了婚并成為了一名出色的銷售員。他非常受所居住的社區的鄰居所喜愛,特別是小孩子,因為他會扮演名叫「Pogo」的小丑去娛樂他們。但是他年青時也曾因為性騷擾男同事和意圖強*男孩而留下案底,只是他之後一直表現得循規蹈矩,掩飾了他潛在的獸性,令人一時未能察覺得到。 直至 1978 年 12 月 11 日,一名叫 Robert Piest 的男孩在出外工作面試後一去不返,他當天所約見的建筑營造商正是 John Wayne Gacy。警方開始針對他來調查,但他對事件一概否認,最終警方決定搜查這位好好先生的大宅。結果他們并沒有找到 Robert Piest,卻在一道隱藏門下的地庫找到 7 具腐爛了的屍體,那一刻他們才驚覺找到了美國其中一名冷血連環殺手,之後在屋內和後花園再掘起 28 具屍體,包括 Robert Piest 在內的其馀 5 名被害者,則因為家中再沒空位而被拋入河中棄屍。 身型肥胖的他,在以瘦為主的連環殺手界確是較為罕見的。至於殺人的原因,他自稱是出於對同性戀的憎恨,但其實被害者中大部分也是異性戀者。對於這種指控,他并不認同?!府斘覐?了他們,一切便已足夠。他們要為進行過同性戀的性行為而死!」)
歌詞:His father was a drinker
And his mother cried in bed
Folding John Wayne's T-shirts
When the swingset hit his head
The neighbors they adored him
For his humor and his conversation
Look underneath the house there
Find the few living things
Rotting fast in their sleep of the dead
Twenty-seven people, even more
They were boys with their cars, summer jobs
Oh my God
Are you one of them?
He dressed up like a clown for them
With his face paint white and red
And on his best behavior
In a dark room on the bed he kissed them all
He'd kill ten thousand people
With a sleight of his hand
Running far, running fast to the dead
He took of all their clothes for them
He put a cloth on their lips
Quiet hands, quiet kiss
On the mouth
And in my best behavior
I am really just like him
Look beneath the floorboards
For the secrets I have hid