Can I get nominations for the best songs ever written about necrophilia?
I have two.
I Love the Dead by Alice Cooper; and
Archie & Veronica (love in Riverdale) by Lovage.
Uncle Alice is a master of corpse-love lyrics (also see Cold Ethyl):
While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave
I have other uses for you, darling.
But Mike Patton & Jennifer Charles get to the rotting heart of the matter:
Mike:
Sitting on a cold slab
Feeling my warm stab
You know I'll be missing you
That's why I'm kissing you
Jennifer:
Jealous of the flies and the worms inside me
Any more nominations? I'm not really interested in Cannibal Corpse-style gory silliness. Give me romance, people!
Posted by joey at July 19, 2006 11:29 AM
My Dying Bride probably crossed that line at some point, given all their songs were about sex, death and religion, often combined, but I can't think of one.
Thom Gunn's last book had lyrics from an "unfinished" opera on Jeffrey Dahmer: they were billed as "Troubador: songs for Jeffrey Dahmer". Apparently they've been set to music by Jay Lyon but I haven't heard 'em.
To give you a taste (nyuk) of them, I'll quote the opening of the first song, "Hitchhiker":
Oh do not leave me now.
All that I ever wanted is compressed
in your sole body. As you turn to go
I know that I must keep you, and know how,
for I must hold the ribbed arch of your chest
and taste your boyish glow."
See? Romantic, not Cannibal-Corpse-style silliness. They're all good (in fact the only bit of serial-killer literature I've genuinely *enjoyed*), but better taken in their entirety, so I won't quote more.
Posted by: Andrew at July 20, 2006 5:07 PMThat reminds me: Silence of the Lambs: The Musical! Not necrophilia, but cannibalism? Fer sure!
http://www.silencethemusical.com/
Also, unrelatedly but still demented: Shoggoth on the Roof, an unsuccessful (as in never-staged) Lovecraft musical!
http://www.cthulhulives.org/shoggoth/
As they themselves say: "There are some things that man was not meant to adapt to musical theatre."