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His Salvation is Sin

from Heart & Reason by a Direst Desire

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A song written about Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936).

He was an American serial killer. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac and The Boogey Man.
A child rapist and cannibal, he boasted that he "had children in every state," and at one time stated the number was about 100. However, it is not known whether he was talking about rapes or cannibalization, less still whether he was telling the truth.
He was a suspect in at least five murders during his lifetime. Fish confessed to three murders that police were able to trace to a known homicide, and he confessed to stabbing at least two other people.
He was tried for the kidnapping and murder of Grace Budd, and was convicted and executed by electric chair.

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Lyrics:

He was a traveling house painter,
church going Perpetrator or broken neighbor.
Wisteria Cottage, Manhattan - Lies a long abandoned,
pre-selected slaughter house.
Her boyish looks, tomboy demeanor - she died a virgin,
he led them to her skull.
Blood splattered walls and floor boards,
buried, rusted, blood stained - the cleaver and the saw.

Oh, no.

Synthetic ears, horrific fears,
the monsters imprint - hang framed upon a wall.
Some things you learn from being orphaned -
Compartmentalized, invisible persona.

From New York to Montana,
he's had his hands on every state.
covered the tracks and take the children,
to inflict the pain and to receive the same.

Oh, No!

He's got his Vices.
Follow these Voices.
Run like the 'Blind Man'.
Yeah, He's the 'Gray Man'.

He's got his Vices - There's some you'll never believe
Follow these Voices - He won't let anyone leave.
Run like the 'Blind Man' - You won't get out once you're in.
Yeah, He's the 'Gray Man' - And His Salvation is Sin.

He had the grace of God inside him,
embodied pathology and taken in the flesh.
Of all the children slayed inside him - Resonate the idea of sacrifice.
Delusional, sadistic wishes.
Conjor the thought - Religious psychosis.
You put the words together to see what they mean,
lash them until the blood runs red down at their feet.

Oh, No!

He's got his Vices.
Follow these Voices.
Run like the 'Blind Man'.
Yeah, He's the 'Gray Man'.

He's got his Vices - There's some you'll never believe
Follow these Voices - He won't let anyone leave.
Run like the 'Blind Man' - You won't get out once you're in.
Yeah, He's the 'Gray Man' - And His Salvation is Sin.

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from Heart & Reason, released June 13, 2013

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My name is Mike, these are my friends and this is a Direst Desire.

A Direst Desire by its very definition, is an urgent, desperate Craving or Longing. This longing is as equally felt in the songwriter as it is in the emotion it invokes in the listener. ... more

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