Baby I'm Dead
dr. demento
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Dr. Demento (born April 2, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is the stage nam… Read Full Bio ↴Dr. Demento (born April 2, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is the stage name of Barret Hansen [1], who has made a successful career as a radio disc jockey specializing in novelty songs and pop music parodies. He created the persona in 1970 while working at Los Angeles station KPPC-FM. Legend has it, after Hansen played "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvus on the radio, someone said that he had to be demented to play that. Thereafter, the name stuck. His weekly show went into syndication in 1974 and is still on the air as of 2006. He has also released many compilations of music featured on his show on vinyl records, audio tape cassettes, and compact discs. To some people, he is best known as the man who brought rock parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic to national attention, as well as Elmo and Patsy's 1979 Christmas song "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer". Hansen was born the son of an amateur pianist and claims to have started his vast record collection as early as age 12, when he found "that a local thrift store had thousands of old 78 RPM records for sale at 5 cents each". He attended Reed College, where he wrote his senior thesis on Wagnerian opera, graduating in 1963, and later studied at UCLA, from which he earned a master's degree in folklore and ethnomusicology. Hansen has developed a particular interest in the roots of rock 'n' roll in R&B and country music, and he has written about it in many magazine articles, liner notes to compilations and new recordings by a variety of artists, and two chapters on early R&B for The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll. His shows and public appearances display an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of recorded music in general, from the earliest Edison cylinder recordings onward.
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Crawl from the tomb
Fresh from the womb
Lord help us all
The next baby boom
Daddy left his seed
But mommy couldn't breath
Life born from death
Bringing on new breed
Creep across your floor
Scratching at your door
I necrofelt like this before
Birth of a
Birth of a
Birth of a
Birth of a
Dead Baby
Once I'm inside
Nowhere to hide
Im here to bring infanticide
Its come to this
Mutilated bliss
Crawl in their cribs
And slit their wrists
Birth of a
Birth of a
Birth of a
Birth of a
Dead Baby
The lyrics for Dr. Demento's song "Baby I'm Dead" are incredibly disturbing, exploring the concept of infanticide and the fear associated with the "next baby boom". The song opens with the imagery of something emerging from a tomb and fresh from the womb, creating an unnerving sense of rebirth and new life. However, this is quickly subverted by the revelation that the baby born in the song is dead, with the morbid implication that this is just the beginning of a larger, darker trend.
The second verse delves deeper into the concept of infanticide, with the singer declaring that there is "nowhere to hide" once they are inside. The line "mutilated bliss" is especially chilling, suggesting that the act of killing brings a sense of twisted joy to the singer. The final lines of the song drive home the horror of the situation, with the singer discussing crawling into cribs and slitting wrists.
Overall, the lyrics are a disturbing exploration of violence and death, centered around the birth of a dead baby and a narrator who revels in causing harm to innocent children.
Crawl from the tomb
Awakening from the grave
Fresh from the womb
Recently born
Lord help us all
Requesting divine intervention
The next baby boom
An increase in newborns
Daddy left his seed
Fathered a child
But mommy couldn't breath
Mother died during childbirth
Life born from death
New life from a deceased mother
Bringing on new breed
Contributing to the next generation
Creep across your floor
Moving stealthily in your vicinity
Scratching at your door
Attempting to gain access
I necrofelt like this before
Never felt so alive
Birth of a Dead Baby
The creation of a deceased infant
Once I'm inside
After gaining access
Nowhere to hide
Without any escape options
Im here to bring infanticide
Intending to kill infants
Its come to this
Resorting to violence
Mutilated bliss
Deriving pleasure from carnage
Crawl in their cribs
Entering infants' beds
And slit their wrists
Cutting their wrists to kill them
Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Written by: James Clifford, Mike Trentacosta, Preston Hashagen
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