Appears on: Soup, Letters From a Porcupine

Recorded at: Kingsway Studios, New Orleans, Ultrasonic Studios, New Orleans

Produced by: Andy Wallace and Blind Melon

Brad: bass
Christopher: guitar
Glen: drums
Rogers: guitar
Shannon: vocals, kazoo

Live Performances: played on the brief Soup tour

Notes:
The song is about the 1950's serial killer, Ed Gein, from Plainfield, Wisconsin who murdered women and cut off their body parts and wore them.  In his house, police found a belt fashioned from carved-off nipples, a chair upholstered in human skin, the crown of a skull used as a soup-bowl, lampshades covered in flesh pulled taut, a table propped up by a human shinbones, and a refrigerator full of human organs. The four posts on Gein's bed were topped with skulls and a human head hung on the wall alongside nine death-masks - the skinned faces of women - and decorative bracelets made out of human skin. Gein confessed that he enjoyed dressing himself in this and other human-skin garments and pretending he was his own mother.

Shannon: "You know everybody's a lawyer in one way or another I think everybody's just fascinated with the mentality of people who commit these crimes. Did society create this person or was this person born like that.  What a guy to have host a party... man I don't know if I would want one of his tables or not. I mean it's disgusting but at the same time can you imagine..."

Shannon: "Well, I knew the melody line I wanted to sing, but as far as subject matter and lyrical content I hadn't arranged it. And I was sitting there and reading about serial killers — I'm inspired in a surprising way by them — and I was intrigued to read about
their mentality.  Obviously not condoning what they do, but they're fascinating. Ed Gein — do you remember the movie Silence
of the Lambs? Part of his story was used in the film. He was kind of like an indian — he would make use of everything he
killed. He would use parts of human bodies for everything. He would make furniture out of their bones and use skin to make
lampshades. At the time of his arrest he had three full bodies of skin in his barn!  He just peeled them off and he would dress up
in them and dance around.

It was horrible, but I believe there are two sides to everything. To find the humour in things can keep you going. Obviously
things like crimes against children I can’t find any humour in, which is the subject of ‘Car Seat.’ Because children are so pure,
and being a new father now I can really see it that way."

Glen: "Shannon's  fascinated by that, it's his thing - he's got the encyclopedia of serial killers with him at all times."

The movie Psycho was loosely based on Ed Gein.

This is a picture of Ed Gein. 
Lyrics:
You know the local made ones would be nice
to see a little Dahmer like you
walking around with a couple of hammers like that
At least Ed Gein would
Ed Gein was a very good fellow you know
I'll make a shoehorn outta your skin
I'll make a lampshade of durable skin
And oh, don't you know that I'm always feelin' able
When I'm sittin' home and I'm carving out your navel
When will I realize that this skin I'm in
Hey, it isn't mine
And when will the kill be too much meat for me to hide on
Hey, I could really use a couple of hands
To complete one hell of a plant stand
Oh, don't you know that I'm caught here in the middle
Making rib cages into coffee tables
And when I realize that this skin I'm in
Hey, it isn't mine
And when will the thrill be too much meat for me to find anymore
Oh, because you know I can't hide
But oh how hard I try
But this is just the shape I'm in, oh yeah
And though you know I can't hide
But oh how hard I try
But this is just the shape I'm in

Song Interpretation:
By Joshh
This is what i thought the song was saying before i heard what the lyrics really meant:

I'll make a shoe horn out of your shin
I'll make a lampshade of durable skin
and oh dont ya know that im always feelin able
when im sittin home and im carvin out your navel

( ok. this might sound weird, but check it out ......in this song, it sounds to me like its an inner person... a demon ... is singing out, it's inside the person singing out....  if you think of it that way, the 1st verse is pretty self- explanitory.)

when will i realize that this skin im in,
hey it isnt mine.
and when will the thrill be to much
meat for me to hide  on

( in that chorus.. it's talking about how it doesn't own tha person it is in, the 1st 2 lines, ........in the last two lines, its talking about the thrill the demon would get from ruining a persons life.  so what it would be saying is that when the person it was in died, he would have to leave that person.)

hey i could really use a couple of hands
to complete one hell of a lampstand
and oh dont ya know that im caught here in tha middle
makin rib cages into coffe tables

(the second verse is the same as the 1st verse..... just new words)

and when will i realize that this skin im in,
hey it isnt mine
and when will the kill be too much
meat for me to hide on

( the chorus.... the same, except he uses the word  kill, not thrill . it would still mean tha same thing.   the demon is trying to kill the person, and every spiritual harm it does "kills " the person in a way.  again it is saying when will the kill be too much to hide on...... same as the 1st
chorus..)