Story Behind The Song

"She's Cremating Herself" is from a Spaghetti Western concept album. The song portrays a nightmarish hallucination the protagonist has while he is trapped in a grave after being buried alive by his double-crossing fiancee.

Song Description

"She's Cremating Herself" begins with a dark yet catchy guitar riff that introduces a unique drum groove. Howling vocals begin describing nightmarish scenes of punishment that resemble Dante's Inferno. The trumpet creeps in and then commences with a wild solo much like the one found in Dick Dale's "Miserlou." The bridge features a chilling guitar solo that builds towards a frenzied, borderline chaotic finish.

Lyrics

She threw my brain in a hurricane
Like cow meat beat with a metal chain
When she broke the bottles of champagne.

And her lips--her lips, they felt like whips
The last time we had a kiss
When her crying eyes became eclipsed.

And she's cremating herself.

Her tongue's like a bum laying on the grass,
Dead from a heart attack
From her clogged up, coal black, smoke stacks.

Her eyes are like a thousand knives
Stacked with pines up to the sky
And soaked with gas until they're dry.

And she's cremating herself.

I've been walking on flaming coals
Since the night when she ate my soul
With a side of slaw and a buttered roll.

I've been sleeping on a bed of nails
Since she jumped and she fell
To the icy core of Satan's hell.

And she's cremating herself.

She had a smile that spoiled like milk
And knitted lies like winter quilts
That hung from the trees and made them wilt.

Her cries fly out like fireflies
In the night at the speed of light
To light the fire of the funeral pyre.

And she's cremating herself.