Songfacts®:

• This song is about a vampire and the women who he thinks he loves. "Nosferatu" is another name for a vampire. >>

  Suggestion credit:
  Jerry - Boston, MA
• This song is a homage to the classic 1921 German expressionist film Nosferatu, widely hailed by film scholars as one of the great masterpieces of the film genre. While the technology of the time confined it to grainy black and white images and no sound, director F. W. Murnau wrung fantastic imagery out of the process. Not only was Nosferatu a technical first for many now-standard practices in film, it was also a first for many elements of vampire fiction, such as the idea that daylight kills vampires. For this reason, it is also adored by the goth subculture, some of whole are still running around with T-shirts bearing the spine-tingling visage of Count Orlok. Even modern readers of the Twilight series owe some cultural debt to Nosferatu.
• The lyric was written by the punk singer Helen Wheels (Helen Robbins), along with the band's bass player, Joe Bouchard, who composed the music. Helen was an early associate of the band, and one of several people who would contribute lyrics. She also worked on the band's wardrobe.
• In the book MTV Ruled the World - The Early Years of Music Video, BOC frontman Eric Bloom tells us of their adaptation to the video age: "Some people's perspective was, 'These guys really suck... but they have a great video.' Like somebody would put too much money in a video, which could be an amazing video, and the band takes off from it, people go see them live, and they're not very good. But all of the above happened. You could have a s--tty video, but be a great band."