Album: L.D. 50 (2000)

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• Cold and silent, soiled face I will wash it all away,
  With my love,
  Thatâ??s all sheâ??s ever needed, from me
  Itâ??s my time, to mother,
  One of my own in my life,
  I am so alone, left with no one
  In my life, Iâ??m so alone
  
  Life submissiveness,
  Hypnotizing the ignorant a little boyâ??s best friendâ??s always his mother,
  At least thatâ??s what she said,
  Life of a simple man,
  Taught that everyone else is dirty,
  And their love is meaningless,
  Iâ??m just a soiled dirty boy,
  Iâ??m just a soiled dirty boy,
  
  Sheltered life innocence,
  Insulated memories, spark reflections of my head,
  Duality in my consciousness,
  Caught in the war of hemispheres,
  Between the love lost in my head,
  Mommy do you still live inside of me,
  Iâ??m so lost in my life without any guiding,
  Protected me my whole life from everything,
  Nailed shut the doors to the shrine,
  To screen your dead eyes from me and my sickness,
  Mutilate and sew my new clothes for masquerading,
  Aprons of flesh corpse scalped hair with skin upon my face,
  
  Deliver the remains from her womb of earth,
  Prep the rack and tie up for new loveâ??s rebirth,
  Covert understanding of novice surgery,
  Iâ??ll focus concentration and only take just what I need
  For sickness Iâ??m masticating,
  Dancing and masturbating,
  Celebrate in fields of night with skin upon my face
  
  If I soak my hands in others blood am I sick,
  If I wash my hands in others blood am I sick,
  If I drench myself in others blood am I sick,
  If I bathe myself in others blood
  
  Blame mother for the sickness,
  Mutilate and sew my new clothes for masquerading,
  Aprons of flesh corpse scalped hair with skin upon my face,
  Dance and masturbate in night light by myself..
  
  Nothing is left for me to gain theyâ??re coming to take me far away,
  
  Chorus
  
  Life of a simple man taught that everyone else is dirty and love is meaningless
  Iâ??m so soiled
  Soiled Writer/s: CHAD L. GRAY, GREG TRIBBETT, MATTHEW MCDONOUGH, RYAN MARTINIE
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 8

• Jesus Christ from Your HeartLol at the dude that said "it's possible it's a play on the word "gain"... I really super hope the world is not this stupid. Seriously? Of course it is. Well, actually it's the other way around. Gein was a play on gain. Nothing to gain... that is a common saying meaning exactly what it says. He changed it to Gein to highlight the subject matter in the lyrics. It's really not super clever... not that it is bad at all. It's perfectly normal word play for song titles. Superbly ridiculous anyone is unsure about that. Is it possible to overestimate the general population, thinking this s--t is obvious? It was hard to even explain because its just that obvious.
• Robert from Chicago, Il"Dancing masturbating I live by myself!" Ed's mother was his whole world. When she died he was lost, "Life of a simple man. Taught that everyone else is dirty. Life is meaningless. I'm so soiled!" Much like the story of Norman Bates in "psycho". The home he occupied was much like the home in "texas chainsaw" and his activities were like that of the buffalo bill character in "silence of the lambs" because he was making a real human skin woman suit. His momma jacked him good! watch the live daytime concert video from ozzfest 2001 on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2ZL2NPzWzQ
• Joel from Columbia, ScThis is not their only song concerning a killer.
  Remeber that song that played in saw 2?
• Max from New York, NyI think Gein is very possibly also a pun for gain. As in nothing to gain. As in ultimately coming to the moral conclusion, life and submissiveness, offer nothing to gain.
• Crystal from Newark, Ny"I think Ed Gein reminds us that we live in a very mysterious, ever-changing, moving, potential universe. Nothing to Gein is about Ed Gein. Not a serial killer, but a necrophiliac, cannibal, whatever you want to call him, and he had certain things that could be associated with the moon and he did things under the moon light that I think were important to him." straight from the mouth of Matt McDonaugh mudvaynes drummer.
• Brian from Paoli, InA really great, song. Very cleverly written. My favorite Mudvayne song by far.
  
  Slayer has a song called "Dead Skin Mask" which is also about Ed Gein.
• Shane Truax from Savannah, GaI would like to thank Jamie for straighting up the matter of Ed Geins murders. While he only committed two murders, it was the reason for his nocturnal raids on the local graveyard which horrorified Eisenhower-era America. Police found chairs upholstered with human skin, Mammary vests and foud Gein enjoyed dressing himself in human skin garments pretending he was his own mother!
  This is from the A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Harold Schechter and David Everitt.
• Jamie from Richmond, TxI'd like to make a correction for Stefano regarding Ed Gein. He never killed his mother. She died of after the second stroke in her life. He was only convicted of killing one woman, but did confess to killing one other woman. All of this information can be found in the book "Deviant" and on several websites.

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