Another week, another serial killer. This isn’t really about one specific serial killer – the album it is taken from (In Absentia) features a character who appears in the lyrics of several tracks – a child who grows up to be a serial killer. As far as I’m aware Steven Wilson has never spoken of a direct link between his songs and any particular serial killer, but I always imagine it to be Fred West – probably in no small part to the title of this track (if you’ve seen a photograph of West you probably know what I mean).

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