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I Used To Skin My Cats When I Was Young!

from Reload Your Gun! by Danny Ramirez

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'The lyrics of I Used To Skin! don’t tell about murder, but are about some guy who showed similar behaviour in his younger years as much of today’s serial killers did when they were young. The person in the song knows he’s been killing his neighbours and buried them underneath his house, but he denies it. The music, vocal melody and overall atmosphere remind me a bit of a French chanson. Although Skin My Cats! has been done much live since its debut performance on June 29, 2002, in later years I sometimes skipped it. For instance, it wasn't played at all at the Misanthropic Winter! 2008 gigs. But on April 19, 2008, the song returned on the set list and has been on most of them since.'

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Though I ain't no singing psycho killer
My therapist he tells me something's different
He seems afraid that I will go mad
But I don't see no reasons for that

The movies I watch should be banned
To protect society and the government
The books I read contain doubtful contents
About murdering while shutting off your conscience

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I used to skin my cats when I was young
Some time later I started with arson
Along the way I bought me some guns
That I own to show off and to hunt

And though all of my neighbours disappeared
Underneath my house there's really nothin weird
One might say I'm quite a normal person
Just forget about the animals and arson

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'The lyrics of I Used To Skin! don’t tell about murder, but are about some guy who showed similar behaviour in his younger years as much of today’s serial killers did when they were young. The person in the song knows he’s been killing his neighbours and buried them underneath his house, but he denies it. The music, vocal melody and overall atmosphere remind me a bit of a French chanson. Although Skin My Cats! has been done much live since its debut performance on June 29, 2002, in later years I sometimes skipped it. For instance, it wasn't played at all at the Misanthropic Winter! 2008 gigs. But on April 19, 2008, the song returned on the set list and has been on most of them since.'

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from Reload Your Gun!, released August 23, 2002
Danny Ramirez - acoustic rhythm guitar, acoustic lead guitar, vocals

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Danny Ramirez Leiden, Netherlands

Danny Ramirez is a singer-songwriter from the Netherlands and the guitar player for stonerdoom band Toner Low! Besides playing morbid folk he has some one-man bands as well, but most of his releases are Ramirez EPs! Danny did solo gigs in the Netherlands, Finland, France and Germany, and played with a.o. Amigo The Devil, Bob Wayne, Joe Buck Yourself (Hank III) and The Goddamn Gallows! ... more

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