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1* "Pure Love:"
2-->''Hey, what are you doing, my love?''
3-->''Hey, didn't I just tell you that such a thing would be over and above what's called for in this case?''
4-->''Pull the ski mask away from your face.''
5-->''It won't be necessary.''
6* "Cut Off Their Thumbs" is about a hostage situation that almost surely will not end well.
7* The terrifyingly calm narrator of "Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace."
8-->''"Someone will need to mop this floor for me."''
9* The live cover of Furniture Huschle's "Terror Song."
10* The last verse of "Autoclave:"
11-->''I dreamt that I was perched atop a throne of human skulls''
12-->''On a cliff above the ocean, howling wind and shrieking seagulls''
13-->''And the dream went on forever, one single static frame''
14-->'''''[[Series/{{Cheers}} Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name]]'''''
15* "New World Emerging Blues"
16-->''[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Someday, someday the earth will be black as tar]]''
17-->''[[DeathWorld Someday the earth will be as black as tar]]''
18-->''[[WhatYouAreInTheDark And we are gonna see each other the way we truly are]]''
19* "The Autopsy Garland:"
20-->''You don't want to see these guys without their masks on... or their gloves''
21** Understandable when you realize that the guys in question are doctors performing the titular autopsy.
22*** Actually, it's even worse given background context. According to [[WordofGod John's tumblr]] "The song is directly about the death of Judy Garland in London in 1969. Judy Garland met a lot of people throughout her life who treated her badly: who abused her from a very early age. In the hands of these people she never had a chance. These are the people who you do not want to see without masks."
23* "Song For My Stepfather" is just ''horrifying'', especially because of the last verse:
24-->''You can go ahead and hit him''
25-->''He feels no pain at all''
26-->''You erase me''
27-->''You erase me''
28* The completely unhinged narrator from "Werewolf Gimmick", starting with the very first line.
29-->''I was not there for rehearsal, '''[[BecomingTheMask I don't need it any more...]]'''''
30* "Toolshed", based on one of the alleged Satanic lyrics backmasked into Stairway To Heaven, tells the story of three kids coming into contact with something very, very sinister.
31-->''Back at the school, everyone looks like the enemy''
32-->''And we couldn't sleep''
33-->''[[HearingVoices And I had the voices inside of me]]''
34* "No Children" is a downer from start to finish, but the second verse is the bottom:
35-->''I hope it stays dark forever''
36-->''I hope the worst isn't over''
37-->''And I hope you blink before I do''
38-->''And I hope I never get sober''
39-->''And I hope when you think of me years down the line, you can't find one good thing to say''
40-->''And I hope that if I found the strength to walk out, you'd stay the hell out of my way!''
41* "'Family Happiness'" is very clearly taking place moments before something horrible happens.
42-->''Look at the person I've turned into, tell me how do you like him now?''
43-->''No standards of any kind to break, no creeds to disavow''
44-->''I am right here where you want me''
45-->''Do what you brought me out here for''
46-->''You can arm me to the teeth''

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