Nightmare Fuel / the Mountain Goats

• "Pure Love:"
  Hey, what are you doing, my love?
  Hey, didn't I just tell you that such a thing would be over and above what's called for in this case?
  Pull the ski mask away from your face.
  It won't be necessary.
• "Cut Off Their Thumbs" is about a hostage situation that almost surely will not end well.
• The terrifyingly calm narrator of "Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace."
  "Someone will need to mop this floor for me."
• The live cover of Furniture Huschle's "Terror Song."
• The last verse of "Autoclave:"
  I dreamt that I was perched atop a throne of human skulls
  On a cliff above the ocean, howling wind and shrieking seagulls
  And the dream went on forever, one single static frame
  Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name
• "New World Emerging Blues"
  Someday, someday the earth will be black as tar
  Someday the earth will be as black as tar
  And we are gonna see each other the way we truly are
• "The Autopsy Garland:"
  You don't want to see these guys without their masks on... or their gloves
  • Understandable when you realize that the guys in question are doctors performing the titular autopsy.
    • Actually, it's even worse given background context. According to 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."
• "Song For My Stepfather" is just horrifying, especially because of the last verse:
  You can go ahead and hit him
  He feels no pain at all
  You erase me
  You erase me
• The completely unhinged narrator from "Werewolf Gimmick", starting with the very first line.
  I was not there for rehearsal, I don't need it any more...
• "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.
  Back at the school, everyone looks like the enemy
  And we couldn't sleep
  And I had the voices inside of me
• "No Children" is a downer from start to finish, but the second verse is the bottom:
  I hope it stays dark forever
  I hope the worst isn't over
  And I hope you blink before I do
  And I hope I never get sober
  And I hope when you think of me years down the line, you can't find one good thing to say
  And I hope that if I found the strength to walk out, you'd stay the hell out of my way!
• "'Family Happiness'" is very clearly taking place moments before something horrible happens.
  Look at the person I've turned into, tell me how do you like him now?
  No standards of any kind to break, no creeds to disavow
  I am right here where you want me
  Do what you brought me out here for
  You can arm me to the teeth
  You can't make me go to war