THEA: WARNING: EXPLICIT LYRICS (well, just one word…Chad wanted it and I didn’t object, because this story is pretty horrific).

I’d watched a documentary about a “cold” case in Missouri (it’s not really “cold”, just…nobody’s saying what they know), about a man who terrorized a small town and eventually became the victim of vigilante justice when the legal system repeatedly failed to deal with him. Chad was already aware of the story (Chad is typically aware of everything before I am) and we agreed it would make a good story to tell with a rock backdrop.

Chad’s a bit of a metal head so he cooked up this Pantera reminiscent Suno recipe, which I love. We made one direction change—we just realized as we were working that it wasn’t quite graphic enough. So I came up with “a bloody windshield and an empty street”, and he came up with “a monster bleeding out in the driver’s seat”.

Very interesting documentary, by the way.