Doesn't this song sound like it's about about heroin? And the needle touched down... and the needle has landed... So that's why I never come back here That's why they spit out my name Your ex's have clawed up the bible Trying to keep me away

Sure its long, but Bethhoven's 5th is 30 minutes long and you don't see haters dissin him do ya? Sometimes you need to jam to get your point across. I guess you're just not ordinary people. and BTW - this blows away William Shatner's attempt to sing about Ordinary People!

I like it. Music can't be all songs and complete ideas. Sometimes a little musical landscape is in order!

I went through phases with this song, from creepy and disturbing to outright brilliant. I think I broke my obsession with it and settled on "excellent" when I finally understood it has nothing to do with Gacey the murderer. Think about Gacey the man. Everything about him seemed normal , yet he killed 27 people in a way that in his mind had some elements of love. The man was insane, but too often we think insanity develops in a vacuum. Did it start when the swingset hit his head and caused a blood clot? Or when his father was a drinker and his mother cried in bed each night ? He concludes with a reference to christian scriptures that says (paraphrased) we are all sinners, whether we steal money or kill 27 people. Think about the old addage about war criminals. Kill one man and you're a murderer. Kill 100,000 (a la charles taylor) and you become president. You become the law. Makes you wonder what happened to our "higher law". My difficulties in understanding this song actually spawned a novella I am writing about a hunt for a fugitive war criminal in West Africa. The man has elements of depravity and remorse mixed together, much like Gacey in this song.

While I generally don't like wilco, this Jesus, etc. stands out as one of my favorite songs. Glad to see Radio Paradise playing it. Another favorite of mine that I need to upload to the LRC is Flying Horses by Dispatch. The two songs strike a similar nerve for me.