"The Margretville Dance"

The Album Art by Bill Scoville.

**"The Margretville Dance"** is a song by the American musician Claudio Sanchez under his solo project, The Prize Fighter Inferno. It is the fifth song and second single on the project's 2006 debut album *My Brother's Blood Machine*.

## Lyrics

**[Verse 1]**

Between you and me

How cautious we have become

Leaving it hooked and off the floor

To think, the better you might have known...

With age

With every breath

You wake, a picture instilled the way

I wish you had lived, with cause through pain

No matter, you died the same...

Machine

**[Chorus]**

So, tell me like you want to

*(Here they come to rock your body all night)*

If you want me too

*(Here they come to rock your body all night)*

So, tell me like you want to

*(Here they come to rock your body all night)*

If you want me too

*(Here they come to rock your body all night)*

So, tell me like you want to

*(Here they come to rock your body all night)*

If you want me too

*(Here they come to rock your body all night)*

**[Verse 2]**

When who's to blame

In a matter of fact I might

Purely suggest we tell the truth

From here on out, we walk the straight...

Afraid

What will they do

Should we weather this new reply?

Or patiently wait your proper end

From shameless motive to hollow sin

*(I'll wait)*

**[Chorus]**

So, tell me like you want to

*(Here they come to rock your body all night)*

If you want me too

*(Here they come to rock your body all night)*

So, tell me like you want to

*(Here they come to rock your body all night)*

If you want me too

*(Here they come to rock your body all night)*

So, tell me like you want to

*(Here they come to rock your body all night)*

If you want me too

*(Here they come to rock your body all night)*

So, tell me like you want to

*(Here they come to rock your body all night)*

If you want me too

*(Here they come to rock your body all night)*

**[Bridge]**

'Cause I don't want you to come around here

I just want you to go

I don't want you to come around here

I just want you to know

Is this the way you, is this the way you

Is this the way you watch the body die?

Is this the way you, is this the way you

Is this the way you watch the body die?

**[Outro]**

*('Cause I don't want your...)*

I said, love before you rot

*('Cause I don't want your...)*

I said, love before you rot

*('Cause I don't want your...)*

## Story Context

> Main article: My Brother's Blood Machine (comic)

**As the official story has not yet been released, anything in this section is speculation, not fact. More so than usual, of course.**

This seems to be describing The Bleam Family's Blood Machine. The Bleam matriarch has been "given a vision by God" that her sons, Long-Arm and Butchie, have to become the world's new Death and collect souls. They construct the Blood Machine to thoroughly shred the body of their victims, thus leaving no doubt that the soul has been released. They refer to killing (or more specifically, going through the machine) as a dance or dancing.

## Trivia

* The single of this song was originally released on MySpace under the title, "The Margretville *Town* Dance".

## References

1. ↑ The Prize Fighter Inferno. Booklet. *My Brother's Blood Machine*, Equal Vision Records, 2006.
2. ↑ https://genius.com/The-prize-fighter-inferno-the-margretville-dance-lyrics