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Where was this song dreamed up? Who is gasping for air? This one has troubled me for other reasons. I cannot find a reference to a killing jar that satisfies me for an explanation.

Google Search typically produces the following three types of hits:

In 1996 a film entitle "The Killing Jar" came out. I never saw it but it starred Tamlyn Tomita and Tom Bower (yeah I have no clue either)[:0]

Ever capture a firefly in jar when you were a kid....yep that is called a killing jar. She mentions fireflies coming out of his eyes....[?]

Oh yeah a really cool band from the U.K. comes up a lot.[;)]

So what is the song about? Who is in the jar? Who is the ugly man...is he the same that is gasping for air? Who has the hand around the killing jar?



The Killing Jar
Down where this ugly man
Seeks his sustenance
Down in the blue, midnight flare
A glass hand cuts through the water
Scything into his twisted roots
Then from his eyes
Spring fireflies
Breathing life
Into a roaring disguise

Needles and sins, sins and needles
He's gasping for air
In the wishing well
Dust to rust, ashes to gashes
Hand around the killing jar

A soft hoodwink of shadow
The size of make-believe
Punches through his spike of rage
A glass hand cuts through the water
Snuffing out the magic fury

Then from inside
Bolt lightning cries
Swiftly crushed
The final, muffled sighs

Needles and sins, sins and needles
He's gasping for air
In the wishing well
Dust to rust, ashes to gashes
Hand around the killing jar

"Ever capture a firefly in jar when you were a kid....yep that is called a killing jar."

For the most part. Commonly used by entomologists and butterfly/moth collectors. The insects are sealed in a jar along with some sort of chemical that kills them w

Huh. I always thought it was clearly about heroin addiction.

[quote][i]Originally posted by ExRat[/i]
<br>Huh. I always thought it was clearly about heroin addiction.
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