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Lullabies for Serial Killers

by Byrdy Wolfe

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1.
Go to Bed, Ted 02:57
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before i know it it’s two o’clock in the morning i need to go to bed i didn’t show any emotion because what am i supposed to do? what’s the right way for ted bundy to behave? i showed no emotion i felt emotion, believe me i was beside myself with rage i kept it together because there’s no point in destroying myself i’ve got to stay calm i’ve got to keep my presence of mind i’ve restrained myself every time i couldn’t do it this time people say ted bundy didn’t show any emotion there must be something in there you know what people said? see he really can get violent and angry but i don’t know why i can’t begin to understand why i can’t even begin to understand the mentality i don’t understand the motivation the loss of a loved one is probably the most extreme kind of loss you can suffer in this life i feel as much for them as anybody can not having gone through that myself no man is truly innocent i am not guilty ever physically harmed anyone? no
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Good Night, Night Stalker 03:13
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we are all evil in some form or another are we not? the world has been fed many lies about me i have read very few truths who are you? i’m just a guy just a guy evil has always existed i believe in the evil in human nature i have felt powers that are evil yes, i am evil not a hundred percent but i am evil serial killers do on a small scale what governments do on a large one they are a product of the times and these are bloodthirsty times you didn’t kill 13 people? that is correct this is a wicked, wicked world in a wicked world, wicked people are born there are desires where if i didn’t give into them i would be crushed by them i’m not going to blame society my race or people or anything i definitely do not feel sorry for myself i don’t care about what happens to me i never did really even psychopaths have emotions if you dig deep enough but then again, maybe they don’t i’ll tell you what, i gave up on love and happiness a long time ago
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Feel Calmer, Dahmer 03:18
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i don’t know what started it i still don’t understand it started out as a childhood curiosity and something went wrong i didn’t know how to tell anyone about it kept it all inside had to do a lot of lying a lot of pretending i felt i could keep it in my own secret little world where i could completely control a person i tried to stop it just seemed like it had control of my life i couldn’t rid myself of it i can’t think of anything that would have stopped me it was too powerful and persistent there was no use trying to fight it and it was the only thing that gave me any any satisfaction the desire was i wanted to keep something of the person with me it made me feel like they were a permanent part of me not easy to say that, but that’s that’s what the motive was i feel it’s uh wrong for people who to try to shift the blame onto somebody else that’s just a cop out the person to blame is sitting right across from you that’s the only person i could not undo the terrible harm i have caused i don’t know how to express the regret, the sorrow how do you feel about what you did? i’m glad that it’s over
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Tame Your Temper, Kemper 03:17
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i’m an american and i went off the deep end there was a great hole in my life there was a lot missing and it didn’t necessarily mean feelings i had walled off this emptiness in my life i had an upbringing some have called dysfunctional i was always called stupid i was called slow don’t you think when you do things? that was the problem i wasn’t thinking i had absolutely no faith in myself i was not a thinker i was not an individual outside, i looked troubled at times other times, serene i was raging inside i could feel it consuming my insides fantastic passion it was like drugs, like alcohol a little isn’t enough as you adjust to that psychologically and physically you take more and more and more i was losing a grasp on something that was too violent to keep inside forever it was going to happen i didn’t see it then but it was going to happen i was playing a dangerous game with a loaded gun and it got us all she judged me not to be that guy i didn’t look like him we could say it was something that simple i don’t think it was now would you get in the car with this man, huh?
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Sweet Dreams, Aileen 03:14
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no i wasn’t born bad everybody’s looking at the number this world is nothing but evil and all of us are full of evil, one way or another we have evil in us, all of us do my evil happened to come out because of circumstances of what i was doing i’m really sorry about everything i’ve done think first about the people that lost their loved ones cuz i have to put them in first on this whole thing i’m really sorry for them losing their loved ones i take full responsibility for my actions i am sorry for all the pain that my actions have caused i am prepared to die if you say it is necessary i have made peace with my lord and i have asked forgiveness i know where i’m going i’m gonna be with the lord you can believe it or you don’t have to believe it that’s up to you man if i was to, uh, leave this planet wouldn’t be no big deal to me cuz, uh, this is a wicked, wicked world i didn’t wanna kill anybody i didn’t i wouldn’t hurt anybody man i wouldn’t hurt no one i’d help them i’m not a cold blooded killer i wish it never would’ve happened if i could turn the hands of time around and do this over i know i wouldn’t kill em this is the last time i’m gonna say it you have to kill aileen wuornos cuz she’ll kill again
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Lie Down, Scary Clown 03:25
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i’m just as loveable and jokeable as i was back then I am at peace with myself my dad always said i was stupid, would never amount to anything so anything that i got involved with i always put 110% into it you’re gonna get involved in something, do it right i was involved in politics, community services i was honored as man of the year in Springfield Illinois when i got into clown makeup, i regressed into childhood i could put on clown makeup and i was relaxed that’s why i always enjoyed clowning clowning has taken a bad name because of what they’ve used in my case people don’t wanna to know the truth and the honesty of it if they want to be convinced they’re brainwashed into what they believe then fine, then go ahead and kill me as you will have executed somebody that didn’t commit the crime i don’t sit around worrying about the death penalty or things like that, no a lot of things that my dad did i refuse to do i don’t believe in hitting and spoiling a child either if you want to charge me with anything charge me with complicity in two of the murders just two? that’s all i know about that’s how it happened always have a chance encounter there was no organization there was no planning there was no manipulation don’t look at me as an innocent babe of the woods aren’t you afraid sittin' that close? they make it sound like i slept in the crypts with em and i never climbed into a coffin or anything like that that is so damn ridiculous and besides the dead won’t bother you it’s the living you gotta worry about

about

As a child, I developed a fascination with the psychology of serial killers. I wanted to be the next greatest FBI profiler who could stop them. In college, I wrote a report about John Wayne Gacy. One night, I dreamt he was chasing me. In the wake of my nightmare, I recalled a part of Nietzche’s infamous quote “...and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” That semester, I changed my minor to music history, sold my collection of serial killer related books and never spoke about them for over a decade.

With the recent influx of newer films about several infamous serial killers, I decided it was safe to explore the topic again. While watching them, something ubiquitous materialized in my mind. There was no mention of their musical tastes. My curiosity did not end there, and I started to ponder something more specific. What music would their inner child gravitate towards? Memories of maternal figures, whether in real life or on TV, who would sing their babies to sleep, flashed in my mind. I wondered, would the soothing power of a lullaby have calmed the storm brewing within them?

Somehow, evil manifested itself inside them and morphed into a relentless compulsion that controlled their every thought, rendering them prisoners of their own minds and desires. A small sense of sympathy rooted itself inside me, not for the adults we all have come to know, but for their inner child that, I feel, never had a voice. I don’t believe there are late in life killers. I feel disturbances begin in childhood. Children seem to be the perfect soil for something to flourish, allowing a seed to equally become a tomato or a venus fly trap. The age-old debate of whether or not evil is created or born still fascinates me to this day. This album is my exploration of that, and I will leave it up to you, dear listener, to decide for yourself what you believe.

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released November 30, 2021

Production: Byrdy Wolfe
Mixing: Wolfebomb Studios
Mastering: Wolfebomb Studios
Cover art: Gloria Aitken, Instagram: @gloriaaitkenart

For vocal credits, please refer to the individual song.

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Byrdy Wolfe Jacksonville, Florida

My beloved great aunt had a fondness for horror fiction and films. Both my music and artist name serve as an homage to her memory. May she rest in peace.

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