Superette were a Kiwi band with a very distinctively Kiwi name. They formed in 1993 with former JPSE member David Mulcahy, drummer Greta Anderson and Ben Howe.... and we now know Ben from 'Fang' and also 'White Swan Black Swan'. They released their only album 'Tiger' in 1996 and it was a beauty. Another classic from the legendary Flying Nun label. The single 'Killer Clown" is more than a great pop song.... it's subject material is the American serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who dressed as a clown for charity events and kids parties. When "Killer Clown" was released, it attracted enough interest for me to read a book on John Wayne Gacy and all I can say is.... "what a fucking sick piece of shit he was". The lyrics are well written and make a lot more sense when you know the story.
Killer Clown lyrics by Superette
Standing in the kitchen staring at the floor
Daddy's down the basement
talking to himself
He's getting drunk
I shrivel up
Hanging 'round the bus stop
staring at the kids
Think I'm gonna take one
make him lick my wick
And cut him up
To shut him up
Never killed nothing
Never hurt no one
Of the thirty three dead
I only touched one
I'm a killer clown
Sitting in a metal room
people watching me
Eighty minutes ticking by
fluid and it's me
I'm gonna die
I don't know why
Never killed nothing
Never hurt no one
Of the thirty three dead
I only touched one
Do you believe in me?
I'm a killer clown
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