"Billy Radcliffe"

SUBJECT: Not sure. Probably based on some obscure sci-fi book, I'd guess.

LYRICS:
Billy Radcliffe didn't go to town and when we looked up he was looking right down catching blue in his eyes that were brown Billy Radcliffe / Billy Radcliffe owned by the state form his first breath to the cementery gate he was the first boy born in space Billy Radcliffe / Billy Radcliffe very first one he really had lived just a cursed son a split in half man sung the cherubim Billy Radcliffe / Billy Radcliffe saw what the Devil man saw a spot of blue in the blank of the eye of the Lord such a cruel love is the kind that wrought Billy Radcliffe / Billy sadly didn't live long he had to stay there because he wasn't too strong he's stepping out of the door blowing up like a bomb Billy Radcliffe / Billy Radcliffe very first one really a hatched man a light switched son a split in half man sang the cherubim Billy Radcliffe very first one a split in half man sang the cherubim i bet you cried when he died now didja, now didja? / now Billy Radcliffe saw what the Devil man saw a spot of blue in the blank of the eye of the Lord now Billy Radcliffe saw what the Devil had and i feel very bad for William Radcliffe

DEFINITIONS:
cherubim
\Cher"u*bim\, n. The Hebrew plural of Cherub.
1. A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in --Ezekiel i. and x. I knew that they were the cherubim. --Ezek. x. 20. He rode upon a cherub and did fly. --Ps. xviii. 10. 2. A symbolical winged figure of unknown form used in connection with the mercy seat of the Jewish Ark and Temple. --Ez. xxv. 18. 3. One of a order of angels, variously represented in art. In European painting the cherubim have been shown as blue, to denote knowledge, as distinguished from the seraphim (see Seraph), and in later art the children's heads with wings are generally called cherubs. 4. A beautiful child; -- so called because artists have represented cherubs as beautiful children.

LIVE: yes, not all that often, though

ACOUSTIC: yes