From Nashville Scene: "Leon Payne's "Psycho" (covered here by Jack Kittel) is a masterpiece of both gruesome excess and understatement. Payne is the author of such classics as "I Love You Because," "Lost Highway" and "They'll Never Take Her Love From Me." The song is a confession of sorts as its narrator calmly tells of dispatching his ex and her new beau, strangling a puppy, beating a little girl to death with a wrench and more hinted-at horrors. The put-away line comes in the chorus with the solemn (and rather rhetorical) question of, "Do you think I'm psycho, Mama?"
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