Such a beautiful and disturbing song. Sufjan said about it: "I’m less interested in cause and effect, in terms of human iniquity. I believe we all have the capacity for murder. We are ruthless creatures. I felt insurmountable empathy not with his behaviour, but with his nature, and there was nothing I could do to get around confessing that, however horrifying it sounds." #crimeweekhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy 5