new lyrics: scissorman

Snip, snap — morality cuts both ways.
’scissorman‘ brings a gruesome fairy-tale figure to life in the stomping rhythm and sinister tone of a modern electronic music track. inspired by the legendary character from Heinrich Hoffmann’s 19th-century cautionary tale in ‚Der Struwwelpeter‘, this song gives voice to a merciless enforcer of order, who punishes disobedience with cold precision.

the creative driver for this track was the absurd cruelty often embedded in moral instruction for children. ’scissorman‘ plays with the idea of discipline taken to sadistic extremes, turning the warnings of well-meaning parents into something far more terrifying. by putting the listener inside the mind of the „tall tailor“ himself, the lyrics expose how punishment can become pleasure when rules are followed blindly and justice becomes an obsession. with its playful rhyme and brutal message, ’scissorman‘ is both a grim nursery rhyme and a satire on authoritarian control. after all, what’s more dangerous, the naughty child, or the one who takes joy in cutting them down? check it out now.