"The Missing McCloud Boys"

"The Missing McCloud Boys" is a song by the American musician Claudio Sanchez under his solo project, The Prize Fighter Inferno. It is the tenth song and third single on the project's 2006 debut album My Brother's Blood Machine.

Lyrics
[Verse 1] In the days when children sung In the heart claimed, shattered sun You were right in telling them Where they were, beneath the snow

Space call God, right now Let them be judged upon What they've done to him, my son In the snow, before the sun

[Pre-Chorus] Please God, right now Please God, right now

[Chorus] If they could only say all the things they saw Would they? They were only boys With time, I create, invest—investigate Puzzle solved, belated

If they could only say all the things they saw Would they? They were only boys With time, I create, invest—investigate Puzzle solved, belated

[Verse 2] "Which one killed my boy?" My question to the incriminating convoy I want death and blood for my sons In the curse that warms the sun

[Pre-Chorus] Please God, right now Please God, right now

[Chorus] If they could only say all the things they saw Would they? They were only boys With time, I create, invest—investigate Puzzle solved, belated

If they could only say all the things they saw Would they? They were only boys With time, I create, invest—investigate Puzzle solved, belated

If they could only say all the things they saw Would they? They were only boys With time, I create, invest—investigate Puzzle solved, belated

If they could only say all the things they saw Would they? They were only boys...

Story Context
"" '''As the official story has not yet been released, anything in this section is speculation, not fact. More so than usual, of course.'''

This song is heavily debated. Did Long-Arm or Butchie die and Mama Bleam is upset, or did one of the McCloud Twins die and Martha is upset? It's really hard to tell. Perhaps both families lost a son, even. The fact that song's original title was "I'm Going to Kill You" and was changed to "The Missing McCloud Boys" may mean it was one or both of the McCloud Boys who was killed. This is further supported by the lines "You were right in telling them / Where they were, beneath the snow" which seems to imply multiple bodies, yet only one son was killed; or put another way, other bodies aside from the son that was killed. As the McCloud Twins had not been established killers by this point, it seems likely that the Bleams are the killers in this scenario.

Trivia

 * This song was originally titled, "I'm Going to Kill You".
 * This song was featured on the Equal Vision compilation "Inventing The Scene" in 2003 alongside Coheed and Cambria's "Elf Tower New Mexico".