"Our Darling Daughter You Are, Little Cecilia Marie"

"Our Darling Daughter You Are, Little Cecilia Marie" is a song by the American musician Claudio Sanchez under his solo project, The Prize Fighter Inferno. It is the third song on the project's 2006 debut album My Brother's Blood Machine.

Lyrics
[Verse 1] To your knees with this daily passion You don't feel anything You couldn't race a knife across him Would you dare ask anyone to?

Take away all the blame What if you aren't responsible? Would it ease this life a little, to see him buried instead?

[Verse 2] The sweat off your back now sticks to the carpet As he pulls himself out from the press "You couldn't have asked for a better father" The words once expressed from your mouth

Now, eat them away, or take to the grave "You're a pretty girl, honey" If he would just die, then I might be happy Mother?

[Chorus] (You look ill...) So count to sleep, my dearest Martha (Should no one know...) You know you should, but you won't leave Arthur

(You held still...) Would it not be for you, then please, for the children? 'Cause if you won't, they will, if you don't, they will Maybe for them, maybe them

[Verse 3] This is the last time you'll say "in the shower" As your blood curves a path when mixed with the water I'll do it myself, so it's done

To the right of all ways, I will bury his grave I'm a pretty girl, funny Out from the woods, a light burns in shadow Unnoticed to a girl with a gun

[Chorus] (You look ill...) So count to sleep, my dearest Martha (Should no one know...) You know you should, but you won't leave Arthur

(You held still...) Would it not be for you, then please, for the children 'Cause soon they will, if you won't, they will Maybe for them, maybe them

So count to sleep, my dearest Martha You know you should, but you won't leave Arthur Would it not be for you, then please, for the children 'Cause if you won't, they will, if you don't, they will Maybe for them, maybe them

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.'''

Cecilia McCloud has had enough. Here, she is actually raped by her father, Arthur. Somehow, her mother knows or is actively confronted with the truth but plays dumb. This sows additional resentment into Cecilia. She gets a gun, and after her father tries again to assault her in the shower, she shoots and kills him. She makes for the woods, taking her twin brothers with her.

Trivia

 * This song had misspelled "Cecilia" on the back tracklisting as "Cecillia." The inside listing and lyrics all write it as Cecilia, so that is the spelling we're going with.