Dragula by Rob Zombie

Introduction

I recently published a story on a Pink Floyd song, which you can read here.

It was suggested I do a similar piece on "Dragula" by Rob Zombie.

My piece was essentially about extrapolating what the five words and a scream were about in the Pink Floyd piece, the"Dragula" piece will have to be different because there are a lot more words to jump off from, but this will be a stream of consciousness jumping off at random points from Rob Zombies lyrics.

This is it.

DRAG-U-LA

The title came from the name of Grandpa Munster's eponymous dragster DRAG-U-LA on The Munsters.

It was debut solo single by American rock musician Rob Zombie released in August 1998 as the lead single from his solo debut "Hellbilly Deluxe".

Since its release it has become Zombie's most recognizable song as a solo artist. It is also his best-selling song.

The audio clip "superstition, fear and jealousy" heard at the beginning of the song is a sample of dialogue from the 1960 horror film The City of the Dead (also known as Horror Hotel), and is spoken by Christopher Lee.

The song is relentless and there is no doubt that "Dragula" is a vehicle.

Dig through the ditches and burn through the witches

I slam in the back of my Dragula

Rob Zombie has dispensed with the hyphenation of Grandpa Munster's ride. Here is the story of it:

Herman lost the Munsters Koach in a drag race. Grandpa builds his own racer, the Drag-u-la.

So Rob Zombie took the name and transformed it into something far more vicious than its initial incarnation, although drag racing itself is a pretty extreme sport.

Drag racing started in the 1940s. World War II veterans were prominently involved, and some early drag races were done at decommissioned aircraft bases with landing strips that made them an ideal place for the sport.

In 1951, Wally Parks formed the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA). The organization banned the use of nitromethane in 1957, calling it unsafe The ban was lifted in 1963

Several other racing organizations were created over the past several decades, such as the Professional Drag Racers Association (PDRA) founded in 2014.

The song is as relentless as a drag racer and makes you feel as though you are likely to be run down, maybe in the fashion of "Death Race 2000". When I saw that film it was as far in the future to me as it is now in the past to us all.

The music video shows Rob Zombie driving the Munster Koach (not the actual Dragula racing car) with various shots of the band members and different scenes from movies, e.g. "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" at the beginning of the video and the killer robot from the old movie chapter serial "The Phantom Creeps".

This song has been a staple of many video games, films and TV shows but I have been unable to track down which ones, but it is very similar to the experimental death metal AI song I created for a recent dark poem.

Dead I am the one

Exterminating son

These opening words to the song make us fear an avenging dark vampire or zombie, unkillable because it is already dead and wants to take us with it in a voracious storm of blood and bone, leaving the survivors wishing they had not been left because what will happen to them will be worse.

Conclusion.

I said this would be very stream of consciousness and it has taught be a lot I didn't know, about a song I had never heard.

Thank you for sticking with me, and I hope you have enjoyed this