In his late teens Korn’s frontman, Jonathan Davis, worked as an assistant to a coroner. And one day a dead 11-month old baby was brought into the establishment. This is the same girl whom he is talking about throughout (when he isn’t referring to himself). And we are not compelled to go into details about what happened to her, as Jonathan gives a graphic-enough description in the first verse.
Then in the second verse he is baffled, as perhaps any sane human being would be, that someone could actually rationalize ‘stealing the life’ of this baby. Then his confusion turns into rage. For he is noticing two frustratingly-conflicting characteristics of this individual simultaneously. First is that, as the title implies, she has a “pretty face”. In other words, she is a beautiful baby. But this selfsame face also bears the physical scars of the harrowing ordeal she has been true.
Indeed even for him to bear witness to such is so traumatizing that in the bridge he likens it to his very soul being taken. Or stated differently, he has seen his fair share of BS in life, especially if we consider his profession and all. However, in the case of this little girl, he has come across what he classifies as “a real crime”. Or stated otherwise yet again, what happened to her was so heinous that his mind cannot process it.
Never-ending Nightmare
In fact when describing the history behind this track, Davis has stated that he ‘still has nightmare about’ that work-related experience. So this is sad song indeed. For not only did its primary subject suffer a gruesome fate, but even the person who is chronicling the situation has been negatively affected psychological from having to directly deal with it.
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