The song closes with a fade-out of sinister laughter.
Despite its undoubted qualities - its stream-of-consciousness protest songs, heavy with drug references, are pitched somewhere between Bob Dylan and Love, tricked out with bursts of sinister electronics and luscious string arrangements - Cold Fact had vanished without a trace in the US: a state of affairs not helped when Rodriguez's record label Sussex, also home to Bill Withers, went bust.
We take this to mean that he was always the sinister, perverted, out-of-touch politician he is now.
The cast turns in an excellent ensemble effort as they reveal how each seemingly neutral incident in the story has a corresponding and more sinister explanation (adultery, out-of-wedlock birth, divorce, venereal disease, spending down an inheritance, mercy-killing).
Then, without warning, the suave cicerone becomes a garrulous rogue cabdriver, bearing you off on a series of sinister detours (out by the airport, and in the dead of night).
Twin Peaks, The Shining, Psycho: the pastel pink walls of out-of-town hotels often paper over a hotbed of sinister, sexualised weirdness.
As the rest of the world looked on in horror and amazement, the hostage crisis played itself out as a sinister comedy of ineptitude, a moral and military disaster whose ironies, to this day, are almost too excruciating to bear... Watching the events, we spectators were suffused with irony — the events seemed to have been staged for us as a movie of the week.
While Eggleston has disclaimed any desire to bring out the sinister side of American life, violence finds its way into even his most domestic scenarios, such as the shot of his young son Winston dressed in white overalls, poring over a handgun catalogue.
No, he's trying to keep out the sinister influence of the somewhat tasty South Korean Choco Pie.
Concocted out of a sinister blend of primal terror, childhood memory and urban legend, Freddy represented something authentically scary: the unconscious brought to literal, murderous life.
One of his colleagues added that Bavaria ought to refuse to send any delegates to Frankfurt and should pull out of the sinister coalition entirely.
