Baby, You're Dead Inside

"Baby, You're Dead Inside" is a song off the Every Ape and His Brother album Winter Horrorland. It is a zombie-themed parody of the now-infamous 1940s tune "Baby, It's Cold Outside."

History
As "Baby, It's Cold Outside" became one of the most obnoxious overplayed tunes over the PA system at stores in Grand Ledge, MI; a sympathetic Dozerfleet founder assisted the receiving crew of the Grand Ledge Meijer store with coming up with new lyrics, to help them make the song's being overplayed every December more tolerable. However, the song's lyrics weren't finalized until around 9:28 AM EDT of Wednesday, May 12th of 2021. They were then published to the blog.

Story
Of all the songs on the album Winter Horrorland, this is one that specifically does not take place inside The Gerosha Chronicles. Most of the rest are either canon, or potentially canon.

In this song, highly inspired by the CW series iZombie, a woman inexplicably is zombified one December. She knows she's not the only one, and that a zombie apocalypse could be imminent. But fearing for her future, she heads to the home of a man with whom she was friendly in her past life. She begs to be let into his home, even if it means locking her in the basement and stealing brains from the morgue to keep her sated.

Sympathetic, the man eventually gives in. However, he warns her of every good reason he has to refuse to help her. The two of them most of all fear the National Guard coming after them. By the end, he realizes he can't betray a friend - even if she is a walking reanimated corpse. For to do so, he'd also, in a different sense, be "dead inside." She hints at this until the end, where their shared chorus makes the point more explicit.