I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
She's a little lost girl in her own little world
She looks so happy but she seems so sad
Ah ah oh yea oh oh oh yea
She's a little lost girl in her own little world
I'd like to help her I'd like to try
Ah ah oh yea oh oh oh yea
She talks to birds she talks to angels
She talks to trees she talks to bees
She don't talk to me
Talks to the rainbows and to the seas
She talks to the trees
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
You know she drives me outta my mind
You know she drives me outta my head
She talks to birds
She's a little lost girl in her own little world
She looks so happy but she seems so sad
Ah ah oh yea oh oh oh yea
She's a little lost girl in her own little world
I'd like to help her I'd like to try
Ah ah oh yea oh oh oh yea
She talks to birds she talks to angels
She talks to trees she talks to bees
She don't talk to me
Talks to the rainbows and to the seas
She talks to trees
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
She looks so happy but she seems so sad
Ah ah oh yea oh oh oh yea
She's a little lost girl in her own little world
I'd like to help her I'd like to try
Ah ah oh yea oh oh oh yea
She talks to birds she talks to angels
She talks to trees she talks to bees
She don't talk to me
Talks to the rainbows and to the seas
She talks to the trees
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
You know she drives me outta my mind
You know she drives me outta my head
She talks to birds
She's a little lost girl in her own little world
She looks so happy but she seems so sad
Ah ah oh yea oh oh oh yea
She's a little lost girl in her own little world
I'd like to help her I'd like to try
Ah ah oh yea oh oh oh yea
She talks to birds she talks to angels
She talks to trees she talks to bees
She don't talk to me
Talks to the rainbows and to the seas
She talks to trees
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
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Great version of a great song,
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this is a great song. i feel like the girl in the song.
its about a girl that have built up a wall around here and don't let anyone help her. she's just in here one world, talking to everything but the one who wanna help her.
Know that this a very old post, but you have this absolutely correct. Have a friend that was exactly as you described and this was her one of her favorite songs. And I say "was" because she committed suicide in 2008 :(
I love this song. It's about a girl who seems to live in her own reality, shunning others. She may appear to be happy but really she's deeply troubled, which is why she prefers to live in her own world. Beautiful song.
cant believe more people havent commented this song! its just so pretty! i think its pretty self explanatory, a a boy loves a troubled girl who does not open up to him. instead she lives in her own dream world, talking to the birds, trees, rainbows etc. its just so beautiful
The Ramones are divine-RIP Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee. You're all too tough to die
As for the song, shit its good. It's got such a poignant and humane meaning. I often do feel lost and I have an overactive imagination and talk to things. I also wanna help out both guys and girls who are feeling the way of the girl in this song. I'm sure Joey often felt that way
i totally agree with river wolf... i'm sure joey felt that way very often. he was so optimistic, but very to himself and probably found himself in a beautiful place, alone, talking to the rainbows and angels and trees.
No he encontrado nada mejor que describa como me siento con mi pequeña Princesa, ademas de ser una de sus canciones favoritas; ella vive en su mundo de colores y no se deja ayudar a conocer el mundo real. De todas maneras la amo.
I never found a song that describes as well as this one the way I feel about my little princess, and this is one of her favourite songs; se lives at her rainbow world and will never let me help her to see the real world. Anyway I love her.
debe haber un millon de personas que se sienten como ella.
One of the most touching songs I ever heard. A true latter-day gem.
spelling mistake: her not here
great lyrics. but not the greatest ramones song.