| Cat Power – The Coat Is Always On Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Brother can't even speak He's got a tongue and two legs to walk on And he can leave Brother is old and grey Brother is old and grey Brother is old and grey And he's only He's only seventeen" i think this is a refernce to george orwell's "1984" |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Bad Habit Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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hey quite being fuckeheads. if you actually paid attention to anything amanda is saying. maybe you would notice this letter in the "hate-mail" section of the dresden dolls' website: "from a disgruntled fan, April 2005 hello. i have just read the lyrics to your song 'bad habit'. i would just like to ask you how you can justify writing a song that glorifies self harm like this? do you have any idea how many impressionable children your music will have an impact on? yes, children...do you want to be responsible for a load of CHILDREN getting into the vicious cycle of self harm because of a song that YOU wrote? lyrics like "when i open a familiar scar, pain goes shooting like a star, comfort hasn't failed to follow so far..." tell kids that if they want comfort they should cut themselves, how can you tell kids that?!? i can't express how fucking disgusted i am that you think this is a good song to put out there when people look to music to help them. i know that after saying all this, you probably won't reply but i would really like to know how you can sleep at night. amanda responds: You may find it enlightening and amusing to know that this song was actually not inspired by the idea of cutting oneself. I have this terrible habit of picking off the skin around my fingernails...with my teeth, with my nails, and occasionally with a sharp object lying around. I can see how you would interpret the lyrics that way, and I'm glad the song provoked you enough to write to us. There are plenty of people out there, many of them children, practicing real self harm that may actually find comfort in an artist expressing the anguish that accompanies any sort of self-destructive bad habit, and knowing that I may provide that comfort means that I sleep very well at night, indeed. p.s. "censorship is to art as lynching is to justice" - henry louis gates" anyways: here is the link for those of you who were too god damn lazy to find it for youselves: http://dresdendolls.com/closet/hatemail/index.htm she states clearly what the song means to her. and as she wrote it. i think her opinion on what the song means over rules all your face value opinions. love and peace. |
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