| Amanda Palmer – The Living Room Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think it's about both things - I remember hearing Amanda talk about how she was watching Baby Dee (the "angelic beating girl") playing at a venue and thinking it was like being at a church service, with all these believers in music gathered round. And since being in a church is often a place to commune with loved ones you've lost, music serves the same purpose with Ben ("he left his keys with you" - as in watching a musician perform opens the door to feeling close to Ben again). I think the parts about it being 'a long way out' and 'back into the end of harmony' are about how difficult it is to leave the music and the perfection of a concert behind and go back into real life, where there's no harmony, musical or literal. And that makes sense of the title 'The Living Room', which is of course a music venue but also the place where you feel like you're truly *living* and where you feel most peaceful. Leaving the venue is like leaving the comfort of your living room or house to go outside into the much scarier real world. The "if I never leave this chair, maybe I can go with you" line seems to say that she feels like if she keeps trying to prolong the concert and the music forever, never leaving, maybe she'll be able to go with Ben or get him back. Of course she can't - even if we try and "pour the magic in our coats", performance is so ephemeral that we can't stay there forever. | |
| Amanda Palmer – The Bed Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think the second half of the first verse goes: "Someone upstairs has a rap that we laugh at And people are drinking and singing about Scarborough Fair On a ukulele dare" Such a beautiful song. Amanda manages to imbue such simple images and incidents with such power. |
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| Amanda Palmer – Trout Heart Replica Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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But it can be about both. Like how 'Bad Habit' is about Amanda's habit of picking at her cuticles, but is also obviously meant to be about self-harm as well. And how 'Half Jack' was written about Amanda's father, but there are obviously references to gender dysphoria too. It's interesting to see where the lines blur. (I would wager that, since Amanda seemed to be going through the death of a relationship while this was being written, at least a bit of that will have leaked through with the death of the trouts...) |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Echo Gallery Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think you can get it from the Dirty Business Brigade site. | |
| Björk – New World Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think you're right about it referring to whatever comes after death - but I think it parallels Selma coming to America, the 'new world' - the first images seem so idyllic and with the 'dancers in line' makes me think it's the image of America that Selma got from seeing all the musicals? | |
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