| Anna Nalick – Drink Me Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Oh, I just figured this out listening to the song, and I believe that it's also supposed to be "I'll get smaller / With every swallow" rather than "I'll get smarter". Upon first reading through the lyrics, that made no sense to me what-so-ever. I just read through them again and couldn't recall hearing that line, which is because I've even been hearing it as "smaller". I even listened to that line over and over again, and the conclusion I've come to is that it does even sound more like "smaller", although the middle of the word is kind of quite and hard to discern. When the song is about the "Drink me" bottle in Alice in Wonderland, I think it would follow that the singer gets smaller with each swallow, as that's what the "Drink me" potion in Alice in Wonderland does. | |
| Anna Nalick – Drink Me Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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As AcidBurn said, it's based on Cathy from John Steinbeck's East of Eden, but it completely leaves out the significant evil of her character... It focuses more on when she grows old running her brothel and becomes afraid. Along with this, she becomes arthritic and loses the beauty she has had for her entire life. In the novel Cathy does wear poison about her neck, and actually recalls a time when she was a child and drank water pretending it was the "Eat Me" or "Drink Me" (not sure) from Alice and Wonderland, and that it would make her smaller and smaller and she had fantastic adventures. She always leaves a little bit of her Drink Me water left, because her safety net if she ever wanted was that drinking the entire bottle would make her disappear forever. Near the end of the novel when she drinks the poison that she keeps around her neck, this is what she is remembering and she is drinking all of the "Drink Me" to disappear forever. Given that there are not only other references to Alice in Wonderland, but it is based on a part of East of Eden that specifically has to do with Alice in Wonderland, I'm also quite sure that it is supposed to be "Alice" and not "Ellis". |
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