| Anaïs Mitchell – Before the Eyes of Storytelling Girls Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I can't believe no one's commented on this song yet. Anais is known for incorporating literature and journalism, but she outdoes herself on this one. With a line like "i could tell you stories like the government tell lies", how could you go wrong? I read that the song is about a middle-aged Egyptian woman. She calls on her "mother" Om Kalthoum, an immensely popular Egyptian singer, who used to give performances on the radio on Thursday nights. She also calls on her "grandmother', Scheherazade, the woman who married the sultan and spun the tales for one thousand and one nights. And finally, "in the rooms the women come and go talking on the mobile phones" is a nearly direct quote from T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". |
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