| The Dresden Dolls – Backstabber Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Btw: heard the Ad Frank song posted above. He should stick to songwriting and never go out in public, let alone perform. Ever. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Backstabber Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Ha ha ha... forgot I posted on this one. I guess I changed my mind, huh? | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Backstabber Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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So... this is my interpretation, take it or leave it: In the "Live at the Roundhouse" dvd, Amanda dedicates the song to "the man." I take the subject of this song not to be a single person, but the record label that the Dolls left. "The record goes from blue to gold, so thank you for all your help," sorta points to that, I think. I also think that the first stanza is the strongest part that points to their label. After "all their help" when the Dolls' album is a success, Amanda is telling the label to either back off and let them have creative freedom, or "fight me." Some of the lines that personify the label as one person are just extended metaphor and aren't really talking about just one person, for example "you only sleep with girls who say they like your music," indicates that the label sold out, not that they actually slept with those girls. Amanda does this a lot in her songs and I think it confuses people. One line out of the whole song usually doesn't mean exactly what it says. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Sing Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song works on a few levels. As simple and, some may say, corny as the lyrics themselves may be, I think this is a beautiful song by DD and it happens to be one of my favorites, if only because of the idea behind the song. I won't criticize anyone else's interpretation because Amanda herself has said that just because your interpretation of a song, piece of art, etc. isn't what the artist intended, doesn't mean you're wrong. Personally, I take the song to be about expression in general. Amanda's main mode of expression is music, thus she's writing a song about singing. Anyone can do it, it doesn't take some special talent. All you gotta do is open up those lips and pass air over your vocal cords. Simple as that. I think she just wants us to express ourselves, to open up, to act in some way that shows we care about these things (the president, the media, your Nazi of a teacher, the soccer mom who lives down the street, ANYTHING). She seems to be calling out to us to just DO something, especially since some people refuse to act or to care ("Sing for the kid with the phone who refuses to sing") This interpretation is why I'm getting the word "Sing" tattooed on my back. :) I wish people would just fucking SING! |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Coin-Operated Boy Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| You know, if there happens to be a website that the artist actually posts the true intentions of the song's lyrics on (http://www.dresdendolls.com/main1.htm), maybe it would be a good idea to CHECK the website before posting nonsense and insulting others' ideas. Christ. | |
| The Aquabats – I Fell Asleep On My Arm Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| A friend of mine is a big fan of Aquabats and he rattled off the whole list of which bands they were parodying. I don't remember them all, but people mentioned a few, Limp Bizkit, Korn, and Linkin Park, but they also did Rage Against the Machine (the corporate America part) and Papa Roach, I think. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Mandy Goes to Med School Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song has a couple of elements. The main one is speaking of back alley abortions, as most people think, but it also references illegal sex-changes as well, both of which are things that Amanda has obviously written about before. Basically, she's writing as if she is one of those shady, unethical doctors that preys upon desperate people, people who can't afford medical procedures, supposedly "elective" ones like gender-reassignment and those young girls who can't go to their parents and admit that they're pregnant. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Bad Habit Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Sounds like cutting. "Happiness is just a gash away," and a bunch of other pain related lines. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Dirty Business Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"masticate" refers to chewing a girl up and spitting her out. Using her, more or less. I thought that was an obvious one. I think maybe the song is an over-arching reference to relationships and how cold and conniving people can be in them. Some people reduce it to a business transaction and play head games to get ahead of the competition. Just my interpretation. ;) |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Delilah Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Seems pretty straightforward. A friend who's impossible to reform from her self-destructive ways. I have a friend exactly like this. She's manic-depressive, but thankfully she's finally seeking help. Seems like "Girl Anachronism" from an outsider's point of view, rather than inside the girl's head. | |
| The Dresden Dolls – Backstabber Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Well, it does seem as though it's directed to a certain person. I would guess it was a former musical partner, because of the lines "but you’ve got no right to sit there saying I abuse it/ when you only sleep with girls who say they like your music." Although, she could be criticizing other pretentious or lame artists. Not sure. | |
| Amanda Palmer – Runs in the Family Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Check out the pictures attached to the song lyrics on Amanda's site for each of these songs: http://www.whokilledamandapalmer.com/album They're the best way to interpret the lyrics, because she put them there. Although the pictures are still pretty cryptic themselves. |
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| Amanda Palmer – Have to Drive Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's weird, but I think this song is about roadkill. Seriously. Check the link above and look at the pictures for yourself. ^ | |
| Amanda Palmer – Have to Drive Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Check out the pictures attached to the song lyrics on Amanda's site for each of these songs: http://www.whokilledamandapalmer.com/album They're the best way to interpret the lyrics, because she put them there. (The ones for this song are really cryptic, though. At least I think so.) |
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| Amanda Palmer – Guitar Hero Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Check out the pictures attached to the song lyrics on Amanda's site for each of these songs: http://www.whokilledamandapalmer.com/album They're the best way to interpret the lyrics, because she put them there. |
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| Amanda Palmer – Blake Says Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Check out the pictures attached to the song lyrics on Amanda's site for each of these songs: http://www.whokilledamandapalmer.com/album They're the best way to interpret the lyrics, because she put them there. |
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| Amanda Palmer – Another Year: A Short History of Almost Something Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Check out the pictures attached to the song lyrics on Amanda's site for each of these songs: http://www.whokilledamandapalmer.com/album They're the best way to interpret the lyrics, because she put them there. |
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| Amanda Palmer – Ampersand Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Check out the pictures attached to the song lyrics on Amanda's site for each of these songs: http://www.whokilledamandapalmer.com/album They're the best way to interpret the lyrics, because she put them there. |
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| Amanda Palmer – What's The Use Of Wond'rin' (feat. Annie Clark) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Amanda's website has a page for each track with pictures attached at the end of the lyrics for each song, supposedly to tell the listener what the song's about. Most of them are pretty cryptic, but the pictures for this song are very obvious. They are all pictures of battered women and statistics of domestic abuse. The lines "And something gave him the things that are his/ One of those things is you" really creep me out now after finding out what the song meant. |
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| Amanda Palmer – Blake Says Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Amanda has said in her bio from the time she was recording WKAP that it was her see-how-many-Velvet-Underground-references-I-can-fit-into-one-song song (pretty much word for word what she said). The name Caroline in the song is a reference to a Velvet Underground song called Caroline Says. There are tons more, too, I'm sure. Further than that, I don't know what she meant by this one. Although, I can say that I don't think it has much to do with drugs. Just because it mentions angel dust doesn't mean Blake's an addict. Rather, the line "Blake thinks angels grow when you plant angel dust" refers to how naive Blake is about such things. |
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| Amanda Palmer – Another Year: A Short History of Almost Something Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I hate it when people jump to drug addiction or suicide as the possible meanings for songs (just as too many people assume certain songs are about masturbation for some reason) but I think this time, that suicide seems like an appropriate interpretation. "i tried to fall in it again my friends took bets and disappeared they mime their sighing violins i think i'll wait another year" The first line almost sounds like she tried to drown herself, or "fall" into her drinking habits, as she's said she drinks too much sometimes ("it's not as bad when I don't drink"). The third line sounds as if her friends acted like she was putting on a show by being depressed. You know, the whole smallest-violin-in-the world-playing-for-you bit. The repeated "i think i'll wait another year" seems to indicate that she's going to give life another shot and she wants her friend/lover/whomever she's singing to to "wait" with her to see if things get better, at least until next year. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Mrs. O. Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I looked this up, just to be sure and on the Dolls' site, there is a letter posted that was written by a little girl named Virginia O'Hanlon (which is where Yes, Virginia came from, as well as the song's title. Mrs. O and Virginia are one and the same.) Virginia wrote to a newspaper many years ago asking if there was a Santa Claus, because her classmates had told her he didn't exist. The advice columnist she wrote to replied saying that there certainly was a Santa, simply because she believed in him (or something to that effect- others below have posted it already). The song is basically all wordplay and historical references, making fun of the fact that some people actually believe the holocaust was made up, just as Santa is. I also think that since it's Mrs. O and not Miss O, it may be referring to Virginia being grown up and having had to shed her little girl beliefs and optimism. The other idea i had is that the song is about living in blind faith and letting your beliefs cloud over the truth, at least in your own mind. Basically, because you don't believe in it, it never happened. I based that on the lines: "but you can stop the truth from leaking/ if you never stop believing... " |
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