| Emilie Autumn – Mad Girl Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I believe that in one of the fan chats, EA said this song has three meanings. I think one of them has to do with Sylvia Plath (one of her villanelles is called Mad Girl's Love Song). Plath's father died when she was eight, so the lines about the mad girl's father fit into Plath's life, since she was too young to know what kind of man her father was. The lines about the "bottle of nothing" remind me of the way Plath's semi-autobiographical character Esther describes her deteriorating mental state as being trapped in a suffocating bell jar. And "death is but a dream" is another allusion to The Bell Jar, in which the main character (Esther) spends the majority not fully understanding/appreciating death (it's been a while since I read the book, but I remember a scene where she's in a hospital or something, and prides herself on not freaking out at the dead bodies and gruesome images). There are probably more connections to be made, but I think I need to read more of Plath's poetry first. And reread The Bell Jar. | |
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