| Tori Amos – Digital Ghost Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think the first few lines are the most important, ('It started as a joke, just one of my larks to see if somehow I could reach you'). Whoever she is singing to is somone she knows and is obviously cut off from reality, so she attempts to reach him through the internet and realizes just how lonely he is ('I swam into your shores through an open window, only to find you all alone'). Despite her desire to bring him back into reality where she is, she continues using the internet to communicate with him ('Find me there in it, I won't go even if in your heart beats 1s and 0s') because she knows its, in a way, keeping him "alive". It's almost ironic in a way. She's using this internet persona ('this digital ghost') to communicate with someone and keep him from being lonely, when it's his addiction to the lonely digital world, and Tori's internet persona, that's keeping him in that state ('just take a closer look at what it is that's really haunting you'). I think that despite this, she'd rather keep his heart beating by reaching out to him through the internet than let him slip away from her completely, and she hopes that he'll snap out of it on his own ('...pull you from that rip current but only you can fight this') That's my take on the song, anyway. Amazing song either way. |
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