| St. Vincent – Surgeon Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The line came from one of Marilyn Monroe. In an interview with NPR, Annie Clark said, "I was reading Marilyn Monroe's journals, she wrote down the sentence, 'Best, finest surgeon – Lee Strasberg, come cut me open,' because she was studying with Lee Strasberg at the Actor's Studio at the time, and he was a tremendous mentor to her. And I just thought that was brilliant and really strange. I definitely wanted this particular song to sound like someone was kind of in a Benzedrine and white-wine coma – like a housewife's cocktail." |
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| St. Vincent – Surgeon Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The line came from one of Marilyn Monroe. In an interview with NPR, Annie Clark said, "I was reading Marilyn Monroe's journals, she wrote down the sentence, 'Best, finest surgeon – Lee Strasberg, come cut me open,' because she was studying with Lee Strasberg at the Actor's Studio at the time, and he was a tremendous mentor to her. And I just thought that was brilliant and really strange. I definitely wanted this particular song to sound like someone was kind of in a Benzedrine and white-wine coma – like a housewife's cocktail." |
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