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St. Vincent – Surgeon Lyrics 14 years ago
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
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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