| Public Image Ltd. – Annalisa Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song is about Anne Frank (Annelies "Anne" Marie Frank). It is written in part as a first-person narrative ("think I'm proud to be your enemy"). Anne died in Bergen-Belsen at age 15 from exhaustion and starvation ("starved to death in a waiting room"). The line "Take your hands off of me, you're worse than the thing that possessed me" refers to her nazi tormenters, which she associates with scabies, a skin disease that Anne contracted in the camp. "Somehow you used ignorance for sense" speaks about Anne's ability to transform ugliness and absurdity into the most beautiful thoughts : "Inspite of everything, I still believe that people are truly good at heart!”. |
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