| The Zombies – She's Not There Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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In 1972, I met a girl down by the river in Knight’s Ferry. She told me she knew the meaning of this song, and I never doubted how she explained it to me. She said the song is about a rich girl who ran away from home because her parents never paid any attention to her. She wound-up in San Francisco, where she lived among the flower children. The guy who’s singing the song met her during the 1967 Summer of Love. She told him she was an orphan and had no family. They became very close, but she started using heroin and went downhill fast. The last time he saw her, he didn’t even recognize her. The girl he knew was gone. The song is about the guy meeting her father, who had come to find her. He tells the guy how wealthy he is, and how she went missing and her mother and sisters were devastated when the police couldn’t find her, and that it's all his fault. Dad says he wants to bring her home and things will be different. He wants to get to know his daughter. With that background, everything the guy tells the father makes perfect sense: He tells her dad that “no one told me about her, the way she lied, and how many people cried”, that “It’s too late to say you’re sorry. How would I know (you were looking for her) and why would I care?” Then the next two lines are obvious: he tells her dad, “Please don’t bother trying to find her” because the girl you’re looking for is “not there”. And since the dad ignored her, but this guy knew her well, maybe even loved her, he tells the father about the girl who is now lost to them both of them, and that’s the final verse of the song: “Well, let me tell you ‘bout the way she looked,” how she acted, her hair, her voice, her eyes. But that girl, the one I just described, is gone. “She’s not there.” |
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| The Zombies – She's Not There Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[ClickOKtoContinue:43859] You can't die from an LSD "overdose". LSD would be a poison but for your body rapidly producing neurotransmitters and other chemicals to counter-act those effects, so nothing happens for 3+ hours. When the LSD begins to break-down, you are left with a cascade of your own body chemicals that increase until the last of the LSD disappears. At the peak of the experience, there is no LSD left in your body. You won't die from your own neurotransmitters. So, pick another recreational drug that was common at the time. Barbiturate overdose frequently caused coma and death. That would be a better choice. More hip. |
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