| Amanda Palmer – Blake Says Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Bingo: Blake Brasher. http://www.infinitydayweekend.com/ Amanda said so, on Twitter. Check out his Andy Warhol hair. |
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| Amanda Palmer – Ampersand Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"The fire burned the block but ironically stopped at my apartment" Why is it ironic that the fire stopped at her apartment? "Lying in my bed I remember what you said There's no such thing as accidents" "You were awful adamant that if I didn't love you you would have just one alternative" Because he started it in order to kill her, because he's crazy. Very literal reading, I know. |
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| Amanda Palmer – Another Year: A Short History of Almost Something Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I never thought of this as being about suicide. Wow you guys are dark. I always thought of it in relation to her career or just things she wanted to do in life. I agree with Raphe, I thought of love as being the thing she tried to fall in again, but I always think of something she said I think on her blog about beating herself up throughout her twenties for having not "achieved" anything, written a blockbuster play or whatever. This to me is about putting off trying. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Delilah Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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^ wtf? If this song IS about Amanda, and the "schizo" bit is the clue, then I'm disappointed. Anybody who knows anything about it knows that schizophrenia does NOT involve having two (or more) personalities. That's a myth and one that mental health organizations have been battling for a long time. I somehow think that Amanda would know that and that she wouldn't use that kind of mistaken view in a song. I don't know *why* I think that, I just do. One thing I do know is that people with mental health conditions can be at risk of exploitation from others, whether sexual, financial or whatever. Which would explain Delilah's weakness for the ones who use her. I do have one question: what does "watching porn of you from the fall" mean? Does it have some significance that it's "from the fall"? I just assumed she was referring to women who are physically abused claiming they have fallen rather than admit to having been hit. He gets off on her "falls"- gets off on hurting her. Otherwise I don't really understand that line- why would have have porn of her "from the fall"? |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Will Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Wow this song speaks to me! Someone you've slept with and feel a little bit too much for. We're on a knife-edge- I feel like if I tell him how much I like him we'll stop being friends so I don't say anything. Plus I don't really know what I want from him and wish I could just forget about him, but can't... ...that's what this song is to me: scarily familiar. I wonder whether the line "is my back all that bad?" refers to her leaving? Like her turning her back on this person? Just a guess, I don't know if that even fits. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Missed Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Huh, I guess I'm weird. I didn't even take it as necessarily being about someone who's underage. I sort of read the lyrics about telling mother, and daddy's lawyer, and referring to herself as a "little girl" was because she's a bit of a spoilt princess. She has this messed up view of herself. It could also be read as a grown-up woman who is immature in relationships, having fucked up, needy thought processes about a throw-away encounter. Hence "serves you right for kissing little girls"- she's someone immature and unable to cope with casual sex. I certainly never thought of the guy she's singing about as being an abuser. Unless you take the "little girl" bit literally, there's nothing really to suggest he's abusive- she's the nutso. We're only getting the story from the singer's point of view, and she's clearly not a reliable witness, she's frickin fruitloop. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Ampersand Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The line "no such thing as accidents"- nothing to do with the "accidents" in Girl Anachronism I don't think- she's implying that the fire was started deliberately by the person she's singing about, in order to kill her. Or at least she's wondering if that's the case- "lying in my bed I remember what you said...." S/he wants Amanda dead, says there's no such thing as accidents, and then there's this fire. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Modern Moonlight Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Yesterday I dropped in at the MKB". I have no idea what she's referring to here, but MKB would be short for Milton Keynes Bowl, a venue in England. Doesn't seem likely, but once I'd thought of it that's become the meaning for me! |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Half Jack Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I always thought this was about her father, but I link it to my father, and therefore to mental illness (my dad's pretty nuts and his mother was schizophrenic). To me, she wants to "get the Jack part out" because that's the mentally ill part- she carries his crazy genes. Hence for me the "before they had these pills to take" part refers to mood stabilisers, SSRIs (Zoloft, Celexa, Effexor, Prozac etc), or maybe even anti-psychotics. Before these pills she couldn't control the crazy part of her which came from her father. I admit there's not much in there that obviously points to mental illness, it's mostly my personal take on it, but some lines that I think hint at it are "half underwater"; "half painful instrumental"; (both suggest something not right, unclear or unhappy) "you'll notice something funny" (about her...i.e. she's mad); "I guess it's high time you found out" (about the mental illness that runs in the family). |
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