Voodoo Dolly Lyrics
and she's gonna make you lazy
like the little drum in your ear
transfixes you to your fear
And now she's transfixed in your fear
and you know she's gonna stay there
because her nails are deep in your hair and she made you so......unaware
the beat is coming nearer
like the little drum in your ear
transfixes you to your fear
and she's making you look very silly
and when you listen in to her ear
you get paralysed with her fear
has made you very lazy
and you're anemic from her sucking
and when your dead she'll find another
Better break that little dolly
and sling her in the corner
Now she's a sorry little dolly
such a sorry little dolly
the beat is coming nearer
like that little drum in your ear
transfixing you to your fear
It's disturbingly kooky
SIOUXSIE: "I suppose everyone has their own personal voodoo dolly which is capable of destroying them. A bad habit, or something they like but shouldn't. A vice, most vices; one that's hard to control, hard to kick. The same for men with certain girlfriends, they're like voodoo dollies, always winding them up and they destroy them." Source: Sounds 20/06/81
Siouxsie's father was an alcoholic. Could this be a song that she is singing to her father about either her sister, her mom, or her as the dolly. Apparently her father mistreated them most heinously when he was drunk. This could be about a voice that she imagined spoke in his head making him act the way he did.
this song is one of the first ones i've heard that i actually found almost creepy upon hearing it.
i think it's mostly about a relationship where the guy is probably the submissive one. he's entranced by this woman and lets her do whatever she wants in the relationship. he's probably scared to let her go or be alone. she puts her "spell" on him until she gets what she wants, and then she moves on.
I think it is about fear that makes you paralyse(sorry for my creepy english),doesnt let you do the things you want,and tells you cant do it,tells you that you`re nothing.For me Voodoo dolly is something like BOB from Twin Peaks.
I too see this is a phobia personified as the 'voodoo dolly'. When you have something that scares you to the point of paralysis, it is debilitating. You don't want to face it, you just want to cut out the thing that causes the fear from your life, making you lazy as you cut out things that keep you busy to avoid the fear.
heroincuriosity. transfixed in fear. paralysed and lazy. needles and sins, sins and needles. let me out of here, i belong out there.
Makes me think of that crazy short T.V. film featuring Karen Black in "Trilogy of Terror" from the 1970's. Did any of you ever see that - with the fetish doll chasing the poor woman around her in her own house?
Well the moon waxes gibbous tonight and by beneath its baleful eye I must resume reading some H.P. Lovecraft tales...
The way I treat my body has to stop...