Furious Rose Lyrics
As he raises his voice, she lowers her head
'It makes my heart heavy, you're lonely, I think
Oh, Rose, you're sad, I suppose."
She's lying there dead. - No, she's breathing."
your languorous hum, that tone of surprise.
I've heard energy in adversity.
Your smile: the soul of witchery.
You're not running away,
you're not running - are you?
She's fearfully seething
"Bring me your blessings, a prayer or a new pen.
- You don't know what I need."
I'm lying there dead, but I'm breathing.
And I don't want to drown in my dreams
Bring me wild plums and agrimony
- I bet you don't even know what that means."
your languorous hum, that tone of surprise.
I've heard energy in adversity.
Your smile: the soul of witchery.
You're not running away,
you're not running - are you?
She's terribly freezing, she always knows when to go
Quote from Lisa Loeb:
"Furious Rose is another song touched by the orchestra. I wrote it about Freud and a woman he is trying to show is clinically crazy, but she's actually just depressed and misunderstood. I tried to make the verses intricate and Victorian and the choruses more emotional. When I heard the arrangement for the first time, I imagined a woman running through a dark forest."
i don't think this about a drugged up person at all, I think this is just someone lonely and looking for someone to show them how to be happy, but no one can see how lonely they are.
From a fansite, a quote from Lisa regarding the bit about wild plums and agrimony:
"Wild Plums and Agrimony are flowers. In the song I reference a Victorian dictionary of flowers, which explains that different flowers represent different things. Wild Plums represent independence, and Agrimony represents thankfulness and gratitude. In the song, Freud misdiagnoses Rose as a hysterical woman. Rose is a misunderstood individual, so she is begging for these flowers, obvious symbols of the qualities that she possesses, but qualities that are ignored by the doctor. Rose is a subtle and emotionally substantial person, but she's being pigeonholed as a crazy person. She needs something to represent these traits for her, since Freud can't see them in her. He talks down to her and doesn't take her seriously, and she's frustrated. That's why she says, "I bet you don't even know what that means." A man as smart as Freud should know the symbolic meaning of something as simple as a flower, but inside, she knows that he's ignorant in some ways - his eyes are not open, even though he acts as if he can analyze her."
When I read this quote, it made me fall in love with this song even more. Very clever way to illustrate a person's traits.
Pretty straight forward song I think. Rose is a heroin addict (opiate eyes) ie dilated pupils.
Agrimony is a member of the rose family of flowers by the way!