Jeannie's Diary

This song is about being obsessed about a girl, even though you can't completely understand her. People seem so much more interested when you're obsessed with them. But it also feels harder to accept why they won't have you. And he just wants to feel that he has the chance to be written about in her diary. Just one page, and he'd be happy.

For what it's worth, this is a cover version. It was orignally written by The Hollies. I really like this version though. It makes it easy to be wistful, which is a wonderful thing.

I just love the flegmatic mood of this song.

I totally posted my previous comment on the wrong song. It was for another Eels song. I apologize for the mistake.

reminds me of me and my ex i love her so much lol

living this song right now. as everyone who ever posts on an emotional song's page is haha thats why i wanna defend the obsessed way if putting it. but i do believe it goes completely with the idea of falling for someone you can't understand. "everything she does is curious" the feeling that you could present yourself on a silver platter, but the only thing you know is that you dont know. also the first line can be read two ways, as a pretentious voice and as a real question, maybe the pretentiousness is veiling the other. Songmeanings should get paid for these large group sessions haha

The bells/chimes used in the song make it one of my favorites. I'm not sure why - they just seem to be so perfect and give a wordless echo to the emotions expressed in it.

I hear two variations of them in the song - a short, discordant clanging sound, and then a pure extended deep note, that play against each other.

I especially notice them here -

...yes i am intense (clang) maybe quite obsessed (clang)

• signaling the the singer's incongruent state of mind (intense, obsessed) and followed by the chime:

...everything she does is curious

• emphasizing a purity of feeling for her contrasting his own personal tumultuous state (or maybe symbolizing her perfection in his eyes)

The two sounds then continue throughout the song, echoing this dual theme wordlessly.

I love the last two chimes of the song that I'm able to hear before then end, one picked up and extended by the strings, and then one extended ~ an octive lower (I think) ~ by a clarinet (or oboe). Beautiful.