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Paper Doll Lyrics
only daughter
you got your ticket too soon
holy water
'cause everybody's getting ruined
they are waiting to see what you do
too long, waiting
everybody's cleared the room
and they'll dress you up
stand you in all the right places
words like honey
smile as they change your faces
with no regard to you at all
and you find they treat you like a paper doll
and they'll dress you up for the flight
like ophelia, you wave goodnight
with the earth and sky you cheer and cry
writhe as all your days go by
and laugh as you die
sweet softer shoulder; oh sweet sugar safe
everybody's got their own life philosophy
and i can't wait 'til i
find one coming to me
oh, the bridge is narrow
you better not look down
'cause as soon as you jump over
you won't find nobody around
oh, the bridge is narrow
and you've got so far to fall
and you know down in dirty water's no place for a paper doll
you got your ticket too soon
holy water
'cause everybody's getting ruined
they are waiting to see what you do
too long, waiting
and they'll dress you up
stand you in all the right places
words like honey
smile as they change your faces
with no regard to you at all
and you find they treat you like a paper doll
like ophelia, you wave goodnight
with the earth and sky you cheer and cry
writhe as all your days go by
and laugh as you die
and i can't wait 'til i
find one coming to me
oh, the bridge is narrow
you better not look down
'cause as soon as you jump over
you won't find nobody around
oh, the bridge is narrow
and you've got so far to fall
and you know down in dirty water's no place for a paper doll
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kinds of reflect on my life situation right now. a lot of expectations/burdens on my back and people telling me what they want from me. until i'm not quite sure what i am myself. no sense of identity. like a paper doll, i am anonymous/nobody, yet i'm there. well, something like that. words can only say so much.
"everybody's cleared the room and they'll dress you up stand you in all the right places words like honey smile as they change your faces with no regard to you at all and you find they treat you like a paper doll"
everyone is changing you and telling you what to do and who to be. they don't care what you want, they just give you what they think you need without asking you.
Be what you wanna be, not what others want you to be. Simple as that.
Incredible voice.
"and they'll dress you up for the flight like ophelia, you wave goodnight"
i didn't got the ophelia part. someone did?
Ophelia is a character from "Hamlet" by Shakespeare. She's Hamlet's lover, she goes mad and commits suicide by drowning herself.
I found this song to be amazing, but ever so depressing. The girl in this song has the weight of the world on her shoulders. As an only child she bears all the dreams and expectations of her parents. She's been pushed to be perfect and it has all come at her so quickly.
At last she can make her own decisions. She's been dressed "for the fight" and is standing at the bridge between childhood and the life her parents have groomed her for.
But even if she wants to throw herself off this bridge (into the dirty water, like Ophelia, etc.) she can't because she's just a paper-doll for her parents, a toy to live out their ideals, incapable of making her own decisions because she's so crippled by their treatment of her.