Beautiful

i've loved this song for ages. i think it's about this girl who seems ok but she only seems that way because her doctor gave her pills to keep the sadness away. the going blind part i think has to do with crying (like when someone says if you keep crying so much you'll go blind) but since everyone assumed she was ok, no one helped her stop crying and she went blind. the irony of it is that there are a ton of people who could care for her or at least care about her and relate to her (barren mothers, isolated teenagers), but no one knows whats she going through. lisa's interested in a lot of stuff (photography, pornography) but she feels stuck in this boring, routine life where she feels like cant make things happen for herself.

i used to think i was her.

(ps sorry for being all ramble-y and emo about it. oh well!)

I'm sorry, but pornography is not an interest that you pursue, especially not women.

The line is: She thought it would be fun to try photography She thought it would be fun to try pornography She thought it would be fun to try most anything

It sounds to me here that she became involved in some kind of desperate downward spiral which involved posing for pornographic pictures. How this fits in with anything else in the song, I have no idea.

No one's commented on this?! This song is brilliant. I find it kind of hard to figure out what it's about though, considering the almost contradicting lyrics. It's definitely putting across the feeling that Lisa is a weird person, though.

This is one of my all-time favorite b&s songs. I've always wondered who Lisa is.

this song is amazing. maybe you had to know lisa to understand it.

I agree with theyletme. I've felt like Lisa too.

I heard this song last night and it sounded so familiar. Like I had heard it before. Definitely one of my favorite Belle and Sebastian songs.

i love this song

i think its about a girl who people only see whats going on on the outside, and dont really care about her-slightly mental, and tempramental but shes beautiful-she does things that seem right, like take a pill or wear orthopedic shoes but thats just making things worse because even though there are people around her they only see "the pill" or the shoes. they only see the things that are supposed to make her better

that could be totally and completely wrong

i thinks its just about a young troubled girl who is doing worse than she lets on. people think she's a bit weird but they don't see a reason to try and help her even though she needs it.

and maybe going blind means going on drugs. instead of talking to her they (maybe her parents) just put her on something even though "If you knew what's going on in her life there'd be two hundred troubled teenagers to sit with her and talk to her" really all she needs is just someone to talk to.

i was part lisa. i love the name lisa. complex stuff. Lisa from the song seems complex too. theylermegoblind, im with her. shes right! awsoem song!