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It's your bicycle bells and you Rembrandt swells
Your children alive and still breathing
And your look of loss when you're coming across
Makes me feel like a thief when you're bleeding
Duchess Duchess
Light up your candles for me
Duchess Duchess
Put all your love back in me
I come listening I touch touching
With the Persian sea running through your veins
You shed your names with the seasons
Still they all return with the last remains
And they lay them before you like reasons
With your shimmering dress it says no it says yes
It says I've nothing left for concealing
Its your shiftless flesh and your old girls grace
Its your young girls face that I'm breathing
Duchess Duchess
Light up your candles for me
Duchess Duchess Duchess
Put all the love back in me
I am lying she is crying
Your children alive and still breathing
And your look of loss when you're coming across
Makes me feel like a thief when you're bleeding
Light up your candles for me
Duchess Duchess
Put all your love back in me
I come listening I touch touching
You shed your names with the seasons
Still they all return with the last remains
And they lay them before you like reasons
It says I've nothing left for concealing
Its your shiftless flesh and your old girls grace
Its your young girls face that I'm breathing
Light up your candles for me
Duchess Duchess Duchess
Put all the love back in me
Song Info
Submitted by
ilse On Mar 11, 2007
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I'm a 300lb biker with a lot of hate, eats roadkill when no one is lookin, but this song, it just, it reduces me to tears. There I said it, I feel better now.
Love this song but never figured out what it means. Anyone?
It seems to me, like many Sott Walker songs to be very personal, so probably uninterpretable, though there are obvious illusions to Amsterdam, someone seeing an 'older woman' for what she once was. Something about it makes me think of an historical figure rather than an allegorical one, but maybe that's a red herring.
It seems to me, like many Sott Walker songs to be very personal, so probably uninterpretable, though there are obvious illusions to Amsterdam, someone seeing an 'older woman' for what she once was. Something about it makes me think of an historical figure rather than an allegorical one, but maybe that's a red herring.
I think the line is "With your shimmering dress, It says no, it says yes, It says I have nothing left for concealing"
I have no idea who its about, but damn its beautifully written & peformed
God, this song is heartbreakingly beautiful.