Sarah

probably just a coincidence but this makes me think of 'the heart is deceitful above all things' - it has a sarah, the actress playing her has an angel tattoo on her belly, she dyes her hair from blonde to black and takes off her clothes and goes running around a road at some point. a large chunk of the novel/film is the way in which her young son (who was -adopted- by another couple but is taken back by her) looks up to sarah - even pretending to be her at some points.

at first i thought it's about some girl who became indifferent [They cut out her heart], stopped believing in God [she decided He never came at all] and the latter decision sort of took the prespective of afterlife away from her.

but i don't understand why does Natasha want to be like her.. how can she adopt Sarah's heart if it's not there? maybe cutting it out isn't a symbol here - stupid idea but maybe Natasha is to take care of it in some way.. or has had it transplanted.. erm :]

'She gave me her clothes and told me take her place' not only does the narrator want to be like Sarah but Sarah herself orders her to - maybe because she knows she's going away (dying?).

and the latest idea - maybe Sarah herself i just a symbol of some attitude. picking it up seems cool for Natasha so she creates a real person whose life would sort of explain that attitude.

hm, still, confusing.

this song is about the book "Sarah" by JT Webber or whatever his name is.

Adopting Sarah's heart= having Sarah love you. Having Sarah settle down and make a home in the way that Prescilla wants to in another song from the album. They cut out her heart= child abuse? Negligence? Sarah, has become callous, and the insinuation is also promiscuous. Sarah can never feel the pain of heartache because she has no heart, which is why the singer wants to be like her.

i believe this is about a young girl who looks up to this older girl. the older girl is your typical rebel; she's sexually uninhibited, indifferent with her emotions, sarcastic or mocking, and most likely atheist, from how the songs portrays her.

the young girl puts her on a pedestal and wants to be like her, and finally gets the chance when "sarah" decides to basically hand over her badass title. that's what it basically translates to when it says "take her place."

the whole cutting out sarah's heart and whatnot, it's just a metaphor for her being heartless and unfeeling to the emotions of others. the young girl knows it's not going to be easy "adopting sarah's heart" because it's not really easy to go from being a regular person to someone who really just doesn't give a (blank) about anything.

my interpretation, at least.

i agree with jamescrash. i love this song because my name is sarah and it's really eerie and cool to hear her sing my name over and over like that :P

I love how Natasha creates these characters- Sarah, Prescilla, Karen, etc. It makes her album like a storybook adventure with a dark twist or something.

Kereerar said it well, I think. I definitely agree that Sarah is this older, stronger girl that at the very least pretends not to give a shit about anything. The narrator wants to be like her so she can stop feeling the pain of life and love. It's both sad and appealing the idea of not being able to feel anything.

I also love the story book aspect of the album! Looks like the new one's gonna be similar what with Daniel and all...

I think this song is retrospective. She is remembering when she was younger and she admired a girl called Sarah because she is indifferent and cool. But now she is older she has realised that it was silly; the lyrics "tarmac of the melting motorway" suggests Sarah has died in an accident and it was because she was too "cool" to care for speed limits, or something. The tone of the chorus suggests she is mocking her former self when she admired Sarah but now realises that her very coolness caused her death.

The novel that this song is about is Sarah by JT LeRoy.

"They cut out her heart when she was a little girl" - Sarah was abused as a child, and consequently has no heart, she's dead inside.

"(God) wasn't there at all" she has lost her faith.

"Sarah I want to be like you.... So I know how it feels not to feel" - The speaker is fed up of being heartbroken at the end of relationships, she wants to be heartless like Sarah so she doesn't feel the pain.

"Adopting Sarah's heart was never gonna be easy" - she's decided they'll trade places. She will somehow become heartless like Sarah, and Sarah will become like her and know how to feel.

"Changing from black to blonde" - they change their appearance

"Gave me her clothes and told me to take her place" - self explanatory.

So it goes back to the chorus and they have swapped identities and taken each other's lives. Sarah will try to be like the speaker and find love, and the speaker will try to be like Sarah and flit from one relationship to the next. Or have serious relationships but just not care enough to get hurt.

It's unclear how this will work if they have only changed their appearance, but I assume there was some kinda black magic involved. :)