Going Away

Directly from the booklet that came with the CD:

Going Away

Please don’t forget me. I’m going away. I’m taking a taxi to Kentucky where they don’t need to know all about me. I just need to feel safe. I’ve got a thousand sweaters and shoes and paintings to hide the skeletons in my bed. Don’t ask where I’m going. I’m going away. I’m going my way. Finally it’s my time to be lonely, and lost, unloved and I can’t wait. Don’t forget what I said. Don’t forget my letter. Every night I pray for you. I don’t got no religion, isn’t that something? I’ll miss those days. I saved that bottle, it’s now 10 years aged. I’ve got some bibles I could sell for money, and a pair of fresh shaved legs. Won’t you baby come with me? I’ve got extra space, in my car, in my heart, in my mind, look there’s the passenger seat by the postcards you gave. (Don’t know where I’m going).

[Chorus]

But he said, “Slow down. Slow down. Think it over. We’ve all got wretched closets, but silly girl pride kills more than aids lately.” I said, “Come on. I’ve thought it over. I don’t want to die here. I’ve no desire to get married.” I can’t race the others anymore. No. I must learn to race myself.

I’m going away. I’m going my way. Finally it’s my time to be lonely, and lost, unloved and I can’t wait. Please forgive what I said. Please forgive my letter. (I’ll find my way). Every night I pray for you, I don’t got no religion isn’t that something I’ll miss those days. I...I...I’m not going half way! Every night I pray for you. Don’t believe in heaven. Or that it could be a happy place. I’m going away.

like the song

the lyrics here are all wrong. this is a kickass song though. i think it is about a girl refusing a proposal and/or running away from small town/conventional life. "finally it's my time to be lonely and lost, unloved and i can't wait." she wants some independence!

I think it's about someone who leaves home thinking they're going to have this life-changing experience, but knows deep down they are deluding themselves (hence the "skeletons in my way") When they talk about it being their time "to be lonely, lost, unloved" I think the person views these as conventional experience that they have to have at some point in their life, and they're going away in order to do that. Then there's this other voice in the song, almost like the voice of reason, telling them that this isn't smart and that they're being reckless. But in the end, the person decides to leave anyway.

"Going away," I wrote at the very beginning of my break up. When I was most afraid, so in turn, I felt the strongest, the most sanguine. It lasted only a week, that strength, that hope, that spirit, but while it lasted it was real. It was the most courageous I had felt in a long while, and I wrote the most optimistic sad song I could, and that is what I got. - Dia (from the Meg & Dia MySpace blog)