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Shelia Lyrics
Shelia,
Shelia,
You'll be my wife and share my life,
You'll be my wife, you'll share my life.
We will grow old,
We will grow old.
And when we die we'll bury ourselves,
And when we die we'll bury ourselves.
'cause no one wants to die alone
'cause no one wants to die alone
'cause no one wants to die alone
'cause no one wants to die alone
'cause no one wants to die alone
Shelia
Shelia
We'll die alone together,
Die alone together,
Die alone together,
Die alone together.
Shelia,
You'll be my wife and share my life,
You'll be my wife, you'll share my life.
We will grow old,
We will grow old.
And when we die we'll bury ourselves,
And when we die we'll bury ourselves.
'cause no one wants to die alone
'cause no one wants to die alone
'cause no one wants to die alone
'cause no one wants to die alone
'cause no one wants to die alone
Shelia
We'll die alone together,
Die alone together,
Die alone together,
Die alone together.
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"And when I sang the words, they were so unbelievably unconscious, it's like I was singing somebody else's song. So at first I thought, 'This is good, I'm writing a love song for boys to sing to girls. It's a heterosexual love song. What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?' Then I thought maybe the last part's a little weird, the 'We'll die alone together' part.
I guess, my point is that I realized I had written maybe, I dunno, the first ever asexual love song. Where it's really just about a fear of dying alone-- you need contact, you need love, you need empathy. You need this relationship but if there's no sex involved, people act like it's not a legitimate relationship. In a way the song was really kind of written for my friend Sarah, she and my friend Chrissie have been my best friends since we were very young. And I'd love to spend the rest of my life with Sarah. It's not a romantic thing or a sexual attraction. She's 'Shelia'."
http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/7726-atlas-sound/
I feel that this song could have two meanings. The first could be a man who is so afraid of dying alone that he marries a woman just so he has someone to die with. The other could be that he's met the love of his life. Beautiful song.
Everyone needs to watch this video It's the video of him writing the song on the spot during a live performance It's incredible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjjFXJzGt-g
love it
so simply beautiful
i agree. need not say more.
I don't want to die alone either, Bradford.
"we'll die alone together"
deep stuff right there
beautiful
"And when we die we'll bury ourselves. 'cause no one wants to die alone"
so poetic. i love this