Canopies and Drapes Lyrics
I wanna see you tonight
What's the point?
All we do is fight
I've loved you
So long
I don't know who I'd be without
I wish I'd never woke up
I feel worse
Than when S Club 7 broke up
I hate the day
It hates me
So does everybody else
Another routine episode of Friends
What does it mean to be American?
Is it
Feelings, coffee and
I'll be there for you?
Then I'll call your house at twelve to let you know
That I'm drunk
Say I'm sorry Mr C, I was just looking for your son
How is he, incidentally, do you know if he's out
Alone?
There is this book he lent to me something like seven
Months ago
I'm gonna burn it in the street be so kind as to let him
Know
That I'm dealing
With this badly
And
Could he please get back to me?
The Jam
Though my time with you has got me feeling oh so K.D.
Lang
I think you're right about the New Kids on the Block
And I agree now Billy Joel does not rock
Helps me see
How Annie Hall is starting to seem quite a lot like you
And me
Took a while to come around to David Bowie's new CD
And it's much too late to give back your Magnetic
Fields EP
Can I keep it
By my pillow?
Really loved it
How I long to tell you so
Drapes
And wake shaking in the knowledge that the mattress
Holds your shape
I'll assume my phone is dead because it hasn't rung for
Months
If tomorrow is the funeral do you think that you could
Come?
I could give you back your music and your t-shirts and
Your socks
Run to Jazz's house in SOHO cry into her letter box
Take some time out to resuscitate my soul
Take up smoking and drink carrot juice and grow
Teach the mattress to erase you from its folds
Then dry my eyes and keep on moving til the motion
Makes me strong
Till one day I realise I don't remember that you're
Gone
We'll be strangers
Who were lovers
I'll recover
It's so weird how time goes on

magnetic field teepee = Magnetic Fields EP.
C'mon, I can't be the first person to visit this page that knows who the Magnetic Fields are. They're amazing!

i know some of the words are probably wrong.. and i particularly don't get the third verse. but i love how the whole song is bursting with this whole bunch of words. i also love the part where she goes "could he please get back to me?" cos she's asking his dad to get him to call her back and she's kinda begging him to come back at the same time.

For some reason this song makes me think of a friend of mine who was killed. Even though this is a song about the loss of a romantic relationship, the sense of grief it expresses is so similar to what I've felt.

I love this song argh.

This song is just too good to be true. I know it's basically simple, about the breakup of a relationship, but somehow I always get from it that she has no real claim on her lover anyway, maybe she was just friends with this guy but had secret feelings for him? I'm rambling, though.

The line, "And wake shaking from the knowledge that the mattress holds your shape" is what got to me. After a few listens, i realised it's: teach the matress to expel you from its folds :)

The line, "And wake shaking from the knowledge that the mattress holds your shape" is what got to me. After a few listens, i realised it's: teach the matress to expel you from its folds :)

Personally i think this song is about the death of her lover.
"And it's much too late to give back your magnetic field EP" "Until one day i realise I don't remember that you're gone"
I believe it's about dealing with death, and how she is in denial for so long about it.

i love how her descriptions of her difficulties letting go of the relationship are so simple and easy to relate to i giggled when she mentioned s club 7 lovely song =)

I don't that this song is about the death of a lover. I think its simply the death of a relationship something that in its self requires a kind of mourning. Her difficulties are just in letting go of a realationship that has obviously shaped her.
"I've loved you. So long I don't know who I'd be without"
I think this is how anyone whos been with someone for a period of time feels. It's accepting that things will never quite be the same again.
"We'll be strangers who were lovers I'll recover It's so weird how time goes on"
I love this song and all of Emmy Lees songs mainly because it speaks of things that all of us do and the reactions are the way that all of us react.
Anyway im more than likley talking nonsense now.