1 Meaning
Add Yours
Follow
Share
Q&A
She Ain’t Speakin’ Now Lyrics
like some sepulchral tableaux i sit frozen holding your hand
though i’m trying to think only positive thoughts i understand
that this tomorrow may not be the tomorrow that your eviscerating suffering will end
will you ever be yourself again?
girl with the flu, i hear the death rune, she ain’t doing well, her eyes they seem cast and fatherless
her psyche’s cracked or anyhow she ain’t speakin now
nightfall, like some leaden sea, dilates as i hold vigil by your bed
watching the pillowcase soaking with sweat around your head
i can’t repel the snaking veil of morbidity that’s disfiguring the seraph of your face
the organisms been debased
girl with the flu, i hear the death rune, she ain’t doing well, her eyes they seem cast and fatherless
her psyche’s shattered or anyhow she ain’t speakin now
you scream that the books are falling off the shelves on to you but i can’t see them
your hallucination ravings i’m writing them all down so you can read them when your mind no longer aches and your febrility breaks
though i’m trying to think only positive thoughts i understand
that this tomorrow may not be the tomorrow that your eviscerating suffering will end
will you ever be yourself again?
her psyche’s cracked or anyhow she ain’t speakin now
watching the pillowcase soaking with sweat around your head
i can’t repel the snaking veil of morbidity that’s disfiguring the seraph of your face
the organisms been debased
her psyche’s shattered or anyhow she ain’t speakin now
your hallucination ravings i’m writing them all down so you can read them when your mind no longer aches and your febrility breaks
Add your song meanings, interpretations, facts, memories & more to the community.
From Rolling Stone, via RockGenius:
“I wrote the song when both my wife and daughter were bedridden with a terrible illness,” Barnes tells Rolling Stone. “It was during the middle of our recording sessions for Sylvianbriar, so I was pretty paranoid about catching what they had. I would sort of hold my breath whenever I was near them. I wrote the song while fearing the worst. Fortunately, they both recovered.”