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Halls of Sarah Lyrics
A childless widow of a nation
You cry like guns across the water
Yet we expect you to bring springtime, it isn't fair
Searchlights wither in your hair
You are a silent movie, Sarah
Men build their industries around you
Gathered in withers of your hair
They're looking farther on reflection
You're left to die of exposure, Sarah
Sarah with the beating heart
Sarah with the mouth of stone
Sarah with the -
You are a silent movie, Sarah
Let her go, the light is fading
I cry like guns across the water
She didn't ask to be your remake or your muse
The parasites inside of booze
Sarah with the beaten heart
Sarah with the mouth of stone
I call but there is no one home
Sarah with the beaten heart
Sarah with the mouth of stone
I call but there is only echo
From a recording machine
Screaming [?] my dreams
You see our poets (poets)
Do an odious business
Loving womankind (womankind)
As lions love Christians
So who are you to deny
Who are you to deny them, Sarah?
(Sarah)
(Sarah)
(Sarah)
(Sarah)
(Sarah)
(Echo, echo)
Round and round and round and round and round
You cry like guns across the water
Yet we expect you to bring springtime, it isn't fair
Searchlights wither in your hair
Gathered in withers of your hair
They're looking farther on reflection
You're left to die of exposure, Sarah
Sarah with the beating heart
Sarah with the mouth of stone
Sarah with the -
You are a silent movie, Sarah
I cry like guns across the water
She didn't ask to be your remake or your muse
The parasites inside of booze
Sarah with the mouth of stone
I call but there is no one home
Sarah with the mouth of stone
I call but there is only echo
Screaming [?] my dreams
You see our poets (poets)
Do an odious business
Loving womankind (womankind)
As lions love Christians
So who are you to deny
Who are you to deny them, Sarah?
(Sarah)
(Sarah)
(Sarah)
(Sarah)
(Sarah)
Round and round and round and round and round
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Sarah is the muse that artists either exalt or vilify in their works, the ones they credit or blame for their creative suffering.
Sarah isn’t a real person, and that’s entirely the point.
Neko said she basically got sick of the notion that you have to rely on a person or persons as a so-called muse for your creativity, to fawn over or to destroy as an act of revenge for some wrongdoing. She feels it’s ethically wrong and just a shitty thing to do.
So she wrote Halls of Sarah with a completely made up character as the centrepiece, just to show that you can craft a song and pine for someone or air your dirty laundry, whatever suits your fancy, without having to condemn a real person to that fate.
And it worked; I’ve completed fallen for Sarah, and she’s not even real, but that doesn’t change anything. It shows that you don’t have to destroy anyone to make magic.
@Blaze_Infernus Absolutely! And every time I hear this I wonder if "Sarah" was chosen specifically to carry on the "Sara" of Stevie Nicks' musing. The latter part of the song even has a bit of a Stevie/Fleetwood Mac vibe with the "Sarah!" background vocals.
@Blaze_Infernus Absolutely! And every time I hear this I wonder if "Sarah" was chosen specifically to carry on the "Sara" of Stevie Nicks' musing. The latter part of the song even has a bit of a Stevie/Fleetwood Mac vibe with the "Sarah!" background vocals.