Lady With The Braid Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Pocket 

Cover art for Lady With The Braid lyrics by Dory Previn

A heartbreaking song about lonliness.

I know it's probably just what it is; the story of an isolated woman who's trying to get a visitor to stay the night, but when I listen to it I imagine the ghost of the singer trying to talk to men who are dismantling her empty house and not getting any response.

@Pocket It is about a woman responding to her long term domestic abuse situation by killing her husband one evening while he combed his hair in the mirror after a brutal last-straw attack on his wife. She slashes his throat with the straight razor and he breaks the mirror as falls down and dies on the floor. While his heart pumps its last, blood jets over the floor and one of the walls.

She hides and buries all of the evidence successfully and the papers merely report his continued 'missing' status, meaning he is a high profile figure or celebrity......