In my opinion this song is at least mainly about Frances Farmer like most people have said,
the title is "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle" because she was born and raised in Seattle and was hospitalized at Western State hospital in Steilacoom, WA and allegedly had a lobotomy performed on her there.
This part in particular makes me think of her (also my favorite part):
In her false witness, we hope you're still with us,
To see if they float or drown
Our favorite patient, a display of patience,
Disease-covered Puget Sound
She'll come back as fire, to burn all the liars,
And leave a blanket of ash on the ground
Someone asked what the Puget Sound was, it's a large fjord (system of flooded glacial valleys) but the area of land around
the sound (which isn't just Seattle but includes it as well as my podunk town =P) is often called the Puget Sound too. Look at a map of WA and
the water that cuts thorough the middle of Western Washington is it.
In my opinion this song is at least mainly about Frances Farmer like most people have said, the title is "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle" because she was born and raised in Seattle and was hospitalized at Western State hospital in Steilacoom, WA and allegedly had a lobotomy performed on her there. This part in particular makes me think of her (also my favorite part):
In her false witness, we hope you're still with us, To see if they float or drown Our favorite patient, a display of patience, Disease-covered Puget Sound She'll come back as fire, to burn all the liars, And leave a blanket of ash on the ground
Someone asked what the Puget Sound was, it's a large fjord (system of flooded glacial valleys) but the area of land around the sound (which isn't just Seattle but includes it as well as my podunk town =P) is often called the Puget Sound too. Look at a map of WA and the water that cuts thorough the middle of Western Washington is it.