This is one of only two songs that have ever actually frightened me the first time I heard them (the other being Tori Amos' cover of "'97 Bonnie and Clyde"). I had fallen asleep listening to Kate's songs and this is the song that woke me up. I woke to the sound of the different voices calling "wake up!" and this part of the song:
'Listen to me, listen to me, baby. Listen, baby, help me,
baby! Help me, help me! Listen to me, talk to me!'
'You won't burn.'
'Red, red roses.'
'You won't bleed.'
'Pinks and posies.'
'Confess to me, girl.'
'Red, red roses,'*
'Go down!'
Before the chanting of "Spiritus sanctus in nomine.."
It was pure terror, fumbling in the half-consciousness between sleep and awake, trying to figure out where I was, where the voices were coming from, what was going on... I was frantic for a good twn or twenty seconds before coming fully awake and realizing I only needed to take the headphones from my ears. This song is more powerful to me now because of that experience, I feel almost as if I came close to feeling how our heroine in the song must have felt while that was going on. Lost, frantic, panicked and confused... terrified.
This is one of only two songs that have ever actually frightened me the first time I heard them (the other being Tori Amos' cover of "'97 Bonnie and Clyde"). I had fallen asleep listening to Kate's songs and this is the song that woke me up. I woke to the sound of the different voices calling "wake up!" and this part of the song:
'Listen to me, listen to me, baby. Listen, baby, help me, baby! Help me, help me! Listen to me, talk to me!' 'You won't burn.' 'Red, red roses.' 'You won't bleed.' 'Pinks and posies.' 'Confess to me, girl.' 'Red, red roses,'* 'Go down!'
Before the chanting of "Spiritus sanctus in nomine.."
It was pure terror, fumbling in the half-consciousness between sleep and awake, trying to figure out where I was, where the voices were coming from, what was going on... I was frantic for a good twn or twenty seconds before coming fully awake and realizing I only needed to take the headphones from my ears. This song is more powerful to me now because of that experience, I feel almost as if I came close to feeling how our heroine in the song must have felt while that was going on. Lost, frantic, panicked and confused... terrified.