I think this song is about CHOOSING not to get over a broken heart just yet. I feel like her friends are getting a little fed up that she's still broken up about it after a year "they mime their sighing violins". It seems to me like she's so heartbroken over the loss of a relationship that she's just not ready to let it go. "I want my chest pressed to your chest / ten or elven months have passed / think I'll wait another year" is almost like "I want this so keenly even after all this time that I'm going to give myself another year to grieve for it". She realises that in the grand scheme of things a year isn't a long time to wait when she's 26 and could live to 83. The last verse especially makes me think it's what the song is about. It's almost saying "so I choose to still yearn for you for another year - how about you join me, being some beer and smokes and it'll be the best year ever".
The cd she mentions might be of interest. On the 2004 version lyrics its Ad Frank's cd (??), on this one it is Bill Kicks. I have been a fan of Bill Hicks for some years; he died in 1993 I believe. However, if Amanda Palmer is 32/33, and she is 26 in the song, a new Bill Hicks cd isn't possible.
Bill Hicks was a great comedian (imo) who died out of lung cancer; and long time avid smoker (a lighter a day he claimed), and gave up drink. Not a suicide, he simply killed himself by his bad vices,...
The cd she mentions might be of interest. On the 2004 version lyrics its Ad Frank's cd (??), on this one it is Bill Kicks. I have been a fan of Bill Hicks for some years; he died in 1993 I believe. However, if Amanda Palmer is 32/33, and she is 26 in the song, a new Bill Hicks cd isn't possible.
Bill Hicks was a great comedian (imo) who died out of lung cancer; and long time avid smoker (a lighter a day he claimed), and gave up drink. Not a suicide, he simply killed himself by his bad vices, but when it came to dying, its said he accepted death peacefully, when there was no other options. When personally I am looking for hope in this world, or looking to not take life so seriously, I often watch and listen to abit of his shows. His philosophy was that life is just a rollercoaster ride; it has its ups and downs that are part of the ride, but that people forget they are on it and take life too seriously.
Well, I think the reference is ironic. Unless she is referring buying his cds after his death, just getting into them, I think its another smoking and living reference; shes saying she could live till 83, but she would have to stop smoking, and to want to live that long.She wants to enjoy life, indeed. I don't know if I would be happy at 83...
I think this song is about CHOOSING not to get over a broken heart just yet. I feel like her friends are getting a little fed up that she's still broken up about it after a year "they mime their sighing violins". It seems to me like she's so heartbroken over the loss of a relationship that she's just not ready to let it go. "I want my chest pressed to your chest / ten or elven months have passed / think I'll wait another year" is almost like "I want this so keenly even after all this time that I'm going to give myself another year to grieve for it". She realises that in the grand scheme of things a year isn't a long time to wait when she's 26 and could live to 83. The last verse especially makes me think it's what the song is about. It's almost saying "so I choose to still yearn for you for another year - how about you join me, being some beer and smokes and it'll be the best year ever".
The cd she mentions might be of interest. On the 2004 version lyrics its Ad Frank's cd (??), on this one it is Bill Kicks. I have been a fan of Bill Hicks for some years; he died in 1993 I believe. However, if Amanda Palmer is 32/33, and she is 26 in the song, a new Bill Hicks cd isn't possible. Bill Hicks was a great comedian (imo) who died out of lung cancer; and long time avid smoker (a lighter a day he claimed), and gave up drink. Not a suicide, he simply killed himself by his bad vices,...
The cd she mentions might be of interest. On the 2004 version lyrics its Ad Frank's cd (??), on this one it is Bill Kicks. I have been a fan of Bill Hicks for some years; he died in 1993 I believe. However, if Amanda Palmer is 32/33, and she is 26 in the song, a new Bill Hicks cd isn't possible. Bill Hicks was a great comedian (imo) who died out of lung cancer; and long time avid smoker (a lighter a day he claimed), and gave up drink. Not a suicide, he simply killed himself by his bad vices, but when it came to dying, its said he accepted death peacefully, when there was no other options. When personally I am looking for hope in this world, or looking to not take life so seriously, I often watch and listen to abit of his shows. His philosophy was that life is just a rollercoaster ride; it has its ups and downs that are part of the ride, but that people forget they are on it and take life too seriously. Well, I think the reference is ironic. Unless she is referring buying his cds after his death, just getting into them, I think its another smoking and living reference; shes saying she could live till 83, but she would have to stop smoking, and to want to live that long.She wants to enjoy life, indeed. I don't know if I would be happy at 83...