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Cover art for Dear Jenny lyrics by Dresden Dolls, The

A song about a home helping those with eating disorders.

"boys wear overcoats in heat like this to keep themselves from showing" - Even in the Summer they have to wear large clothes to stop their bony bodies from showing

"specialists review the year in tears and call for drastic measures send them to resorts for boys and girl to get their shit together" - when there's no other resort, they have to send them away

"sad but true the facts of life are bound to get you down" - health implications

"andy gets a new tattoo each time he gets back bathroom privledge" - bulimic patients aren't allowed to go to the bathroom, in case they're leaving their drip to go and purge

"when they check out in the morning dad puts out the lie detectors" - asking if they REALLY ate or not

"all the walls stay dead as jennys heart is but shes still observing" - dead = lifeless, no energy

"sad but true the highgloss gloss paint wont tell you what to do" = magazines can't tell you how to live

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