Cecilia/Amanda Lyrics

Lyric discussion by xoSiouxsie 

Cover art for Cecilia/Amanda lyrics by Elliott Smith

Well theres only 4 comments, so I thought I'd give my opinion. I think it's about a friend of his, who's a prostitute/stripper, who also has a child. One thing I don't understand is the age of Amanda. Because he says "If you got a little baby now, .." and then "she asked me can I fix it so the record plays the rest of her songs". The latter makes Amanda sound 5 or 6, and not like a baby.

Either way, I think Cecilia told Amanda she's a balarina or something, when really she's a stripper. "she asks me are you a pretty dancer, but I don't think I'm gonna answer". Also, I think Amanda's trying to copy Cecilia (kids do that). "Ah, Amanda put on her new party dress yesterday, dancing to a record you scratched."

Still don't know what "In a place where lonely men pay to make their opposites match" means. Like, I know what he means, but not really. Sort of. I don't know.

The line "In a place where lonely men pay to make their opposites match" could be taken a couple of different ways. One interpretation is lonely men going to a whorehouse.

I agree with Worditskevin about the records being methaphor for drugs (Heroin). A needle on a record player/heroin needle. The reference to "fix" the record/junkie getting her fix

Is Cecilia dead from an overdose? Her daughter (?) Amanda asks how longs she's going to be gone? "Every remembrance of you has been buried below". And it looks like Amanda is turning...