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I've been tearing up town in my fucking white gown
Like a goddamn near sociopath
Shaking my ass is the only thing that's
Got this black narcissist off my back
She couldn't care less, and I never cared more
So there's no more to say about that
Except hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman with my past

 

One of my favorite things is when an artist refers to themselves in a song (or book, movie, etc). Like separates, kind of, this certain part that exist inside of them (of us all actually. You know, our demons, angels, whatever you call) and talk to/about it like it was a person.


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National Anthem appreciation:

 

"Red, white, blue's in the skies, summer's in the air and baby, heaven's in your eyes"

 

"Money is the reason we exist
Everybody knows it, it's a fact-kiss, kiss"

 

"It's a love story for the new age
For the six page, we're on a quick, sick rampage
Winin' and dinin', drinkin' and drivin', excessive buyin'
Overdose and dyin' on our drugs and our love and our dreams and our rage
Blurrin' the lines between real and the fake"


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I am so goddamn envious of her skills of self-mythologizing. I wish I could do that in my writing! Maybe I am lacking talent for that, or self-confidence. Can't help but love how she spuns tales of her life. 

I am torn about Hope is... when it comes to the sound, but I am so in awe of the narrative (though I hoped the Sylvia reference to be explored more, but it is what it is, I guess).
Think I might do some close reading of her lyrics.


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"In the name of higher consciousness

I let the best man I knew go
'Cause it's nice to love and be loved
But it's better to know all you can know
I said it's nice to love and be loved

But I'd rather know what God knows

- Pawn Shop Blues

 

"The power of youth is on my mind

Sunsets, small town, I'm out of time
Will you still love me when I shine
From words but not from beauty
My father's love was always strong
My mother's glamour lives on and on
Yet still inside, I felt alone

For reasons unknown to me"

Old Money

 

"Velveteen and living single

It never felt that right to me
I know what only the girls know
Lies can buy you eternity
I, I, see you leaving

So I push record and watch you leave"

Music to Watch Boys To

 

"But you can still find me

If you ask nicely
Underneath the pines
With the daisies
Feeling hazy
In the ballroom of my mind

Across the county line"

13 Beaches

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Finally, gone is the burden

Of the Crowley way of being

That comes from energies combined

Like my part was, I was not discerning

And you, as we found out

Were not in your right mind

 

There’s no more chasing rainbows and hoping for an end to them

Their arches are illusions, solid at first glance

But then you try to touch them and there’s nothing to hold on to

The colors used to lure you in and put you in a trance

 

Get Free is a fucking masterpiece I’m literally still tearing up listening to it almost two years later. She really did THAT.


If by not 'up to par' you mean distilling the worst elements that only kind of work in songs, sure. I could put a dictionary audiobook on shuffle and put it to an instrumental of old money and some of y'all would still be saying it's 50/50 lmfao.

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All of Body Electric basically.

Especially the line : "She prays the Rosary for my broken mind"

 

"I can see my baby swaying, my parliaments on fire and his hands are up, on the balcony and I'm swaying"

 

"Little bits of pieces lined up in an order, box of broken laces tied up in a corner, I'll do what you tell me, we can have it your way, I'll tell you the future , you tell me your story."


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"i went out shopping

planned to go to them all them vintage stores

then i got tired and ended up in some lame department store

and thats okay

cuz i found a really cool belt"

 

gets me every time.

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"i went out shopping

planned to go to them all them vintage stores

then i got tired and ended up in some lame department store

and thats okay

cuz i found a really cool belt"

 

gets me every time.

Which song??

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“I know I wanted all this in the beginning,

I really tried

I know I caught you at a not-so-happy time of your life...

My dreams are bigger than your junkie pride”

 

and

from Try Tonight

“When he enters all of the lights go dim...”

“A dark room in the nighttime

Is how he spends all his time

If he could go on without your help

Then he would do it all by himself

But I don’t think he got strength to muster

And he don’t got a lot, lackluster”

“He’ll try tonight to not get high but he will”


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if i fuck this model and she just bleached her asshole and i get bleach on my t-shirt, imma feel like an asshole

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Two years on and I am reflecting more and more on Heroin.

 

"I'm flying to the moon again, dreaming about heroin.
How it gave you everything, and took your life away.
I put you on an aeroplane, destined for a foreign land 
I hope that you'd come back again, and tell me everything's okay, baby

 

and the tragedy of singing to someone who is long dead:
"I hope that I come back one day, to tell you that I've really changed, baby"

 

:crai:

 

My other absolute favourites:

  • "On Monday they destroyed me, but by Friday I'm revived" - God Knows I Tried
  • "I'm hoping at the gates, they'll tell me that you're mine" - Born to Die
  • "I wore diamonds on the day of our wedding, for our day in the sun. On the same day my mother to be said she wouldn't come" - Fine China
  • "I love you the first time, I love you the last time . . . I'll love you forever - I'll really love you forever" - Ultraviolence
  • "Was I wrong to go on like a little fool? It's amazing what women in love will do." - Big Eyes

and the holy intertextual, ultimate hipster cool references of "My boyfriend's pretty cool, but he's not as cool as me" from Brooklyn Baby which evolves into "My boyfriend's back - and he's cooler than ever" in Lust for Life. :) 


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