Lyrics for Anorexic Beauty as interpreted by papercutdoll

Anorexic Beauty Lyrics
Sitting alone on a cold bar stool,
your cold, hard eyes make me feel a fool.
Pastel-white features,
high cheek-bones,
scarlet-blooded lips and deathly tones.

The girl of my nightmares,
sultry and corpse-like.
The girl
of my
nightmares.

Brittle fingers,
and thin cigarettes,
so hard to tell apart,
she hasn't spoken yet.
You put your hand on mine,
death white on brown,
those whirlpool eyes;
well, I begin to drown.

The girl of my nightmares,
erotic and skull-faced.
The girl
of my
nightmares.

Anorexic beauty,
feather-weight perfection,
anorexic beauty,
underweight
goddess.

Sitting alone on
a cold bar stool, you're
so hard to tell apart,
she hasn't spoken yet.
Pastel-white features,
high cheek-bones,
scarlet-blooded lips and deathly tones.

The girl of my nightmares,
sultry and corpse-like.
The girl
of my
nightmares.

Anorexic beauty,
feather-weight perfection,
anorexic beauty,
underweight
goddess.

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papercutdoll
08-17-2002

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*sigh* Am I the only one who likes this song?

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stellar26
08-30-2002

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nope. I love it.

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emilystarnes
07-04-2003

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aghhhh, how i want to be the girl in this song. i mean, not really, i've been there before and after 65 days away from home i'm NOT going back, but good grief, it's such a powerful feeling.

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DuffDuff77
07-04-2003

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emilystarnes...you know you don't want to be the girl in that song...she's a nightmare. Who would want to be the girl that the pulp sings a dark (really cool) song about...she's the object for a song...no one's true affection

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diveinpuddles8
07-07-2003

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I think this song kind of mocks anorexia... how girls think that it's good to be thin, and how they starve themselves to be gorgeous, but really, how she's a nightmare because she's so thin and brittle.

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fermata
05-14-2004

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i adore this song.

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Kralia
04-22-2005

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GORGEOUS SONG.

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marthveron
08-26-2006

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great,love this song...

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MontaukOptics
01-29-2007

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I also think the song relates to how being so self-involved and insecure can make someone hideous.

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MontaukOptics
01-29-2007

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I also think the song relates to how being so self-involved and insecure can make someone hideous.

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delph
05-10-2007

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notable for having Russell Senior and not Jarvis doing the vocals.
odd song with a biting tone, a tone of mockery, that i've seen some young girls taking in earnest. - speaking as a youngish girl myself.

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Wallamanage
02-26-2008

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also notable because the lyrics are by David Kurley of New Model Soldier, not Pulp. Russell bought them off of him, or so I read.

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delphinet
12-08-2008

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Wallamanage - have heard (read?) the same thing. from the now-defunct Bar Italia resource-site perhaps...
either way it seems to be very much 1) obviously from Pulp's early days, b) a Russell Senior-headed effort as evidenced by his taking lead vocal (nearly unprecedented in Pulp's canon) + possibly acquiring the lyrics (from another?) of his own accord.
Russell also takes lead vocal on The Will to Power, This House is Condemned, & (record-session only) Srpski Jeb - other pre-1990s efforts which sound unlike the rest of Pulp's canon... although I do adore Russell (loved that violin!) he can be a bit odd with his choices sometimes.
(BTW this is delph from above - forgot prev login.) but yeah, i don't see how this song glamourizes anorexia any more than 'Sorted out for Es and Wizz' is upbeat positive about, well, Es & wizz & drugs in general - listen closely & they're both sad, mocking songs (speaking as one who had her stint in the design/fashion industry on both sides of the camera-lens)


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