I've tried dolls that were guaranteed sixteen or under none were very exciting Sorta like a laugh track or whacking off they'll get you off but it's just not the real thing Its been decades since my pit days But I haven't shaken it - I sit there like an idiot Still caught up in the old punk protocol And dreaming that the teenagers will think that I'm a radical and I still wait for the bus to come where the high school got torn down Still expecting to find true love among the skateboarders hanging out In back of the bank in my hometown all this talk and no action's got me stiff from the tit to the bone So I'm living in lala land - but at least I'm not living at home Same old catcalls, the same old chemicals Same old thrills stealing stockings from the shopping mall Its simple enough to grow the fuck up happy with the rough cut Nobodys in here looking for a diamond in the rough but I still wait for my mom to come and pick me up at holly's house 10 years after they cashed it in to make a multi-level parking lot for a seven-eleven and burger king I've got cryptographs I've got all the phones tapped It's proof enough it is indisputable Love's not good enough I want photographs Something that will teach me my arithmetic at last.. better get your kids in - I'm on the loose again And getting more ridiculous the more I think I ought to get my mind out of the gutter (it's getting dangerous, amanda-you are old enough to be the pork) He's my own private highway from the cradle to the grave I save a bundle skipping middle age and saturdays and I still wait for the cops to come where the station since burned down Still expecting they'll pick me up for all the sins I committed in the back of the banged-up pickup truck I've got autographs, backstage passes and leather jacket back patches up the... Ask me anything I've got evidence Single serving saccharine packets dripping black with lipstick kisses I still wait for the bus to come back where the high school got torn down Still expecting to find true love among the sakteboarders hanging out In back of the bank in my home- I'm no pederast just out of interes Thank you ,but I'm capable of getting up and getting dressed Love's not good enough I want photographs Something that will teach me common sense Time and time again I think ill dye my hair again Oh god Sixteen No, I'm ten I'm seventeen And a bank of boston beauty queen....



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"Bank of Boston Beauty Queen" as written by Amanda Palmer

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    My Interpretation:The song's about not being able to move on from high school... When you're a teenager, everything's rushed and stupid, but you're at the most impressionable age of your life, and it's often the strongest memories of one's life that are created at this time. Amanda is incredibly self-deprecating throughout, with lines such as "Still caught up in the old punk protocol / And dreaming that the teenagers will think that I’m a radical" and "Same old thrills, stealing stockings from the shopping mall," she is obviously remembering the adrenaline-rushed days of her youth, clinging to them; she's lost in nostalgia and sorrow and by the end of the song, she has given in completely, realizing she hasn't grown up or away: "Oh God / I'm thirty / No, I'm ten / I'm seventeen / And a Bank of Boston Beauty Queen;" revealing the way she perceives her immaturity.
    Flag deliluhhon November 29, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:WHERE DO I FIND THIS!?!
    Flag ramshackledayparadeon July 20, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Hm...
    I agree that it's about not wanting to grow up, but I always thought she took it a little farther and implied that she couldn't grow up.
    Such as schizophrenia or something along those lines.
    Flag livinginlalalandon February 07, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:wow someone recommended this band to me a while ago and i only listened to "Sing" which is a good song but these lyrics are awesome. she (or whoever wrote this) has a really great mind and a clever way with words. this is blunt but still obscure so the masses won't understand it it's something that needs to be digested and dissected. interesting and powerful i like it
    Flag Kira_fuckon January 03, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:For some weird reason when I listen to this song it reminds me of the musical Anne.
    Not sure why.
    Flag 69lostgurlon January 03, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:you can listen toit on project playlist. its a phenominal song. the beat is as driving as anything.
    Flag Nicola672on September 11, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:is she talking about holly from HUMANWINE?
    Flag Nicola672on July 20, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:warlock...the pit does not refer to a mosh pit, it refers to "THE pit" as in the brick walled area in the middle of Harvard square (in Cambridge,MA) above the t-station (subway/ underground bus station)where the "pit rats"
    (misfit kids) hang out. Amanda and I are the same age and hung out at the pit at roughly the same time, but we were never friends and never had the pleasure of meeting formally... BUT she was just as cool back then as she is now.
    Flag amanda oon June 02, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:i have the full version... email me if you want...
    Flag same old blood rushon March 31, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:hah amanda is from my town. I know the exact parking lot she is referring to. I park my car there to go pick up take out. I use to work in the store next to bank of boston, and skateboarders use to be such a problem that there are light security guards there that kick landering kids out!
    great song.
    Flag MarieVBeeon March 28, 2007   Link

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