All the cities in the world
And so very little time and
So many different girls...
All you have to do is find them.
There's a wealth of opportunity, you plan your trips accordingly.
A pity, but the pretty ones are usually more touristy.
Say, how'd you like to run away from these machines?
Everywhere the spies are printing out your dreams.
Seven stops in seven different countries,
Seven page itineraries, memories thick as Bloody Marys, Jesus, Joseph, bloody hell.

Right now we're here in Boston,
In love with downtown crossing.
New York will be there in the morning.
Come back to bed, my darling.

Four years thrown away on vows we never kept.
Forty-five minutes every day religiously devoted to regret.
Time we could have spent on medication thrown away on education,
And we planned to take a trip to Scotland but we never made it.
How'd you like to run away from these machines?
I had Julian's and Steve's.
You had Julia's and Jeanette's.
You wear your terror on your sleeve for all the men I haven't met (yet).
I had Oliver in Potsdam, you had Elanor in Amsterdam.
We're keeping track so carefully we've missed the state we're in completely.
Honestly, your foot is out the door and I've got scores of offers elsewhere and keep both feet planted firmly in the air,
And tomorrow you can totally erase me from your mind, but trust me everything is fine,
Because
Right now, we're here in Boston,
In my apartment in the south end.
Forget your year in London.
Come back to bed, my darling.

You can put the details in a letter,
The more embarrassing the better.
Right now I can be happy if I choose to.
I know that in the morning I will lose you...

And maybe you'll go mad.
And maybe I'll go gray
And pack up to Berlin,
Or maybe it won't matter anyway.
We'll find out that your mom was right and you'll admit you're really gay.
And maybe I'll wake up
In a city far away.
Or maybe we'll make up
And buy a house and have a couple kids and a Labrador and a microwave.
But anyway,
Right now we're here in Boston.
In Eden, where you almost pulled your pants down.
Don't worry who these jokes will all be lost on.
Come back to bed, my darling.
There is nothing in the world that we can count on,
Even that we will wake up is an assumption.
But I know for a fact that I loved someone,
And for a about a year he lived in Boston...



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"Boston" as written by Amanda Palmer

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    General Comment:Amanda said at their last show in NZ that this song is about that bit of a relationship before the "fuck you" hits when it's like "it's going to be over soon, isn't it?".
    Flag propertyofon February 23, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:I think this song is about how both Amanda and the guy she was with often travel and have been with people from all over the world "seven stops in seven different countries" without considering the people in the place they live in "we're keeping track so carefully we've missed the state we're in completely
    ". I'm guessing that this guy has a problem with commitment and never stays in one place too long. Amanda tries to convince him to maybe settle down "or maybe we'll make up and buy a house and have a couple kids and labrador and microwave but anyway" but in the end he moves on "I know that in the morning I will lose you".
    Flag EmilySnicket16on March 13, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:i really love this song. it means a lot to me because i think too about those things when i´m in a relationship, like that it´s not gonna last forever, that the future is a mystery, but you have to think about the present, like it says: "right now we are here in boston" i think all the song is about she reflecting that they relationship it´s not gonna last forever and they are not their first loves, and maybe tomorrow they will be separate.
    Flag noviembreon December 21, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Well this is definitely not the version on No, Virginia... but I think the lyrics on the album are incredibly powerful. I think she's in love with someone, but they fight a lot, particularly about people they've been with in the past and the fact that it seems he's busy and away all the time. She suspects that he cheats on her, but she doesn't care as long as she's with him. She doesn't even mind if he forgets her completely, as long as they can forget about everyone and everything else when they're together. Very emotionally complex, and musically built brilliantly.
    Flag Karma policemanon October 27, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Somewhere on interweb someone has the official lyrics to this song....or so he says they're the official lyrics. That line everyone's freaking out about says "...N I M B R F T O feeling...." Alphabet language perhaps?
    Flag addnamehereon July 27, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:i think in this song amanda is mourning something that is yet to come most probably , the lost of her lover .

    to explain his feeling a bit more :

    it's like you travel in the future and you see that your lover will be gone on this date, so you travel back in time with all the knowlege knowing that tomorow your lover will be gone forever while right now he is in your arms . pretty complex feeling.

    like having someone and this persone loves you back and everything is going perfect but you know that tomoorw all that ill be gone.

    it goes about describing the feeling and what is going on in her head , the doubts, the hopes, and everything that goes with it .
    Flag Purple.on June 26, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:What I've found for that line:

    And I am (p r empty o and healing/inhaling)

    And IMO and FTL in feeling (which means and In Memory of and for the Loss in Feeling?)

    So... I haven't really helped at all :) Perhaps there will be an explanation in the song book.
    Flag shutitoffon June 02, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Yeah, I also have a different version. It's from the No, Virginia CD. It's bugging the heck out of me what is she saying at 5:30. Instead of "in eden where you almost pulled your pants down
    don't worry who these jokes will all be lost on
    come back to bed my darling"

    It goes from, 'right now we're here in boston' then what sounds like 'and I am B-R-F-T-O-M- ailing'??? does anyone know?
    Flag Pheemailon May 26, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:perhaps an insight into amanda and brian's relationship itself? the touring aspect for one, - when shes listing off who they each had in different places it kinda sounds like they were both there in competition (but in saying that theres mention of another man who travels a lot in a lot of her songs which i'm sure wouldn't be brian). but just the feelings of coming back to eachother- the nights in eachother's beds pretending all the other dramas don't exist just for a little while- and bostons that place where they can pretend its all ok?

    seems to line up with my perception of their relationship, but i may just be imposing my hopes onto it. maybe when they're old and grey and without shame completely they'll write an autobiography and we'll get to know what happened- and what songs like this are about.
    Flag -Kat-G-on May 25, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:"or maybe we'll make up and buy a house and have a couple kids and labrador and microwave"

    Wishful thinking.

    I think the new version has this as "a dozen kids who'll run away but it doesn't matter anyway." I prefer the labrador I think :)

    But yeah. Love is a contest, it seems.
    Flag shutitoffon May 11, 2008   Link

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