I didn't mean to make you feel out of place
By the comments on your clothing or the makeup on your face
I didn't mean to preempt the chase
You're the drama queen of every scene perfectly out of place
So you cry yourself to sleep on your blanket of snow
With your tiara of Barbie doll heads and your arms crossed for a pillow
If you can't make up your mind just how different you should be
Reorganize your priorities to expect more sympathy

Only cynicism can get through to you
Expand the image, up the insults
Negativism through and through
All of this pretending makes me feel a bit confused
You've spent your life losing yourself
And now you're marked as used
So you cry yourself to sleep on your blanket of snow
With your tiara of Barbie doll heads and your arms crossed for a pillow

If you can't make up your mind just how different you should be
Reorganize your priorities to expect more sympathy



Lyrics submitted by badsrx7, edited by Mellow_Harsher


I'm Afraid of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf song meanings
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    General Comment:Wow, that perfectly makes sense... I never looked on the song in that way... but yeah. Thanks!
    Flag ExcessiveClaptrapon April 22, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:He said at last night's show at the Abbey Pub in Chicago that this song is a rip on Emo that he wrote while back-packing in Italy in 2001.
    Flag theorgangrinderon March 30, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:the relation between the song, play and writer is this-

    the song is a play on 'whose afraid of virginia woolf'
    if youve read the play, the wife drunkenly sings "whose afraid of virginia woolf" to the tune of "whose afraid of the big bad wolf", which, according to Albee, the wolf, and what it, and Virginia Woolf represents is THE TRUTH (about life, relations, everything i suppose). i guess that means that MBD are saying they are afraid of someone who fears the truth...
    Flag chordmongeron March 08, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:the FALLofDana,

    stephen king has no culture too. anything you can by next to a james patterson novel in a drug store has no culture. go to a library and find a famous author from before 1965 and read that.
    Flag PoorMansSuperman49on February 18, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:In Response To: Morning Glory

    You're right, it doesn't mean you don't have culture. It just means you have sucky culture.

    Seriously, it's pathetic. Next thing you know no one will know who Edgar Allan Poe is or Stephen King or anything. God, really books are good. Try one someday.
    Flag theFALLofDanaon January 19, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:actually yah, if you hear virginia woolfe and the first thing you think of is nickelodeon you have no culture. i mean i love that show, but seriously, crack a book sometime homie.
    Flag PoorMansSuperman49on January 04, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:The titles of the songs on this album don't necessarily have anything to do with the songs... They're all titles of books, movies, plays, or parodies thereof.
    Flag veglifeon July 26, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:haha all I have to say is that music nazi's are my biggest pet peeve. So what if someone doesn't know who virgina woolf is? As long as the song means something to you, thats cool. Fighting about music ruins the music. Let it be beautiful as it is, don't ruin it by attempting to impress people with how much you know, unless perhaps it is the only thing that gets you to sleep better at night.
    Flag loveleftneverkepton December 19, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Virginia Woolf was a famous writer/poet.
    There was a movie made about her, called The Hours, starring Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep.
    She killed herself by walking into a river with stones in her pockets.
    Flag tessareyeson July 29, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:that and the fact you seem to like Oasis.
    Flag blanktomon March 22, 2006   Link

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