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bring two prix fixe dinners up
I’ll unwrap the plastic cups
it’s just us my love
it’s just us my love
I will clean the room up nice
put your insides all on ice
it was real true love
it was real true love
close all the windows
put signs on the handles
and strip down to my dun-dun-duns
you have gone too far
you have gone so far
and tonight
its just me and the minibar (just up to diminished)
candles from the walmart that
every city has to have
that I bought last night
that I bought last night
I was so excited to
do such normal things with you
when you left last night
with your toothbrush dry
no such details will spoil my plan
that is the kind of girl I am
can you hear room 318...?
man they’re really happening...
they’re a wild bunch
they’re a wild bunch
but if they just knew
what my night was coming too
god would they vomit and run
you have gone too far
you have gone too far
and tonight
it’s just me and the minibar
nobody else
and I sing at the top of my lungs
happy birthday us
happy birthday us
I’ll unwrap the plastic cups
it’s just us my love
it’s just us my love
I will clean the room up nice
put your insides all on ice
it was real true love
it was real true love
close all the windows
put signs on the handles
and strip down to my dun-dun-duns
you have gone too far
you have gone so far
and tonight
its just me and the minibar (just up to diminished)
candles from the walmart that
every city has to have
that I bought last night
that I bought last night
I was so excited to
do such normal things with you
when you left last night
with your toothbrush dry
no such details will spoil my plan
that is the kind of girl I am
can you hear room 318...?
man they’re really happening...
they’re a wild bunch
they’re a wild bunch
but if they just knew
what my night was coming too
god would they vomit and run
you have gone too far
you have gone too far
and tonight
it’s just me and the minibar
nobody else
and I sing at the top of my lungs
happy birthday us
happy birthday us
Lyrics submitted by Airyca
Track duration: 04:35
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So please be gentle with me. XD
Hrm! Well.
When I hear this song and read the lyrics so I can better understand what she is singing... I think that the main character (of the song) had a romantic night planned this evening she sings about... likely for an anniversary, because she’s singing “happy birthday us” at the end. But she is devastated to find that the lover in question is... either, dead, or has left her with little to say. If he is dead, I imagine suicide.
And here’s my story to go with it! :D
“Bring two prix fixe dinners up
I'll unwrap the plastic cups
It's just us my love
It's just us my love”
-I honestly have no idea what “prix fixe” means, I thought it said “pre-fixed...” But maybe it means the same thing. I do not know. Regardless, she is describing how they were going to have themselves the evening together.
“I will make the room up nice
Put your insides all on ice
It was real true love
It was real true love”
-She spent some time making the house look nice; especially the bedroom. I imagine the main character’s relationship with this person was loving and affectionate, and they were going to have a night together to celebrate an anniversary... ‘Put your insides all on ice’ to me says that the night would dazzle them both so much that they would pour their hearts out to one another. Something like that... and then also, for some reason, had the man committed suicide... I imagine the ‘insides on ice’ would also be his heart, but in the form of a goodbye note. Well-written, lengthy... Apologetic but explaining why he did it. And that reason, I don’t know. But, the letter was something she saved, as you would save an organ by freezing it. ‘It was real true love’ is her emphasizing that it was a true relationship, pure love, nothing less.
“Close all the windows
Put signs on the handles
And strip down to my dun-dun-duns
You have gone so far
You have gone so far
And tonight
Its just me and the minibar”
-She goes on to further explain the evening’s plans, about how they were going to have their evening undisturbed, and she was down to her ‘dun-dun-duns...’ as in, yes, she was likely naked, or almost there. Lingerie maybe. To help the sort of ‘sexy’ mood. His going so far is how long he’s lasted... In terms of his suicide, perhaps, how long he’s lasted before it all “was too much for him” and he decided death was his only out. Otherwise, if he simply left her, it is how he came so far with their relationship, and maybe she’s even saying that he’s gone so far in “dealing” with her in the relationship. And so, with him gone one way or another, it is just her and the minibar they likely have somewhere in their apartment, or home, or wherever they are. Maybe even a hotel, take your pick.
“Candles from the walmart that
Every city's got to have
That I bought last night
That I bought last night
I was so excited to
Do such normal things with you
When you left last night
With your toothbrush dry”
-More explanation of the evening. Candles, also to help the mood. She bought them in mind of the evening, and she also even goes on to explain that she was excited. She was likely anticipating this night for a while, which helps stress how devastated she is now that he is gone, and they couldn’t even spend this evening together before he left. And she was excited to do “normal things,” perhaps, more simplistic things with him, relationshipwise? Perhaps they do a lot of silly things together, but not it’s nice to just eat dinner together, and end the evening beside one another in the bedroom, like “normal” people. Doing “normal” things. And he left, with his toothbrush dry... a phrase I’m not entirely certain about, but maybe it’s just he left in a hurry... with little real thought put into the decision. Also can apply to whether it was suicide or just walking out.
“No such details will spoil my plan
That is the kind of girl I am
HA HA HA”
-She is merely telling us that she is strong... or trying to be. This is her trying to convince herself that she’s strong enough to move through this loss, to me. She’s telling herself to just finish the evening herself, just eat dinner and mosey off to bed... “HA HA HA” is her trying to make it easier for herself by laughing it off a bit... though it’s a helpless sort of attempt, I think, since it’s laughing, at a time like this.
“Can you hear room 318?
Man they're really happening
They're a wild bunch
They're a wild bunch
But if they just knew
What my night was coming to
God would they vomit and run
You have gone so far
You have gone too far”
-She hears a separate room, which leads me to believe this is likely in a hotel. And she hears them having their fancy evening together, and maybe she’s even a bit jealous that they get to have their fun and she doesn’t because her love is now gone. Her issues this evening are what would make them vomit and run, as people typically don’t like dealing with these sorts of problems, especially if the problems aren’t even theirs to have. Again she mentions his going so far, but now she’s starting to feel angry and tells him he’s gone TOO far... Whether leaving her or committing his suicide, she feels it was totally unnecessary and starts to feel more angry than devastated that he is no longer there.
“So tonight
It's just me and the minibar
Nobody else
And I sing at the top of my lungs
Happy birthday us
Happy birthday us...”
-Further emphasizing her loneliness, she sings that she is alone with the minibar again. Nobody else. And in a fit of overwhelmed solitude, she sings “happy birthday us,” or, “happy anniversary,” to her and her lover. Regardless of if he is there or not.
And that. Is. That!
I hope it wasn’t so long that you died ):
But there’s my input ;D I hope you enjoyed reading, if you managed to read it all :) Thank you! Now off to read what everyone else had to say. =D
and the "I will clean the room up nice" eg, remove all the blood and torn curtains. and "you have gone too far," like maybe he abused her in the relationship and she snapped and killed him?
just a thought.
I have to say, her voice just so filled with emotion. It's...wonderful. But so sad. I love it when she goes into "No such details will spoil my plan", it's great. And the little "huh huh huh!" she does, ahahaha.
Ahem. But anyway. The ending always punches me in the gut - the way she sings "Happy Birthday us" is just so heartwrenching. Oh Amanda.
As far as the "put your insides all on ice" bit, I think she's refering to the drinks. And the "If they only knew what my night was coming to..." : Well, being smashed to bits isn't a very lovely and awesome thing. Especially when you're already depressed as hell. It can only go downhill from there.
And also get the impression that when she says "it was real true love" and "it's just us my love", she's in some way talking to the alchohol too, like a substitute for him, as to say, "Yeah, this is love."
But the Doll's songs can have so many interpretations. This was just mine. =]
I think it's about being lonely after being let down/left by your lover. The circumstance of her being alone on her birthday in a hotel room getting drunk is a metaphor for depression & loneliness. I have gotten drunk while I was depressed & alone & can say that you don't have to do anything else self destructive, you've already put yourself in a sick pathetic state.
I've read other comments, and I think they are way more accurate then my interpretation.
I've read other comments, and I think they are way more accurate then my interpretation.