Lyrics for Gothic Lolita as interpreted by Sparkle_motion

Gothic Lolita Lyrics
How old are you?
I'm older than you'll ever be
I've been dead a thousand years
And lived only two or three
I don't mind telling you
My life was ended by your hand
The kind of murder where nobody dies
But I don't suppose you'd understand
(Call off the search
We've found her)

If I am Lolita
Then you are a criminal
And you should be killed
By an army of little girls
The law won't arrest you
The world won't detest you
You never did anything
Any man wouldn't do
I'm Gothic Lolita
And you are a criminal
I'm not even legal
I'm just a dead little girl
But ruffles and laces
And candy sweet faces
Directed your furtive hand
I perfectly understand
So it's my fault?
No, Gothic Lolita

Thank you, kind sirs
You've made me what I am today
A bundle of broken nerves
A mouthful of words
I'm still afraid to say
I don't mind telling you
Now that I'm old enough to love
I couldn't begin to even if
My pretty life depended on it
And funny thing, it does
(Call off the search
We've found her)

If I am Lolita
Then you are a criminal
And you should be killed
By an army of little girls
The law won't arrest you
The world won't detest you
You never did anything
Any man wouldn't do
I'm Gothic Lolita
And you are a criminal
I'm not even legal
I'm just a dead little girl
But ruffles and laces
And candy sweet faces
Directed your furtive hand
I perfectly understand
So it's my fault?
No, Gothic Lolita

I am your sugar
I am your cream
I am your anti-American dream

I am your sugar
I am your cream
I am your worst nightmare
Now scream

If I am Lolita
Then you are a criminal
And you should be killed
By an army of little girls
The law won't arrest you
The world won't detest you
You never did anything
Any man wouldn't do
I'm Gothic Lolita
And you are a criminal
I'm not even legal
I'm just a dead little girl
But ruffles and laces
And candy sweet faces
Directed your furtive hand
I perfectly understand
So it's my fault?
No, Gothic Lolita


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DisneyPrincess
10-13-2006

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this song to me sounds like a girl who was raped or sexually asulted as a child

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Halissa
10-22-2006

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It seems like it's mostly based on the story of Lolita, a twelve year old girl who was kidnapped and abused by a middle-aged man called Humbert Humbert in a book actually called 'Lolita' by Vladimir Nabokov.

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akuma2636
10-22-2006

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I agree, I think it's based on the story of 'Lolita'

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ivyautumn
11-04-2006

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This song is what made me read Lolita, actaully...

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xxsyntheticxx
12-23-2006

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yepp i think its based on the novel lolita such a good book

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xxsyntheticxx
12-23-2006

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yepp i think its based on the novel lolita such a good book

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Karlylehatesyou
01-04-2007

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"At 15, Emilie enrolled at the prestigious Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana but left after two years, when a scandal occurred (the reason for which is unknown)." I Found this on Wikipedia, and I think that maybe it has something to do with this. (if the above info is even true.)

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deny
01-16-2007

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unfortunately i know this story too well....
touching lyrics. i don't like the song but lyrics are almost too honest...

sexual abuse kills. it really does. then one day you wake up, see you have grown up and completely dead inside.

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ur_gothic_lolita
02-16-2007

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you guys are dumb a GOTHIC LOLITA is An elegant Gothic Lolita, EGL or Gothic Lolita for short, is a Japanese teen or young adult who dresses in amazingly elaborate Gothic looking babydoll costumes.

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ur_gothic_lolita
02-16-2007

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emilie is in all the gothic lolita cults on vampire freaks

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Idle_talker
02-24-2007

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ur_gothic_lolita, You try to look smart when you are the dumbass.
This song is not about japanese girls dressing as ridiculous dolls (even if Emilie herself likes dressing out). It is rejecting the cultural image of the Lolita as a sexual icon and stating the real deal: minors who are raped and killed by immoral criminals. The "call off the search - we found her" is the typical end of the story of the abduction of a young girl.

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psychololly
02-25-2007

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This song reminds me of a manga I read where a paedophille got into a realtionship with a girl of consenting age (just), but she acted and thought like a child (possibly mentally handicapped). Through this, he basically had the opportunity of legal paedophillia:

'Then you are a criminal
And you should be killed
By an army of little girls
The law won't arrest you
The world won't detest you
You never did anything
Any man wouldn't do'

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l177l30n3
03-30-2007

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I agree with the sexual abuse theory, though weather or not she is speaking from personal experience or not remains to be seen, I certainly hope that she isn't, sexual abuse seems to run rampant in this world, and it is rather sad to think that I cannot allow my son out to play with out keeping continous watch on him, though as I have heard through out the years, everyone is a pedophile until you deem them otherwise. Perhaps she is only proposing caution, or something of the sort. Awareness does need to be raised, I do not think that we are doing enough to stop pedophiles as more often than not children are molested by a family member, or a close friend. You should never trust anyone save yourself with your child, and even then some parents cannot be trust. How sorrowful to think, that some children must suffer through that horrible fate

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l177l30n3
03-30-2007

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I agree with the sexual abuse theory, though weather or not she is speaking from personal experience or not remains to be seen, I certainly hope that she isn't, sexual abuse seems to run rampant in this world, and it is rather sad to think that I cannot allow my son out to play with out keeping continous watch on him, though as I have heard through out the years, everyone is a pedophile until you deem them otherwise. Perhaps she is only proposing caution, or something of the sort. Awareness does need to be raised, I do not think that we are doing enough to stop pedophiles as more often than not children are molested by a family member, or a close friend. You should never trust anyone save yourself with your child, and even then some parents cannot be trust. How sorrowful to think, that some children must suffer through that horrible fate

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CyberKitten0007
04-05-2007

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I think this is about sexual abuse,but it's about the book "Lolita" and it's named after the fashion "Gothic Lolita" to remind people of where the term 'Lolita' comes from because a lot of people are ignorant in a sense that they don't know about the book.

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Beau_Lolita
04-10-2007

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I agree with a lot of what is written above, as no one other than Emilie herself can say what this song REALLY means, it's open to interpretation. You know this bit:
"I don't mind telling you
My life was ended by your hand
The kind of murder where nobody dies
But I don't suppose you'd understand"
I think that could mean that whoever did these dispicable things ended the life of the girl in question, but maybe not the physical life but the emotional one hence "the kind of murder where no body dies"...just a thought. I love this song. The noted at the start really create a spooky childish image and it's kinda sad when you think about the whole story.

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ToxicSophiE
04-13-2007

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Lolita book... it's all I can say about...

Just Perfect!

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ophelia-complex
04-14-2007

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i think people are going at this the wrong way, arguing over whether its a song about sexual abuse or a song about Gothic Lolita fashion. there are obvious sex references, but also obvious gothic loli references (like the title)...

i think that the song is comparing how the two scenes fit together - and when you think about it, the fashion could be interpreted as kind of sick. i mean, dont get me wrong, i AM a part time gothic loli, and if i could possibly afford it i would be a fulltimer. the trend isnt actually named after Nabokov's book, the word Lolita actually means *Young Girl* and its been used as a girls name for many years. the gothic lolita fashion and its accociated subcategories (especially sweet lolita) basically do involve dressing in a childish, yet revealing and fairly sexualised way, similar to the Maid trend in tokyo. when my mother first heard of the trend she felt it was a bit wrong dressing and acting like that, because a person who finds schoolgirls or little children attractive is not the kind of person you want to spend time with. however, a quote from another lolita i have talked to fits nicely - "all women are sexual in the eyes of some people. what the lolita trends do is give us power over how we are viewed. the Gyaru (western girls) are sexualised in a way which is chosen by the male dominated celebrity and media industry, wheras lolitas dress in a way that appeals to them individually. we do this for us, we dont care whether men like it".

the verse *But ruffles and laces
And candy sweet faces
Directed your furtive hand
I perfectly understand * suggests to me the links between the two - the persona of Gothic Lolita tells her abuser that she realises its her fault shes been abused, and that she understands that by dressing like that, she was attracting trouble. this is how many girls who have been abused feel (has anyone heard Suzanne Vega's "Luka"?)
so yeah. the way i look at it, this song looks at the lifestyle of the Gothic Lolita, mixing this in with the other use of the word Lolita - a young girl attracting a much older man, as in the book.
Emilie Autumn is heavily influenced by the japanese lolita style, in both her looks and music, and as has been said before, there have been rumours about trouble in her childhood. could it be that through experience, she has melded these two ideas together because of the matching names?

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Ender666999
04-18-2007

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Emilie herself mentioned in her journal that this song was inspired by personal events; in one interview, she mentions a fan being a "fellow rape victim". Whatever it was that really happened, something horrible has been following her around for quite some time and this song is a way for her to deal with what happened, something she's made quite clear. She also touched on the EGL aspect of it, which this song can also be considered to be indirect commentary on. It ultimately seems to be about how horrible personal events can resonate years later, after one thinks they should've recovered. However, there are indeed other layers to the song (such as it being commentary on current Gothic styles, a subject she's also touched upon in Dead is the New Alive).

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a345jkl
06-02-2007

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I just wanted to throw this out there for people that might not know the definition of Lolita (I looked it up). Lolita means: A sexually precocious young girl.

I had no idea. I had only ever known Lolita as the fashion trend. This really shocked me.

Anyway, I agree with the sexual abuse theory.

And about the song itself, I think the music is beautiful and the lyrics are haunting and sad but her voice really grates on me. Am I the only one who feels this way?

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CyberKitten0007
07-04-2007

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I forgot to add this ,but it also talks about how people who commit sexual abuse crimes are not really looked down upon as much as they should be and that rape isn't considered a big deal in our culture. The victim is usually blamed. Girls are especially blamed usually because of how they look or how they dress.
The line "a kind of murder where nobody dies" sums it up perfectly.

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ladyxpandoraxbroken
08-18-2007

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I guess I now know why this song touched me. I was sexually abused when I was younger and the words "the kind of murder where nobody dies" really stood out. I kind felt in a way, that she sort of knew what I went through, so yes, I agree with the sexual abuse theory.

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HeartlessHateful
09-04-2007

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Emilie Autumn wrote this because she was sexually harassed/abused by a teacher when she was younger. So basically, the song refers probably to the book called 'Lolita', however, it also refers to the style of fashion called Gothic Lolita, dark and dressy.

I really have nothing else to add, but I felt this needed to be said.

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Thesaya
10-05-2007

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From Emilie Autumns webjournal:

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:41 am Post subject: Gothic Lolita, Round 2

So I'm home tonight finishing the lyrics for a song on my upcoming "Opheliac" album entitled "Gothic Lolita." Oddly enough, it's not about the fashion, though I am a huge fan of that as well (duh), but rather about the real thing, if you know wheat I mean. Really, what's more "gothic" than a child who grows up dead because of emotional murder at the hands of hapless pedophiles? Autobiographical? Well, sure, but find me a little girl who hasn't been fucked around with by some professor or other and I'll turn a rat into a bouquet of tea roses, I'm not so fucking special. So I'm having a bit of a hard time with it I don't mind saying, or maybe I do, because songs generally come so very easily to me, like trains of thought that happen to magically rhyme - not boasting a bit, because there's plenty of shit I'm bad at, like driving cars for example. So it really traumatizes me when the songs don't come easily because of some stupid block or because I'm subconsciously denying that any of this ever happened. Writing this song puts me into a really foul mood too. Time for some wine and soy cheese.



That ought to settle it, no?

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Thesaya
10-05-2007

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Got the wrong post date and subject It's supposed to be:

Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 2:46 am Post subject: Gothic Lolita

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