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Got your eyes open, but you cannot see
Got what you want, do you got what you need?
The one day you see something you cannot bear
Telling you girl, yes you better beware
Her papa loved her so much you could see
Loved her too much if you know what I mean
So, she left home young,
Yeah she moved town to town
Looking for love that she never found
She played it hard and yes she played it rough
Made her feel safe and it made her feel tough
And rock by rock she built those walls everyday
Built herself a tower so far away
And from up high in that castle
She knew no one could get too close to touch
And if life and death were such a game
Why did they all make such a fuss?
And if birds could fly high over their troubles
She gonna find some of her own wings and fly
And no one could convince or pay her double
Or tell her she was too young to die
Oh Caroline, Caroline
Got what you want, do you got what you need?
The one day you see something you cannot bear
Telling you girl, yes you better beware
Her papa loved her so much you could see
Loved her too much if you know what I mean
So, she left home young,
Yeah she moved town to town
Looking for love that she never found
She played it hard and yes she played it rough
Made her feel safe and it made her feel tough
And rock by rock she built those walls everyday
Built herself a tower so far away
And from up high in that castle
She knew no one could get too close to touch
And if life and death were such a game
Why did they all make such a fuss?
And if birds could fly high over their troubles
She gonna find some of her own wings and fly
And no one could convince or pay her double
Or tell her she was too young to die
Oh Caroline, Caroline
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Rachel Barber was slim, pretty, had a boyfried & she danced. Caroline wrote many letters describing her life, her hate.
'Robertson wrote of Rachel: "Strikingly attractive, dancer's body, very clear pale skin, hypnotic green eyes, wild free spirit, passionate, charming, moody, mysterious."'
It seems that Caroline may have wanted to kill Rachel Barber because she was envious of the life that she thought she would never achieve herself - & so she wanted to kill her identity as Caroline & take the new identity of Rachel by killing Rachel (if that makes sense?).
In the song the lines 'The one day you see something you cannot bear
Telling you girl, yes you better beware' it could mean when Caroline saw Rachel she saw her beauty, talent and grace and she couldn't bear it. so Rachel 'better beware' of Carolines bitter jealousy.
'A prolific note maker, Robertson wrote down her plan to lure Rachel with an offer of money to take part in a bogus pyschology study, then drug her, disfigure her and dump her body. For two days Robertson kept Rachel's body in a cupboard in her Prahran flat before she hired a van and buried her in a shallow grave in bush on her father's property near Kilmore.'
There is a movie about it 'in her skin(I Am You)' & the song is played at the end credits.
Its crazy what this band can do with some strings behind them....Caroline and What You Want are great songs, JBT should definitely do more of this.
Sounds beautiful as well.