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Dana, my darling, I'm writing to you.
Cause your father passed away, it was a beautiful day
And I don't want to bother You anymore,
I used to hope you'd come back
But not anymore Dana.
My eyes might have betrayed me, but I have seen
Your picture on the cover of a filthy magazine
And I think my heart just cannot handle that
Dana, my darling, would be so bad.
Dana my darling I'm writing to you
Your mother passed away it was a really rainy day
And I didn't mean to bother you anymore
Your mother wished: Come visit your faters grave, Dana
Your father disowned you because you have sinned
But he did forgive you in condition he was in
And I you won't do those things anymore
Dana My darling I'm waiting for
Dana O'Hara oh, Dana my dear,
How I wish that my Dana was here
Little Dana O'Hara decided one day
to travel away, faraway
No, you can't surprise me anymore
I have seen it all before
But it seems I cannot let you go
Anyhow, Dana, Dana, Dana, Dana
And I think that I told you, I'd wait for you forever
Now I know someone else's holding you,
so, for the first time in my life - I must lie
Lie's a sin, mess that I am in,
Love is not the thing I feel know
I promise you: I won't write again 'til the sun sets
behind your grave
Dana, oh, Dana I'm writing to you, I heard you passed
away it was a beautiful day
I'm old and I feel time will come for me, my diarys
pages are full of thee
Dana O'Hara oh, Dana my dear,
How I wish that my Dana was here
Little Dana O'Hara decided one day
to travel away, faraway
By Fistan Majere
Cause your father passed away, it was a beautiful day
And I don't want to bother You anymore,
I used to hope you'd come back
But not anymore Dana.
My eyes might have betrayed me, but I have seen
Your picture on the cover of a filthy magazine
And I think my heart just cannot handle that
Dana, my darling, would be so bad.
Dana my darling I'm writing to you
Your mother passed away it was a really rainy day
And I didn't mean to bother you anymore
Your mother wished: Come visit your faters grave, Dana
Your father disowned you because you have sinned
But he did forgive you in condition he was in
And I you won't do those things anymore
Dana My darling I'm waiting for
Dana O'Hara oh, Dana my dear,
How I wish that my Dana was here
Little Dana O'Hara decided one day
to travel away, faraway
No, you can't surprise me anymore
I have seen it all before
But it seems I cannot let you go
Anyhow, Dana, Dana, Dana, Dana
And I think that I told you, I'd wait for you forever
Now I know someone else's holding you,
so, for the first time in my life - I must lie
Lie's a sin, mess that I am in,
Love is not the thing I feel know
I promise you: I won't write again 'til the sun sets
behind your grave
Dana, oh, Dana I'm writing to you, I heard you passed
away it was a beautiful day
I'm old and I feel time will come for me, my diarys
pages are full of thee
Dana O'Hara oh, Dana my dear,
How I wish that my Dana was here
Little Dana O'Hara decided one day
to travel away, faraway
By Fistan Majere
Lyrics submitted by Fistan
Track duration: 06:01
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The part of "lies being so sinful" is like religius, the first time i listen to this song carefully i though the story is the same of "shy".(but the "unopened" relation i didnt knew =D
maybe dana was "exiled" from her family, the dautgher of the priest or like XIX strong protestant father xD, she got pregnant & they sent her to "magdalene sisters institute" & later she had to sell herself to survive ¿with child xD? her religious father never gave up nd so the song writtes itself.
The singer may even be the shy little church boy priest helper, madly inlove 4 her.
someone ask the writter of the song plz O.o
lyrics says "your little angel ain't always so clean" and this is talking about her child. The lyric "
My eyes might have betrayed me, but I have seen Your picture on the cover of a filthy magazine" says
that Dana is not a "clean" Person. The lyrics also allude to dana and her father having a bad
relationship and her and her mother have a good relationship.The mothers dying wish was to meet the
father who was the man in Mary-Lou. He sees Dana as his sin and does not want anything to do with her.
The man it seems is sending the letters also has importance in the fact that he must have met the
parents. I also think he is the man in Shy. After saying " I promise you: I won't write again 'til the
sun sets behind your grave" he goes to a diner to drown his sorrows and meets a waitress who he falls in
love with, but is afraid because she's " Acting like my Dana". I believe the waitress to be Talullah.
They fall in love untill the waitress starts flurting with the Long Haired Drummer and so the man leaves
them to be happy and years go by. He is now old and hears of dana dying and writes for the last time.
Meanwhile dana keeps reciving letters but does not read them. As time goes by she sees the letters as an
old woman, but is afraid to read them which is said in the song Unopened.
Does he speak about her age?
Or he calls her "little" because he believes that she didn't do anything important during her life?
At the time this song came out I'd buy the literal interpretation. But 4 albums later, their lyrics are far too poetic and metaphorical to be taken at face value.
~The lie he's telling is that he no longer loves her.~
The lie is that "I'd wait for you forever", but since Dana has someone else ("someone else is holding you"), he has no choice but to move on.
Lie's a sin, mess that I am in,
Love is not the thing I feel know
I promise you: I won't write again 'til the sun sets
behind your grave"\
This is the only part that hasn't really been explained.
He's a very unsinfull person, so this is the only rare occasion where he would lie.
The lie he's telling is that he no longer loves her.
He knows that she doesn't even care about his letters due to her unresponsiveness, so to not bother her anymore, he will only write to her after she passes on. (Which he does)