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4st. 7lbs. Lyrics
I’m too much to die
I'm not enough to stay alive I'm sitting in the middle waiting Days since I last pissed Cheeks sunken and despaired So gorgeous sunk to six stone Lose my only remaining home See my third rib appear A week later all my flesh disappears Stretching taut, cling-film on bone I'm getting better Karen says I've reached my target weight Kate and Emma and Kristin know it's fake Problem is diet's not a big enough word I wanna be so skinny that I rot from view I want to walk in the snow And not leave a footprint I want to walk in the snow And not soil its purity Stomach collapsed at five Lift up my skirt my sex is gone Naked and lovely and 5st. 2 May I bud and never flower My vision's getting blurred But I can see my ribs and I feel fine My hands are trembling stalks And I can feel my breasts are sinking Mother tries to choke me with roast beef And sits savouring her sole ryvitta That's the way you're built my father said But I can change, my cocoon shedding I want to walk in the snow And not leave a footprint I want to walk in the snow And not soil its purity Kate and Kristin and Kit Kat All things I like looking at Too weak to fuss, too weak to die Choice is skeletal in everybody's life I choose my choice, I starve to frenzy Hunger soon passes and sickness soon tires Legs bend, stockinged I am Twiggy And I don't mind the horror that surrounds me Self-worth scatters, self-esteem's a bore I long since moved to a higher plateau This disipline's so rare so please applaud Just look at the fat scum who pamper me so Yeh 4st. 7, an epilogue of youth Such beautiful dignity in self-abuse I've finally come to understand life Through staring blankly at my navel
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07-09-2007
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09-16-2007
In '4st 7lbs' you mention some names, including Kate. Is that Kate Moss?
"It's Kate as in Kate Moss, Emma as in Emma Balfour, Kristin as in Kristin McMenemy, and Karen as in the Sky agony aunt."
Is it true that you were vaguely anorexic yourself?
"Vaguely; you could say that I had an eating problem. Because if I ate too much, and I was drinking, I got all puffed up and blotchy. And I'm too vain to be like that. I am a vain person. I couldn't handle looking like that, I couldn't look in the mirror. All is vanity."
When you were at Glastonbury you were in good shape, like you'd been working out.
"In the last year, I've been doing loads of exercise. I do about 1500 sit-ups every day. I do some weights as well, I take them on tour with me. It's about trying to control my body; to eat less and get fit. I want a flat stomach, I wanna six-pack, I wanna stomach like Brad Pitt. I'm incredibly vain. But when I get puffed up, all the marks on my body get swollen up. They all grow and turn a funny colour, and I don't like looking like that. When I go to bed and I see those wounds, they look so nasty. It's better when they're a bit faded."
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02-10-2008
It's About Living With Anorexia
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09-29-2008
All things I like looking at
I've always thought "Kit Kat" actually referred to the chocolate as in the speaker likes to look at it, as a test/proof of self-control, or "food porn"?
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04-09-2009
"Yeh 4st. 7, an epilogue of youth
Such beautiful dignity in self-abuse" breaks my heart every time.
06-27-2009
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06-27-2009
I know the number 11 is quite significant in numerology but i'm not sure what it means.
Just an observation. Probably way off !
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06-27-2009
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07-10-2009
I don't find it disturbing though; it's just the flat out truth about what an Anorexic goes through. They take pride in seeing the ribs poke through their skin, hunger panes, feeling dizzy. It's a general meaning.
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