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I have worked out every small detail, in this plan I've made
This thing which cannot fail.
I dare myself to do this one thing,
You can have my car, go on take everything.
All thats good has gone, has gone
I have tried too long
I don't think I'll miss my mom and dad
The class I cut
All the friends I never had
These things I wont miss wont miss me,
My house my block,
The baby bird that I set free.
The dance that I was never asked to,
The teachers that thought they knew me.
They'll all remember what I did,
They'll ask whos fault was it? Oh she was just a kid.
I'll be glad to go you see,
You don't even know me.
not at all
I'll be glad to go you see,
You don't even know me.
not at all
This thing which cannot fail.
I dare myself to do this one thing,
You can have my car, go on take everything.
All thats good has gone, has gone
I have tried too long
I don't think I'll miss my mom and dad
The class I cut
All the friends I never had
These things I wont miss wont miss me,
My house my block,
The baby bird that I set free.
The dance that I was never asked to,
The teachers that thought they knew me.
They'll all remember what I did,
They'll ask whos fault was it? Oh she was just a kid.
I'll be glad to go you see,
You don't even know me.
not at all
I'll be glad to go you see,
You don't even know me.
not at all
Lyrics submitted by ophelias_puddle
Track duration: 07:31
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"On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Photographer Robert Wiles took a photo of McHale a few minutes after her death.
The photo ran a couple of weeks later in Life magazine accompanied by the following caption:
On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. 'He is much better off without me ... I wouldn't make a good wife for anybody,' ... Then she crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the street, 86 floors below. Then she jumped. In her desperate determination she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale's death Wiles got this picture of death's violence and its composure."
also.kottke.org/misc/images/…
oh, we are as one with the acorn my son
not trunk, not branch, nor tree
you scratch at my skirts and thats what we call fun
i rock you endlessly
i'm Queen of the Hilltop
you're Prince Number One
i see the devil alive in your eyes
i beg you no, don't stop, my baby, my son
dont look at nobody but me
oh, we are as one with the acorn my son
that's where we ought to be
From the perspective of someone who has followed through with suicide, was teken to the ICU, and spent time in the psych ward after: Once you reach that point of depression and make that decision, that's basically how the brain is thinking. Just small, fact-by-bact details that all of a sudden meaning everything and are all too overwhelming, and and of the small, sad things (such as commenting on the classes she cut) are now bitterly funny. It doesn't matter what the age group, the mind starts working on bare, basic function by that point, if even that.
a great video that represents this song wonderfully can be found on youtube.com if you use "Rasputina" as the keyword.
"When did you start playing cello?"
"I started playing the cello when i was nine, and Zoe was probably nine."
"I was nine!"
"Your nine?! That's... great."
Begin song
she never said that this song was about a nine-year-old, it's obviously about teen suicide
it goes on for a bit and then you hear the last song that has her daughter singing a little bit in it.
That's the way I relate to the song putting my own experiences into it.
I've never really fit in or had any real friends. The teachers thought I was a good kid in the past, but I had problems at home and outside of school.
I still can relate to this song. I love it and it made me very teary the first time I heard it.
hate to state the obvious.
I also really related to the baby bird part of the song. when i was a baby i had like cartoons and the baby birds were the cutest things ever and i loved how jasmine set them free in aladin. it was one of the prettiest parts of the movie and even as a little kid i liked the symbolism. i was really obsessive about pets when i was little so setting my pet bird (or fish or turtle... whatever) free would really mean i was leaving that house for good. because baby birds dont come back.
i dont know... i know im going on and on. i still agree with the suicide part. I just kind of say this little girl sitting at a bus stop with a little kitty backpack imagery when i heard this the first time