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Just like an amnesiac, trying to get my senses back.
Oh where did they go.
Actor (2009)
Oh but I'd pay anything to keep my conscience clean.
I'm keeping my eyes on the the exit sign. Steady now.
Actor (2009)
I'm not the pawn to your king
I'm not your world on a string
I'm not anyone you'll beat
I'm not anything
Marry Me (2007)
I'm not your mother's favorite dog
I'm not the carpet you walk on
I'm not one small atomic bomb
I'm not any any any anything at all.
Marry Me (2007)
While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my days
in backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.
While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day,
I'm inside a still life with the other absentee.
Marry Me (2007)
We are waiting on a telegram to give us news of the fall
I am sorry to report dear Paris is burning after all
We have taken to the streets in open rejoice revolting
We are dancing a black waltz — fair Paris is burning after all.
Paris Is Burning (2006)
A lot of the songs have a duality about them; one part is totally sincere, and there's another part that is kind of smirking and making light of it all. Or there's a very dark streak about it.
Honey can you reach the spots that need oiling and fixing.
H E L P Help Me.
Actor (2009)
Sticks and stones have made me smarter
it's words that cut me under my armor they say...
Paris Is Burning (2006)
Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say
"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.
Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear"
Paris Is Burning (2006)
Your skin's so fair its not fair
Marry Me (2007)
I do a dance to make the rain come,
Smile to keep the sky from falling down, down, down, down.
Collect the love that I've been given
Build a nest for us to sleep in here
You know it's real.
Marry Me (2007)
Little lamb, what's your plan?
Greener pastures in the sky?
It's a shame you want to die know why
Just to find you've been blinded to the greenest of pastures they're right here on Earth
For what it's worth you're not the first to break my heart.
Marry Me (2007)
Now, now ...
You don't mean that say you're sorry
You don't mean that ... I'll make you sorry
Marry Me (2007)
I'm a debut artist, I'm not established — nobody would write about it if they didn't like it. So I'm waiting for the next album for the backlash.
QRO Magazine interview (2007)
I read an interview with her one time, where she was asked, something along the lines of "Why do you write from the perspective of a lot of characters?" And she said very simply and eloquently "because they're more interesting than I am."
The Kate Bush Story (2014)
You can hear one note of a Kate Bush song, or one note of her voice even, and know immediately what it is. And that is the biggest feat of any artist, especially when you consider, you know, all the roads that she's gone down.
The Kate Bush Story (2014)
I was kind of doing this before I did anything else.
QRO Magazine interview (2007)
I like the material, which makes it easy to sort of delve into it, and then also I was too tired to be nervous. I was just happy. The anxiety, the anxious energy was not there, because I was too exhausted.
I traded my plot of land for a plane to anywhere
Oh where did you go.
And I can't see the future but I know it's watching me.
All my old friends aren't so friendly
And all my old haunts are now haunting me.
Actor (2009)