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Vanessa Carlton => General Vanessa Carlton Discussion => Topic started by: desperado on October 23, 2004, 01:44:02 pm
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This is for anyone who doesn't read the posts in the Live Shows Forum. I was at the show in Chicago last night, and Vanessa explained what some of the new songs are about. We were wrong and right about some of them. Here:
The Wreckage - not about suicide, but wanting to kill people sometimes when she is on the road, and how easy it would be to do so.
She Floats - not about suicide or a girl on drugs; she wrote it about always thinking their are ghosts in her closet, and seeing demons and monsters in the dark. So it may be from the ghost's perspective, I think.
Annie - IS about a 4-year-old girl she met, who is named Victoria, who had leukemia, and fortunately is still alive.
Half A Week Before the Winter - about vampires eating unicorns.
She told us Afterglow is her favorite from Harmonium. And she talked about how Morning Sting (which she played live for the first time) is about how raw emotions can feel to her in the morning.
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rotlf @ half a week
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About Half A Week Before the Winter Comes, I am serious. She really said that is what it was about. Vanessa joked, "People think some of my songs have really ambiguous metaphors..." She mentioned her obsession with vampires, but how they are mean, and unicorns should live forever. She said the song is kind of symbolic in that it happens all over the world, that good things die every day. She said it happens in the music industry.
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And she talked about how Morning Sting (which she played live for the first time) is about how raw emotions can feel to her in the morning.
It's great she's playing it live!
I hope it's a b-side or at least on the Pleased to Meet You DVD/Enhanced CD.
xxx Sarah
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About Half A Week Before the Winter Comes, I am serious. She really said that is what it was about. Vanessa joked, "People think some of my songs have really ambiguous metaphors..." She mentioned her obsession with vampires, but how they are mean, and unicorns should live forever. She said the song is kind of symbolic in that it happens all over the world, that good things die every day. She said it happens in the music industry.
that's what i thought it was about, but I guess people always look too deeply into songs.
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thanks for posting those :D
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You are welcome. Thanks for reading them.
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thanks for posting the explanations from the concert.
Did she say why "morning sting" isn't on the album?
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She just said, "It didn't make it." It seemed like she was going to explain why, but then just repeated herself, "It.. didn't make it."
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Well tis kewl she played it live. Thanks for posting that stuff!
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You are welcome. Thanks for reading them.
Thank you for thanking us for reading them. :?
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She mentioned her obsession with vampires, but how they are mean, and unicorns should live forever.
But when you get bitten by a vampire, don't you become immortal?
ee ee ee ee ah ah ahhhhhh.....
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I was just reporting what she said.
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About Half A Week Before the Winter Comes, I am serious. She really said that is what it was about. Vanessa joked, "People think some of my songs have really ambiguous metaphors..." She mentioned her obsession with vampires, but how they are mean, and unicorns should live forever. She said the song is kind of symbolic in that it happens all over the world, that good things die every day. She said it happens in the music industry.
that's what i thought it was about, but I guess people always look too deeply into songs.
Thanks dear, I was thinking the same thing, hehe ;)
One question though: didn't she say Half A Week Before the Winter was her favorite on the album (in the interview from Brazil)??
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She is a bit abnormal really.
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She said that Afterglow is her favorite song from Harmonium and Half a week before the winter is her favorite lyric she have ever wrote
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vampires.... I like it
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What was Vanessa thinking when she wrote " San Francisco "? :wink:
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What was Vanessa thinking when she wrote " San Francisco "? :wink:
that was a total stephan Jenkins song it is boring and annoying hmmm his music is too
he has made a lot of her music realy boring to play
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She is a bit abnormal really.
That tis why we love her my dear :wink:
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She is a bit abnormal really.
That tis why we love her my dear :wink:
Yeah.. you're right about that... 8)
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What was Vanessa thinking when she wrote " San Francisco "? :wink:
that was a total stephan Jenkins song it is boring and annoying hmmm his music is too
he has made a lot of her music realy boring to play
You must not know his music very well.
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What do you mean? :?: :idea:
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What was Vanessa thinking when she wrote " San Francisco "? :wink:
that was a total stephan Jenkins song it is boring and annoying hmmm his music is too
he has made a lot of her music realy boring to play
You must not know his music very well.
I'm sorry but I have to say this but i realy realy hate him so much he is soo full of himslef I can not stand it
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What was Vanessa thinking when she wrote " San Francisco "? :wink:
that was a total stephan Jenkins song it is boring and annoying hmmm his music is too
he has made a lot of her music realy boring to play
You must not know his music very well.
I'm sorry but I have to say this but i realy realy hate him so much he is soo full of himslef I can not stand it
Yeah he's full of himself, he's a total dick but that doesn't make him a bad musician.
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Morning Sting SHOULD be there! Arrrgh
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Okay, you people are freaking me out. Except that I'm almost a year older and born in a completely different part of the country, I sometimes feel like I could be Vanessa's long-lost twin! 8O
:lol: Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a little there, but if Vanessa has those thoughts behind "The Wreckage", then I'm really freaked out because when I'm driving (especially at night), I feel so trusted because everybody's lives who I meet are in my hands. Sometimes I get almost fixated on their headlights and just start thinking about how easy it would be to cause a disaster. That explanation makes so much sense, but I would never have thought someone, anyone, would ever have written a song about those feelings. It freaks me out. Completely! 8O
If you are bitten by a vampire, yes, you become (almost) immortal, but if you are eaten by a vampire, I'm pretty sure you get completely digested. Ew. :?
"Afterglow" seems to be about my favorite to listen to on the album; I always seem to be reaching for the volume slide when it comes on. And you say Victoria is still alive? :) I think that will make it so much easier to listen to "Annie" without getting too emotionally pashed.
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Even so, I still cry everytime I hear the songs :lol:
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I wonder if Victoria knows about "Annie".
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I wonder if Victoria knows about "Annie".
She does. V was talking about how even though she changed the name for the song because it sings better, she was still so pleased to have a song written about her :D
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Lord Star wrote:
I wonder if Victoria knows about "Annie".
She does. V was talking about how even though she changed the name for the song because it sings better, she was still so pleased to have a song written about her
I see! That's nice to hear!
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In Cleveland she said "Who's to Say" is very, very personal and is for everyone who's ever been looked down on for who they've chosen to be with or the kind (there was emphasis here) of person they've chosen to be with.