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Related track: Anorexic Beauty
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Anorexic Beauty
Lyrics
Sitting alone on a cold bar stool
Your cold, hard eyes make me feel a fool
Pastel white features, high cheek-bones
Scarlet-blooded lips and deathly tones
The girl of my nightmares
Sultry and corpse-like
The girl of my nightmares.
Brittle fingers and thin cigarettes
So hard to tell apart
She hasn't spoken yet
You put your hand on mine
Death white on brown
Those whirlpool eyes
Well I begin to drown
The girl of my nightmares
Erotic and skullfaced
The girl of my nightmares.
Anorexic beauty
Featherweight perfection
Anorexic beauty
Underweight goddess.
Sitting alone on a cold bar stool
you're so hard to tell apart
She hasn't spoken yet
Pastel white features, high cheekbones
Scarlet-blooded lips and deathly tones
The girl of my nightmares
Sultry and corpse-like
The girl of my nightmares.
Anorexic beauty
Featherweight perfection
Anorexic beauty
Underweight goddess.
Dedicated
Pulp dedicated Track No: 7 - Anorexic Beauty to Lena Zavaroni.
Details
It wasn’t originally a Pulp song. Written by David Kurley of early-Pulp contemporaries New Model Soldier, it was sold to Russell for £1 after a gig. The song dates back to an earlier David Kurley band, Blimp, who featured a young Magnus Doyle on drums.
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My Personal View On The Track
I believe the song aims to point out the contradictory feelings we have towards a person with anorexia we may love and care for the individual and even find them beautiful, while finding the way they look horrific due to effects of the anorexia. Which can lead to a conflict of feelings not only for the individual with anorexia but for their family and friends.
It is sad to note that some Pro-Anorexia websites use the song to justify anorexia as a lifestyle chose, when in fact it's a physiological response to a mental health issue and also shows that the creators of such websites have missed the point of the song.
Robcamstone