Night Reconnaissance

Night Reconnaissance is a song by The Dresden Dolls.

HistoryEdit

In 2008, the music video for 'Night Reconnaissance' was released.

MeaningEdit

The song centers around a girl who lived in a rich suburban neighborhood as a child, and was a victim of bullying. The song implies that she has become an aspiring script writer, basing her films' characters on the personas and prejudgments assumed to her by the bullies, which she hopes will be directed by Steven Spielberg. She attempts to get back at all the people who had done her harm by stealing Garden Gnomes and other various lawn ornaments from the homes in her old town[1]. Soon however, she develops a strong emotional attachment to the stolen ornaments. Themes present in the song include social ostracism and loneliness.

LyricsEdit

Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes

Gotta forgive them, I guess, but whose side are you on?

Driving around my hometown, I remember it all

Dropping my lunchbox and tampax all over the hall

And they said...

You are a socialist cokehead, we know from your clothes

You are a Satanist worshipper of all things evil

You think you're poet, a folksinger poser, nah-oh

A volleyball player?! you've got to be kidding us all

So we hide from the guns

On a night reconnaissance

Steal flamingos and gnomes

From the dark side of the lawn

No one can stop us

The script is a work of genius

No one has bought the rights yet but

We're not giving up

Every unwanted lawn jockey fits in the script

Directed by Spielberg and starring the masochist club

Marion looked like hell

Stuck in that ridiculous shell

Give us some light and god's pure love

We know what you've been dreaming of

Give us some light and god's pure love

We know what you've been dreaming of

Give us some light and god's pure love

We're taking you to Hollywood

Hollywood

And we hide from the guns

On a night reconnaissance

Steal flamingos and gnomes

From the dark side of the lawn

One plays a socialist coke-head we dressed in my clothes

One plays a Satanist worshipper of all things evil

One plays a poet who starts up a band of his own

One plays a volleyball player with both her wrists broke

And we hide from the guns

On a night reconnaissance

Steal flamingos and gnomes

From the dark side of the lawn

And we give them good homes

Give them love they've never known

In the loft, in the lawn,

In the town where I was born

In the loft, in the bar,

In the town where I was born

ReleaseEdit

• No, Virginia... - 2008
• Night Reconnaissance (single) - 2008
• Who Killed Amanda Palmer (Alternate Tracks) - 2008