SONG | ||
Slide | ||
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Artist | The Dresden Dolls | |
Written by | Amanda Palmer | |
Length | 4:30 | |
Album(s) | The Dresden Dolls |
Slide is a song by The Dresden Dolls.
History
Meaning
Lyrics
- A late April day and it's sunny outside
- And a red little girl's at the top of a slide
- And an an orange old man at the bottom
- Wants to take her for a ride
- As she slips and she tumbles the orange man mumbles
- Pennies crash down from the sky
- And he tells her he'll take her away where it's safe
- And of course it is a lie
- She's a third the down and her skirts are yanked up
- And her little girl cheeks start to wrinkle
- But her smile is wide and her legs are spread wider
- Her hair growing long and her hips getting larger
- Past getting brighter
- Light growing weaker
- She is halfway down now but the man is impatient
- Shakes change in his pocket he might have to wait but she's coming
- She's coming
- She's coming
- Who are you blaming?
- They're just playing!
- That's a good one
- Who left the playground
- A good decade before the bell rang?
- As she starts to draw nearer the view becomes clearer
- The splinters are painful but she doesn't feel it
- The pennies were loaded and as they exploded
- She starts to spin out of control...
- Her eyes are now closing her sleeves are unrolling
- Up past her head and her veins are all showing
- Not that she noticed she's thoroughly focused on
- One old man who's laughing...
- Who's laughing
- Who's laughing
- Don't worry
- I've got you
- Don't worry
- I've got you
- Don't worry
- I've got you
- Don't worry
- I've got you
- The orange man got you...
- A late April day and it's sunny outside
- And a red little girl's at the top of a slide
- And an an orange old man at the bottom
- Wants to take her for a ride
Release
- The Dresden Dolls (album) - 2003
- Live at the Roundhouse - 2007