Emilie Autumn – Shalott Lyrics

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:00:59 +0000

This song in its entirety leaves me, well, speechless. I’m actually at a loose to describe how pleasing this song is. Emilie does show her graceful singing ability in this song along with her outstanding violin skills. The instrumental part that gets me is located at 1.20, mainly because the bass actually hits harder and more synth instruments are added for a brief time.

The song is not only sung very well but the story Emilie sings is fabulous. Pining for love, never finding it, or wanting someone who doesn’t even notice you are there, and wishing to be at another place; is life.

I have yet to hear a song that tells such as story on a level as told by Emilie Autumn, and this is what makes Emilie the sensual artist she is.

== Shalott Lyrics ==

She’s locked up with a spinning wheel
She can’t recall what it was like to feel
She says, “This room’s gonna be my grave
And there’s no one who can save me,”
She sits down to her colored thread
She knows lovers waking up in their beds
She says, “How long can I live this way
Is there no one I can pay to let me go
‘Cause I’m half sick of shadows
I wanna see the sky
Everyone else can watch as the sun goes down
So why can’t I

Chorus:
And it’s raining
And the stars are falling from the sky
And the wind
And the wind I know it’s cold
I’ve been waiting
For the day I will surely die
And it’s here
And it’s here for I’ve been told
That I’ll die before I’m old
And the wind I know it’s cold…”

She looks up to the mirrored glass
She sees a handsome horse and rider pass
She says, “This man’s gonna be my death
‘Cause he’s all I ever wanted in my life
And I know he doesn’t know my name
And that all the girls are all the same to him
But still I’ve got to get out of this place
‘Cause I don’t think I can face another night
Where I’m half sick of shadows
And I can’t see the sky
Everyone else can watch as the tide comes in
So why can’t I

Chorus:

And it’s raining
And the stars are falling from the sky
And the wind
And the wind I know it’s cold
I’ve been waiting
For the day I will surely die
And it’s here
And it’s here for I’ve been told
That I’ll die before I’m old
And the wind I know it’s cold…”

But there’s willow trees
And little breezes, waves, and walls, and flowers
And there’s moonlight every single night
As I’m locked in these towers
So I’ll meet my death
But with my last breath I’ll sing to him my love
And he’ll see my face in another place,”
And with that the glass above

Her cracked into a million bits
And she cried out, “So the story fits
But then I could have guessed it all along
‘Cause now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me,”
She went down to her little boat
And she broke the chains and began to float away
And as the blood froze in her veins she said,
“Well then that explains a thing or two
‘Cause I know I’m the cursed one
I know I’m meant to die
Everyone else can watch as their dreams untie
So why can’t I

Chorus:

As Always, Here is A Fix.

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Lyrical Saint – Emilie Autumn

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:29:14 +0000

“I’m your Opheliac
I’ve been so disillusioned
I know you’d take me back
But still I feign confusion
I couldn’t be your friend
My world was too unstable
You might have seen the end
But you were never able
To keep me breathing
As the water rises up again
Before I slip away

You know the games I play
And the words I say
When I want my own way
You know the lies I tell
When you’ve gone through hell
And I say I can’t stay
You know how hard it can be
To keep believing in me
When everything and everyone
Becomes my enemy and when
There’s nothing more you can do
I’m gonna blame it on you
It’s not the way I want to be
I only hope that in the end you will see
It’s the Opheliac in me

I’m your Opheliac
My stockings prove my virtues
I’m open to attack
But I don’t want to hurt you
Whether I swim or sink
That’s no concern of yours now
How could you possibly think
You had the power to know how
To keep me breathing
As the water rises up again
Before I slip away

Studies show:
Intelligent girls are more depressed
Because they know
What the world is really like
Don’t think for a beat it makes it better
When you sit her down and tell her
Everything gonna be all right
She knows in society she either is
A devil or an angel with no in between
She speaks in the third person
So she can forget that she’s me

Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt
Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt
I love

Not only is Emily Autumn a prodigy child for the violin, but this extremely gothic and gorgeous female has a lot to say. Luckily for us, she says it pretty damn well. Along with these lyrics you can listen along to this muse’s sultry voice and enjoy the sudden quiver up the spine that will soon follow.

This song of course makes a reference to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, along with some very deep emotions on how society is and how Emilie feels about it. I really love this song and more of Emilie Autumns songs… the only thing that has taken me forever and a day to completely enjoy how she sings off key on purpose.

I know it is just a joke but still, it can ruin a song and it has at times annoyed me even more when I’m already annoyed from other things. Then again.. I’m just picky.

As Always, Here is A Fix.

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