In a haunting dance of memory and mourning, this song encapsulates the torment of holding onto what is gone. The "Girl in Amber" symbolizes someone preserved in the past, unchanging and untouched by time, while the world around continues to move. The repetitive nature of the phone that no longer rings and the song that keeps spinning since 1984 underscores a ceaseless cycle of grief and remembrance. Each verse serves as a poignant reminder of loss—whether it's letting go or desperately clinging to echoes of what used to be. Ultimately, it's about confronting the painful stillness in one's soul after losing a loved one, where even silence speaks volumes.
Girl in Amber
Lyrics
Some go and some stay behind
Some never move at all
Girl in amber trapped forever, spinning down the hall
Let no part of her go unremembered, clothes across the floor
Girl in amber lumber slumber shuts the bathroom door
The phone, the phone, the phone it rings, it rings, it rings no more
The song, the song, the song it spins since nineteen eighty-four
The phone, the phone, the phone, it rings, the phone, it rings no more
The song, the song it's been spinning now since nineteen
And if you want to bleed, just bleed
And if you want to bleed, just bleed
And if you want to bleed, don't breathe
A word
Just step away and let the world spin
And now in turn, you turn
You kneel, lace up his shoes, your little blue-eyed boy
Take him by his hand, go move and spin him down the hall
I get lucky, I get lucky 'cause I tried again
I knew the world it would stop spinning now since you've been gone
I used to think that when you died you kind of wandered the world
In a slumber till you crumbled, were absorbed into the earth
Well, I don't think that any more
The phone it rings no more
The song, the song it spins, it spins now since nineteen eighty-four
The song, the song, the song it spins, it's been a spinning now
And if you'll hold me I will tell you that you know that
And if you want to leave, don't breathe
And if you want to leave, don't breathe
And if you want to leave, don't breathe a word
And let the world turn
The song, the song it spins, the song, it spins, it spins no more
The phone, it rings, it rings
And you won't stay
Don't touch me
Don't touch me
Don't touch me
Don't touch me
Writer(s): Nicholas Cave, Warren Ellis
Copyright(s): Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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