Diving Bell Composer: Jay Clifford |
Studio Recordings: | unknown |
Releases: | unreleased |
First Performance: | May 11, 2004 (Funk Box - Baltimore, MD): SHN file [20.2 MB] |
Song Information: | This will probably become a Rosebud song. The lyrics are inspired by the novel The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life and Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby. |
Lyrical Interpretation: | Taken from a post from Opium2 by Melissa Bollbach |
She curls her fingers And shakes like a baby She's always been uneasy in the dark She twists like a radio The frequencies weaving The sanctuary of her restless mind As she takes one more breath from the diving bell She floats by the window A dress hung out on the line She's always been weak in the knees She bends like a photograph The chemicals bleeding Entreats her courage for the tie that binds Her to take one more breath from the diving bell Finally asleep she is sold Each breath for a handsome price Lying hand in hand side by side A woman and her sacrifice She twists like a radio An ocean of static Endlessly droning a heart designed To take one more breath from the diving bell And she takes one more breath from the diving bell