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