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Song Info
Genre
Charts
Peak #426
Peak in subgenre #67
Author
jaik willis
Rights
2005
Uploaded
October 01, 2006
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.8 MB • 128 kbps • 4:09
Story behind the song
Kristen asked me to write her a song. I used some parallels between the tragic lovers Orpheus (the singer) and Eurydice (who died from a poison fang in her vein) , to talk about her terrible heroin addiction
Lyrics
A- D- G C
kristen , love is pain you're my hero in cellophane
F E
i know you told your daddy on his dying day
D- G
you would put me down but your back again
C F
13's not your lucky number, and your friend was even younger
Dsus2 Gadd9/d
but what's it mean to be "old enough"
C F
now your legally a woman and you can do what you want
Dsus2 Gadd9/d
you can check yourself out you can sign off
F C
you would sell yourself to anybody else to
D- G
to get to heaven you gotta go through hell
D- G
just to get 1/2 well you got to go through hell &
C D- G E- D- C D- G
don't look back i won't look back please don't look back
hit hit
you used your 9 lives young please don't fuck up this one
D- Gsus G
nurse, another shot of adrenaline for kristen
A- D-
on the floor & barely breathing , your poor heart ain't even beating
G C
the hole in your arm's not healing, gone for days now without eating
F E
hearing voices noone’s speaking, the filthy mattress where your sleeping
D- G
is where your working holding meetings, Daddy's looking down and seeing
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C F
the family's already started grieving, you said you'd die for me
Dsus2 Gadd9/d
for just an hour to be feeling
C F
you'll pay whatever it costs, do anything to get your sick off
Dsus2 Gadd9/d
your lips are blue and your soul is leaving
F C
you act like its romantic, 1/2 dead in your mama's attic
D- G
trying to get to heaven as fast as you can
D- G
just to get back home you got to go through hell and
C D- G E- D- C D- G
don't look back i won't look back please don't look back
D- C D- C
Orpheus is crying by the riverside softly
F E F G
singing to you kristen christening you Eurydice
F E D-
descending through the Domain of the dead and the deadly
F G- A-
to try to help you to the surface if you want to come with me
F G- A-
got to score something that’s clean
got to score something that’s real
got to score something that’s pure and good
find another way to deal
A- D- G C
kristen , love is pain you're my heroin cellophane
F E
i know you told your daddy on his dying day
D- G- A-
is his little girl coming home again?
