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leslie
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 Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:50 pm Post subject: evil B-side sister? |
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Hi,
I was listening to Jens Lekman's 'At the Department of Forgotten Songs', the sentence in blue beneath baffled me. What does it mean? Thanks in advance.
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At the department of forgotten songs
There is a crying girl
She's lonely
She's just sixteen
Or forty-five
She's been abandoned for almost all her life
She can remember the boy who kissed her
But it was meant for her evil B-side sister |
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Mister Micawber
Joined: 23 Mar 2006
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Location: Yokohama
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Hard to tell precisely. B-side is the other side of a hit phonograph record (do you remember those?) This line seems to be referring to the girl who was kissed as having two personalities-- a good side and and evil side (or here, a virtuous side and a lascivious side, perhaps). Anyway, she has been having trouble finding a soulmate-- maybe she has not been honest in presenting her true self to the right men.
Something like that.
(Help! Anybody?)
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