@RageModeGo Unless Jack and Jill are allegories for the two components to bipolar disorder, but since we're talking about art here it might be silly to get technical.
You know what ruins it? The absolute SLAUGHTER of the English language. "Halfes"? Fucking REALLY? HALVES. For the love of God, please refrain from mixing up "your" and "you're," and "they're," "their," and "there." It's an awesome song ruined by idiocy. How old are you, three? If you can't type you have no business on the internet.
@magenta471 Have you actually SEEN the internet? Idiocy abound. Furthermore, if you're looking for grammatical absolution in a youtube video, you're sadly delusional and should probably get a hobby or take some Dickens. I agree that language abuse is infuriating, but you're screaming at the wrong person, and it's probably never going to get any better.
@magenta471 No, actually, the lyric is "halfes". The song is called Half Jack, and the actual lyrics include a play on the word "half" at every opportunity. I own the companion piano book for this album, and one of the official lyrics is "I half a lot to think about", as well as "between the halfes and the half-nots" instead of "haves and have-nots". So don't yell at the video maker - yell at Amanda Palmer for the puns.
What's really integrally about these lyrics is that there's no real structure or motif to string it together, except the repeated 'half Jill and half Jack' line. That makes no particular message the key message and others added on - they're all equally viable.
On one level, it's definitely about transgenderism or whatever the appropriate term is. On another, it's just about the defining factors of our identity - our gender, our relationships - and how that can be restrictive or unfair. It can
COULD WE JUST STOP TALKING ABOUT THE INTRO AND OUTRO ,YES, THEYRE COOL ,NO,THEY SHOULDNT BE HERE BUT THIS IS AN AMAZING SONG THAT SHOULD GET WAY MORE ATTENTION
This song really grew on me. It came up on my Regina Spektor station on Pandora a few months back and I barely even noticed it at first, but after intensive research I managed to find it back and now I can't stop listening to it and I love it more and more each time.
It has that dark, fucked up poetry I've always been in love with.
Hey if you guys like this you should also check out Tangent Transmission! Ive been listening to them ever since I heard them on NCIS:LA and love it. Reminds me of Dresden Dolls a bit
"'Half Jack' is the same way, it's about my relationship with my father, but it's also about the crisis of not knowing what makes you what you are. What identifies you . . . gender? sex? family? and the unfairness of that."
this song is wondrous, but how is it not obviously about someone who is transgender or transsexual and that person dealing with that? "half corrective surgery gone wrong" "before they had these pills to take it back" Those lyrics pretty obviously imply a botched sex change and hormone pills taken after or during a sex change.
@footaters Yes, people probably just don't think about stuff like that often enough for it to be at the top of their minds. It's pretty obvious when you look at the lyrics with that in mind. "Notice something funny if you hang around", "learn to hear the different between the halfs and the half nots", that pill thing, running away from who you are but never being able to escape it, "when I'm brave enough and find a clever way to kick him out" probably referring to corrective surgery...
@Voretus I think that it's there in the song, even if that's not why Amanda wrote it. Probably intentionally considering how there are a bunch of Dresden Dolls songs that can be interpreted multiple ways.
i think however you want to interrupt the song is correct. dont knock others down for not knowing the true meaning. its music. its fluid. it can mean whatever it needs to mean to you.
I think what makes a well written song is the ability for people to connect to it and feel as if its about something they have delt with or gone through, or is going through. ! The word Ambiguity comes to mind !
Thanks for the video. But I found the song you put at the start and the end annoying. The end "RUN JACK RUN" was amazing, then it cut straight to a totally different song and it annoyed me.
@mayaelektranord :O the begining does NOT ruin the video (but the end does). The begining is Walking on Air by Kerli fucking Koiv! She's just as great as The Dresen Dolls!
"on 83d he never found the magic words to change this fact" ...awesome, powerful line - message: that you don't need to change who you are even if it deviates from the "norm". "Normal" isn't real. =)
Its ambiguous and that's why the other half is left to dipute, but this is not about her father, she loves him to much, it's actully about a hermaphrodite
@ieatsocks33 just a terminology thing: if you mean intersex or transgendered, use that in place of hermaphrodite. some people are offended by hermaphrodite. just a note :) also, i agree with your point.
i'm half my mother's daughter - and half a son....half male half female
in the halfway house of ill repute - Often times transgender people were placed in isolation and in special boarding homes where they would undergo procedures to change them into full male or female.
it's half biology and half corrective surgery gone wrong - Corrective surgery was done to transgenderred people to mutilate their genitals to "make them more acceptable"
@mscholz22 no, actually, you are talking about intersex people I think. Intersex are people who are born with both or some combination of chromosones that deviates...i.e. XXY
Transgender is when someone doesn't feel comfortable in the body/sex he or she was born with and decides to transition to the gender they feel they truly are
I think this song could be about either intersex or transgender, depending how you look at it. But "half boy/half girl" can either mean intersex or bigender.
I think this song, no matter what the real meaning is, means something different to everyone. Like any form of art, it's open to interpretation. For me personally, it's the song that helped me get out of a bad marriage. "I'm half way home now, half hoping for a showdown." That was my every day life. Either way, no matter what the meaning is..this. is. a. good. song. : )
@bladeknighh This song..is gorgeous..The Dresden Dolls are very talented .. but this song is actually about her struggle with her sexuality. half jill..half jack. she tries her hardest to get ignore the fact she likes girls.."i run as fast as i can run..but jack comes tumbling after" it majorly speaks to me..thats just when u need to say wanna know what i dont care im not gonna hide it anymore
@GanjaGorgeous thought it was stated it was mainly about her family life. She's spoken about the fact her father wasnt about or something along those. Half jack half Jill, 'half my mothers daughter a fractions left up to dispute" etc. "blood is thicker than water line" too sticks out. Though great lyrics work on many layers, and mean different things to different people. Regardless, your quite right the song is gorgeous, and however we interpret the lyrics it's still awesome. :)
@GanjaGorgeous thought it was stated it was mainly about her family life. She's spoken about the fact her father wasnt about or something along those. Half jack half Jill, 'half my mothers daughter a fractions left up to dispute" etc. "blood is thicker than water line" too sticks out. Though great lyrics work on many layers, and mean different things to different people. Regardless, your quite right the song is gorgeous, and however we interpret the lyrics it's still awesome. :)
It would've been nice if you'd mentioned in the title and/or description that there were jarringly different intro/outro songs..it's nice if they have meaning for you, but it's a very unpleasant surprise...
Not to be a meanie, it's just annoying, when all I was expecting and wanting to hear was the song.
I really like this song, I just found out about the dresden dolls today and they've really impressed me! And since I've seen some people giving their opinion on what the song means, it makes me think of a father sexually abusing his daughter and making her hate herself for being a part of him.
But that's just my opinion, and I think that's what's great about this song and this band, their songs allow each person to have a different idea of what it's about and relate to it on a different level.
This song is amazing but the songs at the beginning and end ruin everything! You say that they are there for a reason but I can't think of good reason to put them there when you know that it's going to ruin the whole mood of the song. I have no idea what you were thinking when you put those songs there.
I actually like the song at the beginning (Kerli - Walking on air), I discovered it from this vid and it's now one of my faves :). Though, yeah, maybe it should be in a seperate video, so as not to annoy people :)
This song is about her father, people. "Half my mother's daughter" ... "I see my mother in my face, but only when I travel" ... "it's half biology" ... "I'm half Jill— and half JACK," emphasis on the Jack ... I'm pretty sure she explained this in the FAQs on the Dolls' website, actually ...
@OhThatKristen Just because you don't like the music at the beginning and the end of the video does not make it crappy...how would you like it if someone said the Dresden Dolls were crappy?(which they aren't) You have to right to call music crappy, keep your comment to yourself if it isn't a nice thing to say.
Don't hate. You can interpret songs to mean whatever you like. It's what it means to you. Other people can suck it. (I said that because @lilaleahg because some people gave you thumbs down and I didn't understand why)
It could be about several things. Amanda's songs usually have double meanings. It could be schizophrenia, a hermaphrodite or a person confused with their gender, someone who is bisexual. I'm betting on schizo though.
see I was thinking sex change too! and then you always get that one person who gets pissed at people for questioning things...like the meaning behind this song. Um you know you don't have to read the comments. were all aloud to say what we wish, wheather that is if we like this song or what we think its about.
I always tought it was about being bisexual or about a guy/girl who feels more like a girl/guy .. "i'm half my mother's daughter" .. "i'm half jack and half jill". i'm not sure but i'm sure of something else .. I LOVE THIS SONG =] and the dresden dolls xx
one of the version is about her wanting too be a complete girl, the others about her father can we just fucking listen to the song, but I can see why people dispute this song, it's confusing.
Well she often invites her dad to play with her at shows. See, I was thinking it was about being a bisexual and maybe the tortures she goes through? Just a guess of course.
yeah, Im pretty sure it is... there is so many OBVIOUS points... like " I'd sacrifice my body, to geth the jack part out", "a fractions left up to dispute", etc, etc, you get it lol
I think it's more about having an identity crisis, and obviously some complex issues realting to her father. It's like trying to escape from negative aspects of yourself when ultimately these are intrinsic to who you are. I bet not even Amanda is sure about what this song's about. Freud would have a field day lol
It's about her dad. And then everything else in life that you could ever struggle with.
look2dwesternsky 2 weeks ago
I truly believe it's about an accidental pregnancy.
FreemansTavern 3 weeks ago
song starts at :36
MisterManipulater 2 months ago
@MisterManipulater No, the song starts at 0:09... The intro is a part of the song too, you know.
AnimeKramkalas1996 2 months ago
in my mind this makes me think of Bipolar disorder
b1a2y3k4a5y6 3 months ago
@b1a2y3k4a5y6 I see what you could mean, but it's more dual personality disorder if you look at it that :L x
RageModeGo 2 months ago in playlist DD
@RageModeGo Unless Jack and Jill are allegories for the two components to bipolar disorder, but since we're talking about art here it might be silly to get technical.
shyguyonstilts84 1 month ago
This is the song I've been trying to write all these years. It's so bittersweet hearing it done by someone else :/
ChristyEmanuelson 3 months ago 2
You know what ruins it? The absolute SLAUGHTER of the English language. "Halfes"? Fucking REALLY? HALVES. For the love of God, please refrain from mixing up "your" and "you're," and "they're," "their," and "there." It's an awesome song ruined by idiocy. How old are you, three? If you can't type you have no business on the internet.
magenta471 4 months ago
@magenta471 Have you actually SEEN the internet? Idiocy abound. Furthermore, if you're looking for grammatical absolution in a youtube video, you're sadly delusional and should probably get a hobby or take some Dickens. I agree that language abuse is infuriating, but you're screaming at the wrong person, and it's probably never going to get any better.
shyguyonstilts84 3 months ago 9
@magenta471 No, actually, the lyric is "halfes". The song is called Half Jack, and the actual lyrics include a play on the word "half" at every opportunity. I own the companion piano book for this album, and one of the official lyrics is "I half a lot to think about", as well as "between the halfes and the half-nots" instead of "haves and have-nots". So don't yell at the video maker - yell at Amanda Palmer for the puns.
DeusTrivea 2 months ago 7
this is not the original album-version, is it?
AlbertSiebener 4 months ago
*fun about interpretation
Pitbulinaskirt 4 months ago
Actually, from what I read this song represents Amandas relationship with her father..
But that's what's dun about interpretation.. There isn't a right answer.
Pitbulinaskirt 4 months ago
run jack run..
acidpixie420 4 months ago
It can also be about whatever you feel, as it's intentionally disjointed and ambiguous, allowing the form to reflect the themes.
Lyorias 4 months ago
What's really integrally about these lyrics is that there's no real structure or motif to string it together, except the repeated 'half Jill and half Jack' line. That makes no particular message the key message and others added on - they're all equally viable.
On one level, it's definitely about transgenderism or whatever the appropriate term is. On another, it's just about the defining factors of our identity - our gender, our relationships - and how that can be restrictive or unfair. It can
Lyorias 4 months ago 2
Goddamn you people who put other songs at the beginning of other song videos. wtf is your problem stfu and gtfo.
willard13213 4 months ago
Putting more than just the song that the videos been named after ruins it
nothuman100 4 months ago
they should be way more well known, especially for such a great song
Bnsmith93 4 months ago
COULD WE JUST STOP TALKING ABOUT THE INTRO AND OUTRO ,YES, THEYRE COOL ,NO,THEY SHOULDNT BE HERE BUT THIS IS AN AMAZING SONG THAT SHOULD GET WAY MORE ATTENTION
thanks (:
maytemcr1 5 months ago
poetry :)
sarahalzaid 5 months ago
This song really grew on me. It came up on my Regina Spektor station on Pandora a few months back and I barely even noticed it at first, but after intensive research I managed to find it back and now I can't stop listening to it and I love it more and more each time.
It has that dark, fucked up poetry I've always been in love with.
DuncanHennessy 5 months ago 2
WOOOHOOOHOOOOOOOOO increíblessssssss <3
FormosaProcella 5 months ago
Why did you speed it up? =/
MysticRose13 6 months ago
@MysticRose13 Actualy I like the slightly speeded up version.
Coricola 6 months ago
The Dresden Dolls are my favourite. <3
GirlAnachronism49 6 months ago
This is actually a really good song, its odd but relatable. Awesome, I like it.
Bnsmith93 7 months ago
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Hey if you guys like this you should also check out Tangent Transmission! Ive been listening to them ever since I heard them on NCIS:LA and love it. Reminds me of Dresden Dolls a bit
DaBrainfeeder 7 months ago
"'Half Jack' is the same way, it's about my relationship with my father, but it's also about the crisis of not knowing what makes you what you are. What identifies you . . . gender? sex? family? and the unfairness of that."
- Amanda Palmer
themrkinciad 7 months ago 42
this song is wondrous, but how is it not obviously about someone who is transgender or transsexual and that person dealing with that? "half corrective surgery gone wrong" "before they had these pills to take it back" Those lyrics pretty obviously imply a botched sex change and hormone pills taken after or during a sex change.
footaters 7 months ago
@footaters Yes, people probably just don't think about stuff like that often enough for it to be at the top of their minds. It's pretty obvious when you look at the lyrics with that in mind. "Notice something funny if you hang around", "learn to hear the different between the halfs and the half nots", that pill thing, running away from who you are but never being able to escape it, "when I'm brave enough and find a clever way to kick him out" probably referring to corrective surgery...
Voretus 7 months ago
@footaters I might just be biased toward that interpretation being transgendered myself, though. :P
Voretus 7 months ago
@Voretus I think that it's there in the song, even if that's not why Amanda wrote it. Probably intentionally considering how there are a bunch of Dresden Dolls songs that can be interpreted multiple ways.
Claramata 5 months ago
fail beginning and especially fail end. GREAT middle though. :)
TGIxKim 7 months ago 5
I love this song but wtf is with the stupid intro and Goo Goo Dolls of all ppl at the end..very disappointing
julescole10 7 months ago 2
There is NO NEED for an intro with another song in it. NO NEED.
QhaoticZombie 8 months ago 10
Why is there another song at the start? what the hell?
derekaitken 8 months ago 6
ive absolutly fallen in love with this song!
blair888888888888888 8 months ago
i think however you want to interrupt the song is correct. dont knock others down for not knowing the true meaning. its music. its fluid. it can mean whatever it needs to mean to you.
MissCullenxx 8 months ago
@MissCullenxx Interpret*
trueMMAgirl1215 7 months ago
I think what makes a well written song is the ability for people to connect to it and feel as if its about something they have delt with or gone through, or is going through. ! The word Ambiguity comes to mind !
300bcp 9 months ago
I hate it so much that this song has to be ruined by the "music" at the beginning and end. What purpose does it serve!?
PanoplyCabaret 9 months ago 4
awesome.
LAgravedigger 9 months ago
The beginning is a disappointment and also the ending songs.
Bigkiller488 9 months ago 4
...What the fuck is up with the fucking beginning and the end?! ಠ_ಠ
Son, I am dissapoint.
PirateBraig 9 months ago 30
I thought they were siblings....
LivesOnCemeteryDrive 9 months ago
Please cut the end out. T.T It destroys the whole feeling of this song.
MrBrennstoff 10 months ago 3
Reminds me of my girlfriend. She has split personalities. She actually made me listen to this song because it fits her so perfectly.
aronnian 10 months ago
This is different from the one I have on CD
SerasxAlucard 10 months ago
it sounds like she doesnt want to be her fathers daughter, ~ love the song
its great
DeapSilentComplete 10 months ago
Words can describe how much these song has touched me. As a son of a broken home I feel like she has taken my toughs and then turn them in to a song.
ijoden 10 months ago 4
kerli... please.
ytisforcommenting 10 months ago
wtf is with the fucking to song b4 n after stupid as fuck
bringmeXXXthehorizon 11 months ago 5
It's a love song. That said, may you never know soul-eating love for your father like this.
geogypsy 1 year ago
i was just thinking; they remind me of kerli! :D
TtheResa1995 1 year ago
thats not the original version right?im sure its not..is it live?:/
bafk3t 1 year ago
well done
halogirlx 1 year ago
This song is not about a hermaphrodite.!!
RainbowPoww 1 year ago 7
It's about transgenderism... "It's half biology and half corrective surgery" "Half accidental, half pain full"
GlompoFie 1 year ago
excellent post
jerryrigging 1 year ago
great post thanks
jerryrigging 1 year ago
Star fucking with Kevin Smith
ikilledcomedy 1 year ago
Thanks for the video. But I found the song you put at the start and the end annoying. The end "RUN JACK RUN" was amazing, then it cut straight to a totally different song and it annoyed me.
Readmybumpersticker 1 year ago 9
the beginning and the end ruins the video
mayaelektranord 1 year ago 401
@mayaelektranord :O the begining does NOT ruin the video (but the end does). The begining is Walking on Air by Kerli fucking Koiv! She's just as great as The Dresen Dolls!
BigMouthBakaNeko 1 year ago
@BigMouthBakaNeko So go watch a Kerli fucking Koiv video.
shyguyonstilts84 1 year ago 4
@mayaelektranord Yes, but it keeps WMG from fucking with it.
DSXmachine 1 year ago
@mayaelektranord
agree :(
crestfaIIen 1 year ago
@mayaelektranord I agree, Why use Kerli as a into? :/
shadowbarrowman 5 months ago
@mayaelektranord the fuck are you talking about that dosnt matter first of second off no they dont!!!!the whole fucking song is priceless!!!!!!!!!
Sususuzysu 5 months ago
@mayaelektranord no fucking doubt. and its like the only acutal lyrics video. ugghhh
Injulana44 4 months ago
"on 83d he never found the magic words to change this fact" ...awesome, powerful line - message: that you don't need to change who you are even if it deviates from the "norm". "Normal" isn't real. =)
CirqueFREAK333 1 year ago
7 people are.....half idiot.
FrightfulSmile 1 year ago 4
Its ambiguous and that's why the other half is left to dipute, but this is not about her father, she loves him to much, it's actully about a hermaphrodite
ieatsocks33 1 year ago
@ieatsocks33 just a terminology thing: if you mean intersex or transgendered, use that in place of hermaphrodite. some people are offended by hermaphrodite. just a note :) also, i agree with your point.
Xeditati 1 year ago 3
@mscholz22 Oh my god no! This is about her father!
LadyMerianafDanmark 1 year ago
"I Run As Fast As I Can But Jack Comes Tumbling After"
Puts a shiver down my spine.
claire123claire 1 year ago 6
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mindgoesblank0 1 year ago
I wish there wasn't a intro. The intro always makes it worse for me. Thank god I just bought the CD.
Koriyandr 1 year ago 3
@Koriyandr Me too, I hate the fact that there's an intro and outro, although I really like the song Walking On Air >_<
AnimeKramkalas1996 1 year ago 2
Seriously? This song is about transgender people, seriously, it is not that hard to read and hear in the lyrics......
mscholz22 1 year ago
@mscholz22 pff no its not
SummerLammer 1 year ago
@SummerLammer
i'm half my mother's daughter - and half a son....half male half female
in the halfway house of ill repute - Often times transgender people were placed in isolation and in special boarding homes where they would undergo procedures to change them into full male or female.
it's half biology and half corrective surgery gone wrong - Corrective surgery was done to transgenderred people to mutilate their genitals to "make them more acceptable"
half jill/ half jack = half boy/girl
mscholz22 1 year ago 3
@mscholz22 no, actually, you are talking about intersex people I think. Intersex are people who are born with both or some combination of chromosones that deviates...i.e. XXY
Transgender is when someone doesn't feel comfortable in the body/sex he or she was born with and decides to transition to the gender they feel they truly are
I think this song could be about either intersex or transgender, depending how you look at it. But "half boy/half girl" can either mean intersex or bigender.
CirqueFREAK333 1 year ago
I think this song, no matter what the real meaning is, means something different to everyone. Like any form of art, it's open to interpretation. For me personally, it's the song that helped me get out of a bad marriage. "I'm half way home now, half hoping for a showdown." That was my every day life. Either way, no matter what the meaning is..this. is. a. good. song. : )
amberakins1 1 year ago
What band is tht playing in the beginning? it sounds like trip hop.
zombiefaith 1 year ago
@zombiefaith shes Kerli walking on air, if you like these guys you might like her
SummerLammer 1 year ago
@zombiefaith i think it might be cocorosie
Krysti6877 1 year ago
Epic ending!!! Run, jack, Run!~
bladeknighh 1 year ago 43
@bladeknighh This song..is gorgeous..The Dresden Dolls are very talented .. but this song is actually about her struggle with her sexuality. half jill..half jack. she tries her hardest to get ignore the fact she likes girls.."i run as fast as i can run..but jack comes tumbling after" it majorly speaks to me..thats just when u need to say wanna know what i dont care im not gonna hide it anymore
GanjaGorgeous 5 months ago
@GanjaGorgeous thought it was stated it was mainly about her family life. She's spoken about the fact her father wasnt about or something along those. Half jack half Jill, 'half my mothers daughter a fractions left up to dispute" etc. "blood is thicker than water line" too sticks out. Though great lyrics work on many layers, and mean different things to different people. Regardless, your quite right the song is gorgeous, and however we interpret the lyrics it's still awesome. :)
MrBrandonwins 4 months ago
@GanjaGorgeous thought it was stated it was mainly about her family life. She's spoken about the fact her father wasnt about or something along those. Half jack half Jill, 'half my mothers daughter a fractions left up to dispute" etc. "blood is thicker than water line" too sticks out. Though great lyrics work on many layers, and mean different things to different people. Regardless, your quite right the song is gorgeous, and however we interpret the lyrics it's still awesome. :)
MrBrandonwins 4 months ago
It might destroy me
but I'd sacrifice my body
...
If it meant I'd get the jack .. part... out..
xmisogyny 1 year ago
Oh in the beginning I was like what the, this is Walking On Air D:
However, I love this! :3
AnimeKramkalas1996 1 year ago
Ah-uh UH UH.. Ah-uh UH UH.. :)
KristinKellyrose 1 year ago
Oh god, I love this song. Haven't heard it in awhile. Thanks for putting it up. Their songs always get me thinking.
Teru981 1 year ago
what was the first song?
inUfangirl23 1 year ago
whats the song in the beginning?
ChubbyChibi14 1 year ago
@ChubbyChibi14 it's Kerli - Walking on air
anika349 1 year ago
@ChubbyChibi14 "Walking on Air" by Kerli. :)
Metauru 1 year ago
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TheAtomic1234321 1 year ago
I've been listening to this song for 3 days in a row ... it's one of their best songs.... I just can't imgine those last 3 days without it :P
SkaChristine 1 year ago 3
great song
MariwSuper 1 year ago 2
Great video, thank you! :-)
Eyeseelyn 1 year ago
It would've been nice if you'd mentioned in the title and/or description that there were jarringly different intro/outro songs..it's nice if they have meaning for you, but it's a very unpleasant surprise...
Not to be a meanie, it's just annoying, when all I was expecting and wanting to hear was the song.
sudachinohi 1 year ago
I really like this song, I just found out about the dresden dolls today and they've really impressed me! And since I've seen some people giving their opinion on what the song means, it makes me think of a father sexually abusing his daughter and making her hate herself for being a part of him.
But that's just my opinion, and I think that's what's great about this song and this band, their songs allow each person to have a different idea of what it's about and relate to it on a different level.
ragdolljazz 1 year ago
Don't get me wrong I like Kerli but you ruined the song by putting her in the beginning
sarahification13 1 year ago
Well, the day I first really heard this song I had the best dream of my life and i'm sure there is a connection between the dream and this song.
athinapainter 1 year ago
wow those two other songs really fucking ruined it. asshole
IFUCKINLOVETEA 1 year ago 3
@IFUCKINLOVETEA OMG i ove your user name!
iLOVEthe80TWILIGHT13 1 year ago
such a beautliful and sad song....
66PixieOfDeath6 1 year ago
wats the first song tht plays sounds cool
queendeath1 1 year ago
@queendeath1 That first song is called Walking on Air and is by Kerli (:
tsuraiDoll 1 year ago
Dearly Beloved.. Like the KH track x]
XxReJoycexX 1 year ago
This song is amazing but the songs at the beginning and end ruin everything! You say that they are there for a reason but I can't think of good reason to put them there when you know that it's going to ruin the whole mood of the song. I have no idea what you were thinking when you put those songs there.
meowgi93 1 year ago 4
gosh seriously those other songs..
CreatureofMasquerade 1 year ago 4
creepy version to the nursery ryhmes, i love that :)
natmcsplat 1 year ago 3
I actually like the song at the beginning (Kerli - Walking on air), I discovered it from this vid and it's now one of my faves :). Though, yeah, maybe it should be in a seperate video, so as not to annoy people :)
cosmiccoolgirl 1 year ago
Sadly, I relate to this song completely. It's a little scary how perfect it is.
facelessaphrodisiac 1 year ago
For some reason, I just love her painted-on eyebrows. [:
They are so creative and beautifully artistic.
TheMayaShark 1 year ago 2
Ugh the music at the start and end is so fucking annoying
screamolives 1 year ago 5
I love those eyebrows. (:
StateOfErin 1 year ago 2
Sympathy by the Goo Goo Dolls, it says in the credits :)
SirFuzzyworth 1 year ago
Whats the name of the song at the start?
Mikail2630 1 year ago
I love this song!
TheMJTV 1 year ago
This song is about her father, people. "Half my mother's daughter" ... "I see my mother in my face, but only when I travel" ... "it's half biology" ... "I'm half Jill— and half JACK," emphasis on the Jack ... I'm pretty sure she explained this in the FAQs on the Dolls' website, actually ...
PunkCabaretFTW 1 year ago 61
No, she didn't.
bitchinstereo 1 year ago
I like it, kinda has a Siouxsie and the Banshees feel about it.
terribletimez 2 years ago 2
i get all your doll themed music but the styles do not fit at all.
ccoott 2 years ago
@ccoott -
Yeah - The Dresden DOLLS, The Goo Goo DOLLS, and Kerli's Walking on Air music video featured dolls. But none of it goes together, you're right.
Rellient 2 years ago
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Putting your crappy music at the beginning and end of the video ruined this beautiful song.
OhThatKristen 2 years ago 84
@OhThatKristen Just because you don't like the music at the beginning and the end of the video does not make it crappy...how would you like it if someone said the Dresden Dolls were crappy?(which they aren't) You have to right to call music crappy, keep your comment to yourself if it isn't a nice thing to say.
xXTheFallen1Xx 1 year ago
I think it's about an accidental birth. Like from a one night stand, or something.
lilaleahg 2 years ago
Don't hate. You can interpret songs to mean whatever you like. It's what it means to you. Other people can suck it. (I said that because @lilaleahg because some people gave you thumbs down and I didn't understand why)
LonesomePageTurner 2 years ago 5
I see it more as someone who suffers from depression or bipolar disorder.
Kittori 2 years ago 2
Agree)
AnotherBadDecision 1 year ago
It could be about several things. Amanda's songs usually have double meanings. It could be schizophrenia, a hermaphrodite or a person confused with their gender, someone who is bisexual. I'm betting on schizo though.
megadymeggE 2 years ago 7
Schizo and Dis associative personality disorder are different
BadBoyyy1 2 years ago 2
It's not about a transsexual. It's about her parents.
stineisrad 2 years ago
I think it's about a transexual
gatahari 2 years ago
id say it was more likely to be about a hermaphrodite
Kamiasachan 2 years ago
@gatahari no, it's about her family. In an interview, she says it was written in the same 6 months as "runs in the family"
survivingCHARKattack 2 years ago
I like how you used a Kerli song at the beginning. Lol. She and The Dresden Dolls are two of my favorite artists.
maggie09ily 2 years ago
I prefer this version, it was also the first one I heard.
SometimesAPoison 2 years ago
This isn't the album version, I don't think. It's my favourite song and it sounds really different.
TWIB627 2 years ago
Shame, they couldn't get a real switchblade for the photo.
StickWarrior 2 years ago
what is the song at the beginning of the video??
sinevesterdeus 2 years ago
Walking on Air By Kerli
IAmAnEmoNinja 2 years ago 2
thanks :]
sinevesterdeus 2 years ago
i love kerli!!! she's awsome!!!
CheezeTag92 2 years ago
lol i thaught it was 2 personalities in one body O.0 lol sex change?
SabakuNoIzy 2 years ago 8
does this seem quicker than usual?
ayame400 2 years ago
It definitely does to me. I can tell it isn't the album version.
jacksgirl620 2 years ago
I think it sounds slower, but y'know.
TWIB627 2 years ago
see I was thinking sex change too! and then you always get that one person who gets pissed at people for questioning things...like the meaning behind this song. Um you know you don't have to read the comments. were all aloud to say what we wish, wheather that is if we like this song or what we think its about.
Farewellloveable 2 years ago 4
According to the Dresden Dolls companion book, her father's called Jack.
Mausiness 2 years ago 2
is this song about abuse? it kinda seems like it
ImTheCrazyOneRAWR 2 years ago
I like the verse in this version but I prefer the chours in the other one, it's more powerfull.
MarkArandjus 2 years ago
I always tought it was about being bisexual or about a guy/girl who feels more like a girl/guy .. "i'm half my mother's daughter" .. "i'm half jack and half jill". i'm not sure but i'm sure of something else .. I LOVE THIS SONG =] and the dresden dolls xx
KillTheDamnedTV 2 years ago 3
i heard somewhere that her dad's name is Jack and that she doesn't like her dad or somthing so this song was about her not wanting half of his genes
MikoSubaru 2 years ago 5
yea i read that too =D so basically this song is about her father
KillTheDamnedTV 2 years ago
I thought that too but what about the lyrics "Its half biology and half corrective surgery gone wrong"
It steers me towards a sex change :/
Dixonoia 2 years ago
one of the version is about her wanting too be a complete girl, the others about her father can we just fucking listen to the song, but I can see why people dispute this song, it's confusing.
PurpleHillSeeker 2 years ago 2
Well she often invites her dad to play with her at shows. See, I was thinking it was about being a bisexual and maybe the tortures she goes through? Just a guess of course.
vkern7 2 years ago
i thought it was about hermaphrodites? :S
IFUCKINLOVETEA 2 years ago
Um...no. ^^'
Hollowroy 2 years ago
yeah, Im pretty sure it is... there is so many OBVIOUS points... like " I'd sacrifice my body, to geth the jack part out", "a fractions left up to dispute", etc, etc, you get it lol
Dragonflykiss 2 years ago
this is what makes me love miss amanda palmer
MissCullenxx 2 years ago 2
I've heard its about conflicts with her father. She'll always have half of his genes in her.
NonExistentPatrisha 2 years ago 7
This one gives me the shivers every time :)
I think it's more about having an identity crisis, and obviously some complex issues realting to her father. It's like trying to escape from negative aspects of yourself when ultimately these are intrinsic to who you are. I bet not even Amanda is sure about what this song's about. Freud would have a field day lol
lehury 2 years ago 46
hmm, interesting...
I should really listen to more music that has lyrics.
lehury, this scares me a bit. Deep!
jacklow01 2 years ago 2
Word.
lehury 2 years ago
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lehury 2 years ago
i think it's about a genetic disease,
possibly mental.
it would sorta goes with girl anachronism...
this version sounds different...
or am i crazy?
thepatronsaintoffail 2 years ago
yea, its different than the album version.
taytaytnk 2 years ago
it is different
you cant hear the back up parts for the oh oh parts
kinda makes it seem a little
empty
but this is still a good version :)
CHICROCK5 2 years ago