Amanda Palmer - Ampersand Lyrics

This song sounds like it's a response to a fan who loved her and professed his love to her.

Does anybody else feel some type of nostalgia listening to this song?

I really wish the people who crush so hard on Emilie Autumn could hear this. All the female power sentiment. None of the psychotic blood lust.

Watch The killing Type if you want psychotic bloodlust.

Does anybody know what the last scene means? She seems to be recreating some painting or a scene perhaps? ... but I can't find it anywhere O..o

Every song is her best song.

anyone know if "your eyes full of ketchup" is related to the German idom "Tomaten auf dem Augen haben" =to have tomatoes in your eyes=to be oblivious because I'm learning German and when I learned that idom it made me think of this song

before anyone comments I know "crocodile tears of blood" and that's how I've been interpreting it I'm just wondering if she knows how close it is to the German idom as well

Cool insight

This song is so beautiful but it fuckin hurtsssssss

Strength!

She looks like human Shrek

This song is my college years. Eternal pride.

"the most successful relationships have people who can work just as well as individuals as together"

"I wonder if this method of courtship
Has ever been effective
Has any girl in history said
Sure, you seem so nice, let's get it on
Still, I always shock them when I answer
Hi, my name's Amanda"

That seems like a really effect response.

Who is the dip sh** that doesn't know how to export a video with the correct aspect ratio?

bruh this was made in like 2009 give them a break

have your people ever talked with Muse people?

no se que dice pero me pone Sad así que ira directo a mi play list : ' )

Yeah, you might be the one that's crazy tho, lol.

Μουαρεσηπολιτοβηντεοσου

My god she fucking sucks at singing.

Them eyebrows

I like this sound a lot more than I like any other sound.

I really like Bravestation. Carol Barrett Toronto really knows good music by putting this song in her music playlist.

This song is very emotional. This genre is very unique as well. Carol Barrett Toronto brought me here through her playlist. Its very helpful.

this song is more relevant to me now than ever.. damn

I want to write something like this

This is amazing

Congrats to Neil & Amanda :)

tf did I just watch?!?!

A music video

This video sure is confusing until the last 5 seconds

Awesome aromantic song!

why does this remind me so much of Ben Folds?

airborneandrowdy He produced this album (helped her trim and tweak) so it's probably that.

The end reminds me of Thomas Chatterton's suicide portrait.

what does eyes full of ketchup mean?

ѕнιкα ѕнιкα Not sure but I think it means like


Fake crying and pretending to be sad.

thank you

No problem

Amanda tweeted saying "crocodile tears of blood"

SmolGalacorn I think it's a liver failure reference

oml the comment section is just a mess

No Homo Lol

Why has she to be so perfect? This is too much for my poor gay heart...

An Del fuck me

An Del wait that sounded wrong, I meant that I relate,,,,, don't fuck me,,,,,

@Sup Buckos - xD

Recently a painting of the Madonna done in cow dung sold for something like 43 million dollars...that is the state of “art” these days. It’s commercial, aimed to be consumed like sugar and candy to masses of people starving for something to fill their otherwise empty time...we’re all little fat kids gorging on nonsense...eating the empty calories spewed out by today’s “artists...eat it up everyone!

eyes full of ketchup bits

Bullshit!

as if everyone are interested to see you naked

Don't look then ...

Person who said they're never going to be an ampersand, an ampersand is this thing >&.
She's saying she's not ever going to be an associate, one side of this person&this person.

+Talitha Byrne Sorry, rather that she's not staying that way her whole life. Dresden dolls ring any bells?

To me it sounds like she's singing about relationships and how she is not going to be in one of those where people seem to lose their individuality

I like how fukjez thinks.

This is how I always took this song.

well, that was totally different. was looking for ampersand by adrian belew... yay for variety!

pretty cool, yeah?

pretty awesome.

'And though I am no use to them, I do my part by simply smiling' - fuuuuuuck.

Although to be fair, she does (perhaps) look a bit like the one who might be crazy.

+Talitha Byrne That's why. He looks remarkably like someone I used to ummm "date". Excepting of course that he wears glasses, and this person does not.

+Talitha Byrne Sorry, I'm still spun by the uncanny likeness. Doppleganger or what? You sir, have a very attractive top of the head. And domineering eyes. >Laughs< Sir, you have Domineering eyes that's funny. (personal joke)

+Talitha Byrne http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/new_glasses1.jpg

I used to look like this when I was about 25:

http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/nancyboy1.jpg

now look more like this:

http://weirdsky.com/miscImages/sex2.jpg

+Nick Taylor Aaaah, well, then you looked a lot like my....'former partner' I guess is the best way to describe him.

especially if she torched that fucker's apartment lol.

Although to be fair, she quite often looks a bit like the one who might be crazy

this song is so powerful for me. when i first heard it i didnt understand it, i was only a kid. but now ive grown up alot and been through stuff and i can relate to it (or at least my interpretation) so much..

Pure Love.

its been way too long since i listened to this song <3

I'd forgotten how Brilliant this song is! Love Amanda Palmer!

epic sideboob, amanda

This makes me happy but i also want to cry

Appropriate.

dont cry whatever you do dont cry you hear me

her eyebrows...

They are beautiful, original, not like all the girls, you have to learn to accept the "new" things

What eyebrows?

grand piano and orchestration=superb

she's neither a singer, nor a business person... She is a performer, deal with it.

^someone missed the point

I took it to represent her disdain for his boring smarmy infatuation with her. what's more boring than ketchup? It's also red. Probably my favourite line in this song.

Ahhh might have posted this on my sons account! forgive the name! lol

God I just love Amanda! Will be seeing her next Saturday! and my life will turn full circle xx Amanda you are young and not had half the life I've had but by god you get It! x

One of my favourite songs in high school. That piano melody just makes my chest tighter immediately.

I was listening to another one of her songs while watching this on mute. I kept thinking "It's interesting that she's singing something else in this video. I wonder why she did that." I feel like such a fool now.

dont listen to it then :)

I love everything about this song, I like to sit here wondering who the hell I was when I first heard it. I'm pleased that Amanda Palmer exists. So that I can.

art =/= business. It never should, blame the Jews

It would have bee cool if she got people for pne song maybe bt to do real work, pracrice she should, and did pay

Zentangle

Heart touching...

no, that isn't quite true, actually. the whole thing was kicked off by a blog post written by a person who is a musician, who considered amanda's invitation, and who thought it was unfair. i mean, i thought it was an interesting idea, and i love amanda. but some musicians didn't like it, though i would say many more were supporters than detractors.

How sorry is it that no musicans are complaining, it is only people with nothing better to do. NONE of the volunteers ever complained. Some people just need to get a life and stop trolling.

Nah. 14 people just discovered armpit hair while eating vegemite.

one of her finest moments.

First of all, she spent that money investing in her product and making art. I call it art, and whether you like it or not is irrelevant. Not everyone likes every artist or genre. That doesn't mean it isn't art. Also, she retracted her call for volunteers, even though she didn't have to, and the WERE volunteers, not slaves, and is now paying all guest musicians. You can stop hating and let the rest of us just enjoy the music.

Of the 100,000 or so views on this video, I'm pretty sure at least 10 percent are mine.

who said anything about autotune? she blew 1 million dollars on a horrible business model and doesn't pay musicians. A silly narcissist with no fucking talent. Fuck her.

Fuck you for assuming everything ya troll if you're still on your account I'll make sure you read this-

what has business got to do with this?

I think they were just quoting...

Amanda Fucking Palmer folks! The one! The only! An artist who once used the word "Ampersand" multiple times in one set of lyrics, always used correctly, and told whoever didn't like it to fuck off. Well, that last part is unconfirmed, but it's quite obviously a reaction she would make!

I assumed it was about his constructed drama. Ketchup in place of blood. He's trying really hard.

jesus chrimany. shut up and listen to this beautiful song. arguments dont matter when beautiful shit like this is playing.

Oh my gods, youre all hilarious. Random. Bad singer. Bad business person. Wow, do you even know who this woman is?

Because she doesn't use auto tune and raised over 1 million dollars to finance the record /tour without the help of a studio?

Shame on her.

whoa, horrible singer and business person

Sloover looooool

The lyric is: "I have wasted years of my life agonizing about the fires I started when I thought that to be strong you must be flame retardant, and now to dress the wounds calls into question how authentic they are" - It's more of a claim not to be that way because it's caused more bad than good, i.e. the years of agonizing after the fact, and she still ended up getting "burned," but is still unsure if they're real or if she's still immune to the pain. It's not the way to be, trust me.

i can't stop commenting on her music videos. i can't. amanda is the most true person in this entire fucked up world! she knows how it all works.. can't really express myself

I love this new comment system!

I think this song is about not wanting to be the other half to someone elese's whole, about being your own fucking person - I'm not gonna live my life on one side of on ampersand.
Amanda is such an insightful woman.

@Seagreenandblue was agreeing with you until you mentioned katy perry. i don't think you're inferior, but i give the same reaction if someone says they are a nickelback fan: a coy smile and a pat on the head.

*sigh. This song makes me wish I lived in the city. :I I have no steets or street lights!

i dated a girl that looked just like her...

Amazing

Yeah, I had tits once....










Get over it,

@Seagreenandblue

I want to vomit now.........san diego vomit..everywhere...gpod dam,n you *chokes*

Nice try but comparing Amanda Palmer with David Bowie? True, Bowie adopted many theatrical stage personnas but what remained constant in his music & what made him great was how he folded himself 'inside-out' & often emerged as pure emotive energy & expression. My original critique of Ms. Palmer's work stands...simply stating that if is she is less aware of herself, she may in turn become & more importantly, her music may become more aware of the world around her & her place in it.

Artistic 'self-consciousness' precludes a deeper, more poetic, intuitive discovery of oneself. You mentioned "music video" ...Amanda seems to be clearly more interested in her "act" rather than her sound. Her sound would come from within and clearly have nothing to do with her painted eyebrows or her burlesque shtick.

@blimao86 - She is those drawn on eyebrows and what you perceive as self-consciousness. Why should she deny that when it is a part of her? Why should she make a *MUSIC VIDEO* with no visual fodder? So you like her more? I think the hang up if yours and has nothing to do with her or her performances.

It sounds better when you scroll down and don't watch the video. I always thought she had a compelling voice but was still somehow steeped in gothic iconography and the faux, burlesque treatment of "Dresden Dolls." If she abandoned the drawn eyebrows and the obvious self-consciousness, then maybe she would allow that soaring voice of hers to really get off the ground and take her with it?

@irishturkishcoffee in your opinion.
:)

@AnotherSecondOne Better symmetry.