Amanda Palmer - Judy Blume Lyrics

Thank you Amanda Palmer, for making music that helps me get off the couch, take my antidepressants, and read a book.

so great!

So moving! I love how Amanda's honesty, warmth and poetry just oozes from her every pore. It's so soothing / comforting...

This sounds a heck of a lot like ‘Sing’ by the Dresden Dolls

I love the part where Neil is reading a Judy Blume book too.

Amanda, I love you !

Amanda has always been in great bands but I feel like she has really hit her stride in the past few years. Excellent song writing that will be around for a very long time. Thank you for sharing yourself with us!

I'm 48 years old so I grew up with Judy Blume. This is the most relatable song I've heard. I could listen to this 100 times a day, and I would probably cry everytime.
Amanda Palmer and Judy Blume are national treasures.
Thank you for your music. More than once I've put Amanda on shuffle, and it's kept me from self-harm. Much love to you.

Do you realize that YOU are Judy Blume to some of us Amanda

This is one of the tree things able to make me cry.

Holy shit! Amanda, creative team, funders and all participants: I am SO moved by this :-). Bravo!!!!!!!

Anyone see "In the unlikely event"??

There Will Be No Intermission may possibly be the best album of 2019. Amanda is supremely talented, real, and such a musical great.

"I can't believe sometimes that I'm an adult. And the girls like I was think that I have this shit figured out." I just cried again listening, I guess hating and longing for those days. Thank you Amanda...and Judy.

Hi Vivian bestie

Oh my ---

Great song, for amazing author. Sometimes i disagree with Amanda, but I love it that she says what she feels she should, even when it’s awkward , painful or nasty. It’s what makes her or anyone, a real artist.

Amanda became Judy for me, but not before, more for the cleanup. She's helped me heal with her honesty. This just made me cry out of nowhere. Thanks you Amanda. Xx

I mean this is basically my PhD thesis in a song.

My favorite AFP song

This song makes me cry and I never even read Judy bloom

Well, now I know what to click on every time I really need to clear my brain chemistry by bawling my eyes out. (The song was already decent for that, but Jason Webley knocked it out of the park with this video. His work is always deeply affecting and this is a powerful combination.)

Growing up I never had the honor of reading Judy's works. I feel like I missed out on something that would of helped me feel more at peace then.

Aaaaaaand I'm crying.

this is a SOUL song!
you are a brilliant writer Amanda, thank you for you music.

life saver!!!!!!

who seems so raw n real?

SOOOO glad that this has found its way onto an album. I always subscribed to the Tori Amos school of songs, where in they have personalities (listen to the live side of venus)

I like to think that the Living Room crept up and smacked you on the ass then. And I think Judy's got the same vibe. So glad it made its way onto an album. It needs to be heard.

She is my Judy Blume, truly

Yass I am here for this!! Judy Blum addict 1989 -1997. Tiger Eyes....😮 that was some real shit!!!👌👌🤘

This gives me goosebumps.

I just read your disdain for Facebook in the details. I fully agree. HOORAY! Good luck! I'd help, but I'm as broke as they come.

This is fucking art. Thanks.

Judy Blume was one of my favourite authors as a kid and I am a guy. This song takes me back. Great video.

Thank you

Just.Amazing.

SuperFudge, as in very shitty

oh, this is fucking terrible. why the hell did someone recommend this to me???

Amanda is my fucking hero

I use to LOVE LOVE LOVE Judy Blume!!!!!...'Are you there God, it's me, Margaret' .....An author recommended, for any pre-teen girl....lol

That is a beautiful song. I had to go look up the characters, it's been so long but I read the Superfudge series. Great books, tho I kinda felt that way about Calvin and Hobbes.

Its impossible to ignore Amanda Palmer and her spirits. What a source of empowerment she is !

I remember Freckle Juice, but I had no idea how much more she had to offer. I love how this song could have been on a Dresden Dolls album and yet it doesn't feel formulaic because it feels so sincere.

Love it!..so much of it. I have to know what microphone was used to record the vocals..does anyone know?

Wow .. what have I missed ... I came across a video about a cell phone going off .. Amanda Palmer .. and I looked her up and i was hooked watching her videos and listening to her music so now Amanda where did you go ? 10 months .. is the last vid .. really " I will keep looking later .

There is something so special about Amanda Palmer works.. I could not hear her for years and then a song pops up and my stomach will tighten and I cry. Thank you, for helping me feel.

Who's chopping onions?

the only good song ever

My eyes are sweating , am I gonna have to bring a box of tissues at the concert in March?

"I don't remember the details of seventh grade
All I remember is lying and being afraid"

The details are likely not comparable, but that line touches me deeply. For reasons I'll not go into, I don't remember many details, either. And what I do recall of my time in seventh grade is fearful. My home life was, in a word, torturous and the rest wasn't much better. I didn't have any real friends.

But I had my books. And I had music.

I've never read a Judy Blume book, but somehow this song really makes me emotional. I've also just ordered "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret".

So many comments below about Amanda's passionate music and being moved to tears by the music, words and ideas.
Well, me too.
ps what ever happened to those "lightning" eyebrows. Are they out of fashion now? Have you moved on from that "phase"? They were stunning. Please, just for us fans of your early days, go retro, just occasionally, please.
Love for you

Thank You , Amanda Palmer,I'm a littleless alone today, my tears are happy this day, you help take the sad ones away, at least a bit , in a way, Thank you, Thank you , Thank You!

why is essentially everything you make amazing

good song

Does Judy know of this song? What was her reaction to it? I have to know!

Agreed- beautiful, many prayers and continued blessings, view me as your prayer guardian, keep moving forward and keep sharing. 0:)

Goddamn it, Amanda. I tear up every time. :)

This is one of my favourite songs that you've ever written. I find myself revisiting it frequently because it's not often that you listen to a song on YouTube that makes you want to turn off the laptop after you hear it and go hug a book. That's something rare. That's something powerful. In a documentary on Kate Bush, Neil once talked about the power of combining the influence of literature and literary ideas with pop music, and I think he was onto something. One of my favourite songs by Joy Division was inspired by Nicholai Gogol, one of my favourite Led Zeppelin songs was inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien, and one of my favourite songs by Siouxsie Sioux, from her side project The Creatures, was inspired by J.G. Ballard. I often find inspiration for my own lyrics and essays come from books, from films, from photography, and from other songwriters. Today I found myself writing about Amanda Palmer, about feminism, about mythology and fairy tales, about Frida Kahlo, and about photographers Kahn & Selesnick. I don't know who first dropped the pebble in, but the ripples continue ever outward...

AMAZING VOICE AMANDA:........ you are best year to year -!!!

You know, when I remember The Kingdom before My fall, the singing I remember sounds like you.

This made me weep. Judy is the reason I fell in love with books and writing. I felt every word that was sung! She is the voice of my youth, and I reread her books over and over because they’re that special. Thank you for this beautiful tribute!! I know so many of us feel this way, and Judy’s stories live in so many of us. ❤️

I remember her books never got into blume though always the beat writers but blume was like grammar school

I was having a bad night a few days ago and listened to this for the first time, I cried my eyes out. I read Judy Blume as a kid, Amanda you always manage to create the most personal songs.

When I saw Neil I may have screamed a little.

I was introduced to Judy Blume when I was about seven or eight, and I think all her books have a feeling of timelessness. Teens always have and always will observe bullying, worry about their body shape, lie to fit in, take the wrong risks, have problems with their friends, and experience life. I really identified with Deenie. She hates that she's being treated like she's seriously ill and to be pitied. My problems aren't visible like hers, but it's the same - I don't want people to feel sorry for me.

Amanda looks so strange with eyebrows! <3

I think Amanda was my Judy Blume

When are you finally coming to Brazil, my dearest? I gotta see u live aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I'm so excited to come and see you toniiight!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

hehe yay! Facebook blows Got rid of mine ages ago :)

"And the girls like I was think that I have this shit figured out" Reading is a bitch - you develop ideas and 'knowledge' of life and people, but it's all based on books and fake people. Nothing (almost) was worse than middle school, when I realized people were nothing like my book friends. ~still a beautiful song in it's own, fucked up, magical way, like all of your other "Holy shit, this is great, but WOW! it's depressing" songs :)

Amanda how have the years been? How could we grow up? Pac man and clove just a moment you still shock me surprise me stay you.

Well, that made me ugly-cry. In a good way though!

Back again. New state of mind, and a new perspective. Thanks, Amanda. This song keep me warm like Summer's embrace.

"All of them lived in my head, quietly whispering:
'You are not so strange'."

What a beautiful testament to the power of books. Especially to a young, growing, malleable mind.

Oh. "Smart Women" by Judy Blume. (And that should have been "Friendsssss;" 'cause U have Many.)

You have patient friend and family, Ms. Palmer. (What was the title on that book Neil Gaiman was "deep into?")

Wuv it Amanda. Been "worming my Way" through dead tree books for Ages and Ages. (Very steadfast friends, they are.)

Judy Blume got me through my childhood and teens

I'm a dude who grew up in the 80s and 90s... Christopher Pike is my Blume.

💎✌

This song very rarely fails to make me cry. <3

"all of them quietly whispering: you are not so strange" = ugly cry. Thank you for this. I was not a Judy Blume reader (they weren't for me) but the books I clung to as an odd child and a bullied and abused teenager still saved me.

Does anyone know if Judy Blume has heard this? What a beautiful tribute

Beautiful, Amanda
Thank you

I didn't realize but I remember all those things too. I will start buying Judy for my daughter.

Quiet, gentle, genius...

4:16 *Check me out*

You just spill it all out there, don’t you?

Love it.

No one’s poetry hits me quite as hard as yours.

There's always magic in the way you weave lyrics, Amanda. Keep making music!

Just lovely.. such a perfect thing to find in the morning and cry for a while, remember my youth <3

i've never even read a single judy blume book before but this video is still bringing tears to my eyes?? y'all have some kind of magical command over other people's emotions, i swear. also...maybe i should read some judy blume.

Omg...TEARS. These books kept me alive as a kid, before music became what I most connected to. Both saved me from my past, but now in a dark, trapped, perhaps not too lengthy present. If anyone can think of a good JB book that could help a despairing adult, isolated and feeling alien to this world, it would be much appreciated <3
Thank you for being you, Amanda.

I read Tiger Eyes when I was 15. It did help me feel like I wasn't alone in the world (even if I was being abused and doing everything I could to escape it), and for that I'm forever grateful to Judy Blume. This song made me cry, AGAIN. Then again, you have that way about you Amanda, and I thank the Gods everyday that you continue making music that makes me cry, sing at the top of lungs, dance, and revel in the moment.

8.36am. Kids late for school and here i am having a much needed cry to this. Thank you Amanda xx

I love the picture like poses as the camera gradually goes through everyone in the room. It really brings a lot of character to the video. Excellent song