Amanda Palmer - Slide Lyrics

This song makes me want to murder pedophiles. Mark of a good tune, I'd say.

Gotta be honest, this blows. I can appreciate the sound, which I quite like, but the tune itself just isn't good. Glad I gave it a try at least.

A truly beautiful and terrifying song! It triggers so many horrific memories but, it's hauntingly gorgeous in a way that only the exquisite madam Palmer could ever accomplish! Bravo

The song doesn't mean the same thing to me anymore

many different things at many different times for many different people.

A late April day and it's sunny outside
And a red little girl's at the top of a slide
And an orange old man at the bottom
Wants to take her for a ride

As she slips and she tumbles the orange man mumbles
Pennies crash down from the sky
And he tells her, he'll take her away where it's safe
And of course it is a lie

She's a third the down and her skirts are yanked up
And her little girl cheeks start to wrinkle
But her smile is wide and her legs are spread wider
Her hair growing long and her hips getting larger
Past getting brighter
Light growing weaker

She is halfway down now but the man is impatient
Shakes change in his pocket he might have to wait
But she's coming
She's coming
She's coming

Who are you blaming?
They're just playing
That's a good one, who left the playground
A good decade before the bell rang?

As she starts to draw nearer the view becomes clearer
The splinters are painful but she doesn't feel it
The pennies were loaded and as they exploded
She starts to spin out of control

Her eyes are now closing her sleeves are unrolling
Up past her head and her veins are all showing
Not that she noticed, she's thoroughly focused on
One old man who's laughing
Who's laughing
Who's laughing

Don't worry, I've got you
Don't worry, I've got you
Don't worry, I've got you
Don't worry, I've got you
The orange man got you

A late April day and it's sunny outside
And a red little girl's at the top of the slide
And an orange old man at the bottom
Wants to take her for a ride

I love this song. I have an extremely close relationship with this song. It's beautiful, haunting and filled with the angst I needed when I first heard it. It's a reminder of how much I've grown.

Hauntingly vivid...

Beautiful, yet chilling. I love it! ❤