Autumn, Emilie - Scavenger Lyrics






[Scavenger:]
I am a Scavenger
And I'll take what I need
This isn't personal
We've all got mouths to feed
Supply and demand...
Supply and demand...

I am a Scavenger
A Resurrectionist
Yes, I enjoy my work
I'm a perfectionist
Supply and demand...
Supply and demand...

One man's trash is another's treasure
One man's cash buys another's pleasure
I'll rob from the cradle
And I'll rob from the grave
It's just human traffic
And I'm just a slave
To the medical community
They gave me my start
They pay by the part
So I'll throw in the heart

I am a Scavenger
A vulture, if you will
And if the price is right
I'm not averse to kill
Supply and demand...
Supply and demand...

I am a scavenger
And as you decompose
My time is running out
And my excitement grows
Suply and demand...
Suply and demand...

But surely you understand
It isn't your diamonds that I'm after
But I'll take 'em
Don't mind if I do
They'll mean nothing to you
It isn't your kisses that I'm here for
But I'll take 'em
Why should we waste them?
Why shouldn't I taste them?

There's always one door that you forget to lock
And I will be waiting...
There's always one street that you know you shouldn't walk
And I will be waiting...
Your loved ones may sit upon your stone to prevent me
But I will be waiting...
I will be waiting...
Anticipating...

I am a Scavenger...
I am a Scavenger...
I am a Scavenger...
I am a Scavenger...
I am a Scavenger...
I am a Scavenger...

[simultaneously]
[Girl:]
I should be home by now...
Someone will come for me...
I should be home by now...

[Scavenger:]
Supply and demand...

[Girl:]
Someone will come for me...

[Scavenger:]
Supply and demand...

[Girl:]
Someone will come for me...

[Scavenger:]
Supply and demand...
Supply and demand...
Supply and demand...





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  1. R.... V....

    The way she says “I’m a perfectionist” just gives me chills

  2. T.... D....

    This gives me big 'Thankless Job' vibes, from Repo!The Genetic Opera--- I guess I shouldn't be surprised lol

  3. B.... B....

    I think all the interpretations here on this comment section are great and pretty dark, but I think Emilie could get even more twisted than that...

    What is the Scavenger is also a necrophiliac?

  4. V.... M....

    This is the story of the seven gangs in Victorian England working for anatomists to supply bodies because of the lack of cadavers. This job was called being a Resurrectionists.

    They stole bodies indiscriminately, "from the cradle.... from the grave"

    These gangs, if payed enough would murder the occasional person when bodies were not available,
    "i'm not adverse to kill."

    Stealing jewelry from the dead or even necrophilia was considered a 'job perk,'
    "It isn't your diamonds that I'm after But I'll take 'em..........It isn't your kisses that I'm here for But I'll take 'em"

    Once these activities became well known people when to great lengths to keep their dead safe from reinforced caskets to having huge crypts with guards. But these Resurrectionists still found bodies,
    " There's always one door that you forget to lock And I will be waiting”

  5. R.... ....

    Probably the darkest lyrics I know of in a song... Or maybe just the most disturbing...

  6. B.... V....

    This is about when organ donation wasn’t a thing, so if a person needed a transplant, they needed to go to the black market and find an organ there. To get those organs, the sellers would become grave robbers or just kill people and harvest. Other organ users were doing illegal experiments on humans, animals, and themselves. Also, some people would eat the organs.

  7. D.... ....

    This reminds me of Fallen London.

    D.... ....

    Every time I play that game I think EA's music would fit great with the creepy gothic london lovecraftian theme.

  8. J.... A....

    anyone else think this would be perfect in fallout?

    J.... A....

    i could be good at fallout but the music would be PERFECT in manhunt

  9. P.... R....

    I know now that this song is about the Asylum for Wayward Girls book, but for years I honestly thought it was a metaphor for sexual abuse.
    Mainly because of lines like "rob from the cradle" (cradle-robber) "one door you forget to lock" (the door to your room) "It isn't your kisses that I'm here for...but I'll take 'em" (this one is pretty obvious) "it's just human traffic" (again, pretty obvious) "my time is running out...and my excitement grows" (the 'wait' before the abuser can be alone with their victim again) "your loved ones may sit upon your stone to prevent me" (loved ones 'helping' but not protecting the victim as much as they should) and the lines in the background at the end, "I should be home by now/someone will come for me," (sounds like the victim reassuring themselves that someone will find them and save them.)

  10. E.... ....

    It's all about sexual-market-value ideas with an intricate gothic metaphor style. A scavenger is perhaps someone looking for treasure on clearance ha ha, the world needs girls like her!

    Really intriguing!

  11. D.... K....

    I could totally see Graverobber singing this in Repo!

    D.... K....

    I was just thinking the exact same thing!!!

  12. A.... K....

    It's like addiction...

  13. A.... T....

    From what I know of EA, I think that "rob from the cradle" has more to do with pedophilia.

  14. a.... ....

    A talent hits a target everyone can hit, a genius hits a target no one else can see.

  15. D.... ....

    Someone will come for me...

  16. S.... 0....

    I relistened to the whole Fight Like A Girl after watching AHS Season 2. :)

    S.... 0....

    Wait is it in AHS? I didn't know that! I haven't watched it in so long lol

  17. A.... ....

    Reminds me of Repo! The Genetic Opera...

    A.... ....

    Ironically, I discovered Emilie through The Devil's Carnival.

    A.... ....

    +Morbius Fitzgerald Me too thanks to Repo

  18. L.... H....

    I'm disappointed she doesn't make reference to Burke and Hare in this song!

  19. d.... ....

    This was, in fact an issue right up until the 1940's in the states, if you can believe it. In the UK as well. I wouldn't put other western cultures out of the game, either. {Say, Nazi Germany... But with them, it wasn't illegal.} But the idea of mad scientists did actually have roots with individuals {mostly women} that disappeared because of the black market for illegal cadavers.

  20. S.... ....

    This song really gave me the creeps.

    S.... ....

    Yeah she'll do that.

  21. K.... T....

    This is cool.... I've heard Grave Robber at Large by Creature Feature, which is upbeat, fun and kind of silly, but this is dark and delicious... I love it. :)

  22. O.... M....

    I really need to get that book.

  23. B.... A....

    Am I the only one reminded of the killers Burke and Hare? They started out grave robbing, and then moved onto "fresher corpses"

    B.... A....

    Oh yeah now you mention it really does sound like them.

  24. B.... T....

    Emily Autumn Fritzges (Born 09/22/77)

    She is the 2nd oldest of 5 children (all of which are still alive). Her mother is world renowned costumer Janice Longmire (still alive as well), who dropped “Fritzges” after a separation from Wolfgang Fritzges, her estranged husband and father of all 5 children, and returned to her birth name “Longmire”. Wolfgang passed away after a brief yet fatal battle with lung cancer in the fall of 2004. EA, who had simply gone by “Autumn” her entire life before taking on her current persona, was the only member of the family who had refused all communication with her father throughout his illness, and did not attend his service. “Liddell” was the married name of EA’s maternal grandmother, who had little to no contact with the family throughout the children’s upbringing. Being that Liddell was actually the step father of Janice Longmire, there is no biological connection between Liddell and EA whatsoever. As for the connection to Alice Liddell, there’s absolutely zero proof, and this was never something that was  claimed, promoted, or encouraged within the family. EA’s decision to change her name is strictly cosmetic, and for promotional purposes, as is much of what she claims to be her past. She grew up in the loving environment of a lower-middle class Southern California family. Aside from the separation of her parents, which was handled peacefully and without putting any tension on the children, she experienced a positive upbringing with absolutely zero underlying mental conditions or elements of alienation. EA chose to be home schooled which allowed her to devote nearly all her time to practicing violin and music composition. This was a desire and commitment that was met with no opposition by any members of her family. After repeated attempts to secure recording contracts in Los Angeles throughout her late teens, all ending in failure, EA left her family for a 2 week trip to Chicago in hopes of establishing a deal. This would be the last time her family saw her. Like a child running away from home, EA soon cut off all communication to her family, only reconnecting when in need of money or favor. Her mother, who had already designed and produced all of EA’s original theatrical outfits (pre-fairy wings) was asked to make several more pieces and send them back East. Upon completion of the costumes, all ties were cut and EA began experimenting with vocals, face-painting, falsifying her past, and branding herself as an emotionally and mentally damaged orphan with fictitious accounts of abuse. The singular truth is that EA is a fictional character, with fictional interests, fictional illnesses, and a fictional past. The hordes of fans and followers who’ve spent a great amount of their time idolizing her and researching her past have ultimately done so in vein, to her own amusement, at their expense. It’s an intentionally and maticulously manufactured facade, created to engage a niche market of subculture, after she was unable to secure success in her previous attempts at the world’s larger audience. As weak-minded people observe her stage and social performance as genuine, there exists an underlying insincerity that only manifests from something so forced. Her fans identify with her as an act of fantasy, now turning her self-manufactured success into legitimate success. This is the type of person who updates their own Wikipedia… 

    B.... T....

    I wonder how you'd know all that

    B.... T....

    Well, here's the thing, her music does qualify, to a point, as Dark Cabaret. A form of music that is almost completely theatrical. So creating a persona isn't out of the question for that particular genre and whats to say she can't go all the way with it? Even if you found that excuse as invalid, her music is still her music.

    B.... T....

    If this is the case, which is hard to judge with no references, I don't think it seriously affects the quality of her art which is the thing I most appreciate about her. She is a distinctly talented musical artist and has an ability to inspire strong emotions that I find lacking in a lot of music.
    Whether the character is fictional or not, she has helped a LOT of people struggling with their own mental illnesses. Also, I think she's pretty open about the fact that a lot of what she does is fantasy.

    These lyrics from Swallow seem to suggest that she is admitting to not being what she pretends to be and not doing it with fully noble goals:
    "I'll tell the truth: all of my songs
    Are pretty much the fucking same
    I'm not a faerie but I need
    More than this life so I became
    This creature representing more to you
    Than just another girl...
    ...I don't want to be a legend
    Oh well that's a god damned lie - I do
    To say I do this for the people
    I admit is hardly true..."

    B.... T....

    Bob The Banana that may be the case, but that doesn't change the fact that she tried to take her own life. Just because you have a mental disorder does not mean that there was something wrong with your up bringing. There are many factors in it. You only know the information out there, not the stuff that hasn't been told.

  25. S.... L....

    I love the subtle trembling of the text in the video here.

  26. u.... y....

    Repo! The Genetic Opera. Oficial Trailer. I'm pretty shur this is it. It's only the trailer. It's called : Repo! The Genetic Opera

  27. u.... y....

    Minds me of a movie I watched, it was about body parts being sold for plastic surgery these body parts could then be repossessed.... meaning keep your money straight or die. this song is exactly what the movie is about. I can't remember what it was called, I think it's was gothic opera or something like that.

    u.... y....

    It's called Repo! The Genetic Opera.

  28. Z.... ....

    This song gives me chills. I love it.

    Z.... ....

    Every time. She has an unmatched ability to inspire very precise emotional reactions through her music.

  29. l.... ....

    My kingdom for a Repo! sequel with Emilie as a graverobber who sings this song...

    l.... ....

    They want to do a sequel but Lionsgate owns it so they cant make one unless Lionsgate says so I guess but anyways I want a second one it would be amazing. They are making a sequel to The Devil's Carnival though. EA is in it :)

    l.... ....

    @CiaraCoffin  They lost the rights to the  whole "Repo" storyline, because a crappy Hollywood movie kind of stole their idea and called it "Repo Man." Bastards, they had been doing the stage musical since 1996 and the movie came out  two years before that crap.Search repo man 2010 and you will probly find a video about it.

    l.... ....

    @IsadiahInDisguise Yes. I read in a interview that's why she's been keeping her hair blonde, because they are supposed to start filming soon :)

    l.... ....

    +likeappletrees I would just love to see Emilie play a second Graverobber and then get in a "singing duel" with Terrance Zdunich.

  30. L.... F....

    @Megan Tvenstrup the whole album takes its themes from Emilie's book The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls. I do not KNOW what these lyrics mean but how i see this song is that the Scavenger goes and indeed robs graves for body parts for experiments but also takes children from their cradles to be used later on.. If that makes any sense. And again this is just me thinking.

    L.... F....

    I'll rob from the cradle
    And I'll rob from the grave
    It's just human traffic
    And I'm just a slave
    To the medical community
    They gave me my start
    They pay by the part
    So I'll throw in the heart

    Yes, it's about huma traffic and  it's a metaphor for our lives in many ways . We are disposables... TBT ! 

    L.... F....

    The song is really about her past sexual abuse. The "scavenger" being her rapist who takes what he needs, he tells her that her no one will be able to help her because they won't know.

    L.... F....

    @Ebby Jones actually, i read the book and i think it's actually just literally about selling body parts to medical people. that happens in the book a lot

    L.... F....

    @Sydney Sennett also, as for the "from the cradle" part, shes referring to the forced abortions within the asylum and how they'd sell the fetuses afterward

    L.... F....

    +La Folia It's about grave robbers of the 1800's due to the science boom of the 1800's, cadavers were needed for autopsies, they paid for bodies. Since it's illegal to kill, grave robbers were booming and had territories where fights broke out with groups like the bloods vs crypts or gangs of NY style.


    However this resurrectionist seems to have little thought in taking someone living and seems to work solo.


    Check out H.H holms

  31. M.... T....

    So what, exactly, do the lyrics mean? She 'resurects' dead bodies to harvest their organs, and she steals parts from 'the cradle' for the hospital?

    M.... T....

    Megan Tvenstrup it goes with her book 'asylum for wayward Victorian girls' so if you read that it'll make sense ahha

  32. T.... H....

    Barely any dislikes! :D

    T.... H....

    YES!!! :D 

  33. M.... H....

    Plague Rats ftw

  34. A.... ....

    Emilie can make songs very haunted alike :P Thats so cool about her songs haha, and her screaming in it

  35. E.... ....

    Great job with the lyrics on this cut La Folia

  36. S.... W....

    And that little glass vial goes into the gun like a battery.

  37. S.... W....

    It should have been one of his songs!

  38. G.... ....

    listened to this song as I was doing my chores this morning... before dawn.

  39. A.... A....

    Listen to it again. it's about the Repo Man himself "I will be waiting..."

  40. H.... ....

    She could totally play a genderbent version of the Graverobber.

  41. A.... ....

    In a little glass vial, silly :P

  42. n.... g....

    this chick is like nothing ive ever encountered. AND I LOVE IT!!

  43. K.... R....

    I can only imagine the glorious skin crawling effects that play would supply to the masses.

  44. N.... .....

    Her music makes me wanna write a play.

  45. G.... ....

    A little glass vial ;3

  46. L.... ....

    what does it come in?

  47. S.... M....

    Zydrate, anyone? ;D

  48. R.... V....

    I feel like I am going to die.

  49. g.... a....

    body parts for scientific experimentation

  50. g.... a....

    who knows maybe in the second devils carnival they do?

  51. b.... ....

    they pay by the part
    so i'll throw in the heart

  52. S.... ....

    1 dislike? "There's always one street that you know you shouldn't walk...and I will be waiting..." ^..^

  53. 1.... ....

    Repo!! wahoo!!!

  54. N.... ....

    This is the best lyrics video I've seen; thank you so much for sharing Emilie's song with us all in such a wonderful way!

  55. A.... ....

    This kinda feels as if she is the person in the asylum that steals little things for the other patients in the asylum. Like a guy in prison that sells the cigarettes for nudey magazines.

  56. A.... ....

    ...The genetic opera is good!! (It's A-good!)

  57. M.... M....

    I honestly can't stop thinking of Graverobber singing this.... Awesome :D

  58. L.... S....

    I applaud you.

    Bravi! Bravi! Bravissime!~

  59. A.... C....

    DUDE I thought the same thing!

  60. m.... ....

    Supply and demand... S+E IS HAUNTING ME!!!!

  61. M.... H....

    When you'll do "I Don't Understand" and "The Key" lyrics? I'm excited for this!

  62. D.... ....

    I think they'd have dropped this from the final cut if Graverobber sang it (which would make so, so many people cry quite a lot). Like cutting either zydrate anatomy or try my new parts, as using both didn't push the plot enough because they were supposedly too similar. I don't think they werer at all and I wish they'd used both. The dancing in new parts isn't great, but it is certainly shexeh!

  63. D.... ....

    Not by all of us, she isn't! ;D xx

  64. P.... ....

    this woman is so underrated .____. i love her

  65. A.... ....

    And the "I should be home by now..." Bits would be sung by Shiloh.
    Yes.
    Very much yes.

  66. M.... O....

    and the fire nation music at the end

  67. M.... O....

    anyone else here TARDIS noises in the song?

  68. I.... ....

    An amazing job, I tip my hat to you mate!

  69. N.... A....

    Well. My panties have successfully exited the building.

  70. A.... ....

    Imagine this song sung by Zdunich, our beloved Graverobber...

  71. L.... F....

    I time the lyrics in Adobe Premier Pro and then add the lyrics, background and the sort in Adobe After Effects. I'm using the CS 5.5 version.

  72. M.... A....

    can you tell me what program you used to do it? *_* ty

  73. A.... N....

    Reminds me of Croup and Vandemar from Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere :)

  74. s.... ....

    This is a beautiful and well-made lyric video. Well done ^.^

  75. M.... T....

    Listening to this home alone at night seemed like a really good idea at the time...

  76. M.... F....

    This song is perfection!

  77. B.... ....

    This one always makes me excited to see the musical. Stockhill would be an awesome part to play for this solo.

  78. L.... F....

    The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls. You can find it on Asylum Emporium.

  79. l.... ....

    hey could you tell me the name of the book please? thanks.

  80. L.... F....

    True, true. Had forgot about that lol

  81. S.... ....

    So,this is like,if Emilie played the GraveRobber...female graverobber...I like it

  82. L.... F....

    Ah, found the excerpt. It's called The Tavern and is one of the three readings she put somewhere before the book was released. No idea where though anymore.

  83. L.... F....

    Personal view, but I took it as a supply and demand of the girls in the book. If you haven't read it nor want to know stop here.

    So in very beginning of the book (I think Emilie read this bit at sometime too) this man comes into a bar where Emily is with his dad, playing violin. After Emily finishes this stranger talks with her dad and next morning Emily is taken to the Music Conservatorie from which she is later sold onwards and then ends up in the Asylum FWVG.

  84. S.... Y....

    I am a little confused about the meaning of the song. What is this supply and demand EA sings about? BTW great video, love the way you have done lyrics.

  85. M.... ....

    That is EXACTLY what I was just thinking.

  86. L.... H....

    Hahahaha Ikr!? and then he screams GRAVES when ur like WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?! XD LoLz

  87. M.... G....

    this is probably the creepiest song i have EVER heard in my life

  88. A.... I....

    Hey, just wanted to say that I love your way of making lyric-videos.

  89. T.... ....

    You mentioned Repo! I love you.

  90. A.... ....

    It's wonderful! Realy great job. I love your lyrics video of EA songs!
    Can I suggest "One foot in front of the other"? :)

  91. L.... F....

    Nope. Patience ;)

  92. c.... b....

    have you done if i burn yet

  93. N.... A....

    This reminds me a bit of Repo! The Genetic Opera. How Graverobber would steal from the grave and sell cheap versions of Zydrate for those who were addicted.

  94. L.... F....

    It's on the to-do-list already :) So yes, I will do it once I have time

  95. D.... V....

    I know you're getting a lot of requests but could you do one for take the pill?

  96. Y.... ....

    Okay, please take as much time as needed, I just love your lyrics videos they are just amazing!

  97. L.... F....

    Will do lol Gotta make a list soon

  98. T.... ....

    Okay this is for if/when you have time.
    Could you /try/ Take the Pill? :D