Random Touché

Artiste : Manic Street Preachers

Title : The Girl Who Wanted to be God

There are no sunsets just silence
You could see that she was true and faithless
But see through the future and forget all the lies
Black out the words for the blind have eyes

I am the girl who wanted to be God
I am the girl who wanted to be God

There are times when you feel hopeless
Just for once for no-one else we are blameless
The dawn is still breaking its heaven is so high
She told the truth, told the truth and then she lied

I am the girl who wanted to be God
I am the girl who wanted to be God

Hold me she said love me to death

I am the girl who wanted to be God
I am the girl who wanted to be God

I am the girl who wanted to be God
I am the girl who wanted to be God

I pulled something random again, I love randomness, lol. The song was inspired from the title of chapter one in Anne Stevenson’s, ‘Bitter Fame: A life of Sylivia Plath’. Sylvia Plath is a poet (author of the Ariel poems) who explored holocaust imagery. She committed suicide on February 11th, 1963. Anyway, only now I just realised this song may intended as indirect sarcasm to this controversial poet. FYI my sister bought Manics album which included this song 11 years ago, yeah I know I’m such a slow-mo.