Post by Julie on Apr 22, 2005 17:23:19 GMT -5
Jackie's Strength
a Bouvier till her wedding day shots rang out the police
came.mama layed me on the front lawn and prayed for Jackie's strength . feeling
old by 21 . never thought my day would come . my bridesmaids getting laid I pray
for Jackie's strength . make me laugh . say you know what you want . you said we
were the real thing . so I show you some more and I learn . what black magic can
do . make me laugh . say you know you can turn . me into the real thing . so I show
you some more . and I learn . stickers licked on lunch boxes worshipping David
Cassidy . yeah I mooned him once on Donna's box . she's still in recovery . sleep-
overs Beene's got some pot . you're only popular with anorexia so I turn myself
inside out . in hope someone will see . make me laugh . say you know what you want
you said we were the real thing . so I show you some more and I learn . what black
magic can do . make me laugh . say you know you can turn . me into the real thing
so I show you some more . and I learn . I got lost on my wedding day typical the
police came . but virgins always get backstage no matter what they've got to say .
if you love enough you'll lie a lot . guess they did in camelot . mama's waiting on
my front lawn . I pray I pray I pray . for Jackie's strength
I think this song has fear and wonder. The fear is that perhaps I'll never get married, or maybe I will and it'll fuck up somehow - the wedding day, the marriage. Like she said, 50% of all marriages end in divorce. So yes, we have the wonder and hope for your other half to be committed to you, and then we have finding this person but then having them slip away from you through death or just falling out of love. It's a complicated and emotional song.
Here's Tori's description of it:
Inspired by Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. "I saw Jackie as a bride - and I used to think I would never be a bride. I started to look to Jackie and how that woman held the country together after she watched her husband get cut down right in front of her."
"This wonderful boy had asked me to marry him, and of course I said yes, but I was shocked. You know, there was a part of me that had sworn that would never happen. You fantasize about what it would be like on that day, and then you fantasize about never having that day. Then you're a vigilante and you will never have it. Then, all of a sudden, there it is, and you're wondering, 'are we going to make it? half of all marriages end in divorce. is that us?' That was all going on as I got lost on my wedding day."
“Jackie’s Strength is really... I was asked to get married, right? And um I was quite nervous because I never thought I’d get married before. It just wasn’t something that I was gonna do. Even though I believe in monogamy, just having the church and state condone my union wasn’t important to me. And in fact, I really didn’t want that. So, when he asked me, it brought up, obviously, a lot of things. And I started going back in my little movie in my head, different moments of my life. And I remember my mother telling me that the day Kennedy died, John F. Kennedy, that she put me down, she had to lay me down because her heart started to slow down and she couldn’t breathe. And um, all she thought of was Jackie and the strength that it would take Jackie to lead the nation.. which she did. And I really knew that I was gonna need some kind of strength because I’m made up of like two personalities. There’s one side of me that could very easily have ended up at the 7-Eleven sitting outside drinking a Slurpee in my wedding dress and just missing the whole thing. And then there’s the other one that did make it to the church. So, this song is about the one that drank the Slurpee. She’s still out there somewhere.” [VH1 Storytellers - October 24, 1998]
“We I knew I was getting married, and all those feelings were coming up, sort of flashbacks of your life. So when I saw this tiny book on Jackie’s life at a book store in an airport I just picked it up, and when I saw the picture of her as a bride... and then turned the page and saw the picture of her when JFK got shot, it really spoke to me about how fast your life can change, at the turn of a page. I really didn’t know how I was going to react on my wedding day when I wrote this song. A part of me could see myself getting lost, going to a 7-Eleven and having a Slurpee all day... This song is about a girl getting lost on her wedding day. I happened to show up at the church for mine in real life. But a 7-Eleven did cross my mind.” [Yahoo Online Chat - August 5, 1998]
“She [Jackie O’Nassis Kennedy] had a kind of grace and inner strength that few people have. More than anything, it was her sense of grace, which I didn’t think I would have as I was coming nearer to my wedding day. A part of me really wanted to do it; another part of me could see myself in flashback to my whole life having said I would never do it, because I would never go in front of church and state and do such a thing. In the end, it didn’t become about that; it became about, ‘this is somebody that I love’... A part of me could see myself in this wedding dress sitting at 7-Eleven on the curb, having a Slurpee and missing the whole thing. Not because I wanted to, but just because I’m still frozen in a piece of film somewhere when I was 18 and that was my outlook on life. So ‘Jackie’s Strength’ was written about the girl that went to the 7-Eleven; I went and got married... It’s a pretty sacred day, and yet it can go so horribly wrong. Mine went right, but I think because I wrote the song. I let my alter ego go exist and live and be [in the song], so she didn’t have to do it in front of everybody else. That’s where songs come in handy: You don’t pretend that this side doesn’t exist, so it doesn’t have to become so vulgar, in 3-D.” [New Orleans Times - October 9, 1998]
a Bouvier till her wedding day shots rang out the police
came.mama layed me on the front lawn and prayed for Jackie's strength . feeling
old by 21 . never thought my day would come . my bridesmaids getting laid I pray
for Jackie's strength . make me laugh . say you know what you want . you said we
were the real thing . so I show you some more and I learn . what black magic can
do . make me laugh . say you know you can turn . me into the real thing . so I show
you some more . and I learn . stickers licked on lunch boxes worshipping David
Cassidy . yeah I mooned him once on Donna's box . she's still in recovery . sleep-
overs Beene's got some pot . you're only popular with anorexia so I turn myself
inside out . in hope someone will see . make me laugh . say you know what you want
you said we were the real thing . so I show you some more and I learn . what black
magic can do . make me laugh . say you know you can turn . me into the real thing
so I show you some more . and I learn . I got lost on my wedding day typical the
police came . but virgins always get backstage no matter what they've got to say .
if you love enough you'll lie a lot . guess they did in camelot . mama's waiting on
my front lawn . I pray I pray I pray . for Jackie's strength
I think this song has fear and wonder. The fear is that perhaps I'll never get married, or maybe I will and it'll fuck up somehow - the wedding day, the marriage. Like she said, 50% of all marriages end in divorce. So yes, we have the wonder and hope for your other half to be committed to you, and then we have finding this person but then having them slip away from you through death or just falling out of love. It's a complicated and emotional song.
Here's Tori's description of it:
Inspired by Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. "I saw Jackie as a bride - and I used to think I would never be a bride. I started to look to Jackie and how that woman held the country together after she watched her husband get cut down right in front of her."
"This wonderful boy had asked me to marry him, and of course I said yes, but I was shocked. You know, there was a part of me that had sworn that would never happen. You fantasize about what it would be like on that day, and then you fantasize about never having that day. Then you're a vigilante and you will never have it. Then, all of a sudden, there it is, and you're wondering, 'are we going to make it? half of all marriages end in divorce. is that us?' That was all going on as I got lost on my wedding day."
“Jackie’s Strength is really... I was asked to get married, right? And um I was quite nervous because I never thought I’d get married before. It just wasn’t something that I was gonna do. Even though I believe in monogamy, just having the church and state condone my union wasn’t important to me. And in fact, I really didn’t want that. So, when he asked me, it brought up, obviously, a lot of things. And I started going back in my little movie in my head, different moments of my life. And I remember my mother telling me that the day Kennedy died, John F. Kennedy, that she put me down, she had to lay me down because her heart started to slow down and she couldn’t breathe. And um, all she thought of was Jackie and the strength that it would take Jackie to lead the nation.. which she did. And I really knew that I was gonna need some kind of strength because I’m made up of like two personalities. There’s one side of me that could very easily have ended up at the 7-Eleven sitting outside drinking a Slurpee in my wedding dress and just missing the whole thing. And then there’s the other one that did make it to the church. So, this song is about the one that drank the Slurpee. She’s still out there somewhere.” [VH1 Storytellers - October 24, 1998]
“We I knew I was getting married, and all those feelings were coming up, sort of flashbacks of your life. So when I saw this tiny book on Jackie’s life at a book store in an airport I just picked it up, and when I saw the picture of her as a bride... and then turned the page and saw the picture of her when JFK got shot, it really spoke to me about how fast your life can change, at the turn of a page. I really didn’t know how I was going to react on my wedding day when I wrote this song. A part of me could see myself getting lost, going to a 7-Eleven and having a Slurpee all day... This song is about a girl getting lost on her wedding day. I happened to show up at the church for mine in real life. But a 7-Eleven did cross my mind.” [Yahoo Online Chat - August 5, 1998]
“She [Jackie O’Nassis Kennedy] had a kind of grace and inner strength that few people have. More than anything, it was her sense of grace, which I didn’t think I would have as I was coming nearer to my wedding day. A part of me really wanted to do it; another part of me could see myself in flashback to my whole life having said I would never do it, because I would never go in front of church and state and do such a thing. In the end, it didn’t become about that; it became about, ‘this is somebody that I love’... A part of me could see myself in this wedding dress sitting at 7-Eleven on the curb, having a Slurpee and missing the whole thing. Not because I wanted to, but just because I’m still frozen in a piece of film somewhere when I was 18 and that was my outlook on life. So ‘Jackie’s Strength’ was written about the girl that went to the 7-Eleven; I went and got married... It’s a pretty sacred day, and yet it can go so horribly wrong. Mine went right, but I think because I wrote the song. I let my alter ego go exist and live and be [in the song], so she didn’t have to do it in front of everybody else. That’s where songs come in handy: You don’t pretend that this side doesn’t exist, so it doesn’t have to become so vulgar, in 3-D.” [New Orleans Times - October 9, 1998]
