Post by Julie on May 15, 2005 12:58:37 GMT -5
Carbon
carbon-made found her at the
End of a chain
"time to race" she said
"race the downhill"
Behind crystalline
irises
loons can dive
where the world
bleeds
white
just keep
your eyes
on her
keep
don't
look
away
keep
your eyes on
her
horizon
Bear Claw
Free Fall
a Gunner's View
black
and
blue
shred
in ribbons
of
lithium
blow by
blow
Her
Mind
cut
in
Sheets
Layers
Deep
now
unravel
ing
Just
Keep
Your
Eyes
On
Her
Keep
Don't
Look
Away
Keep
Your
Eyes
On
Her
Horizon
Get me Neil ont he line
No I can't hold
have him read
'Snow
Glass
Apples'
where
ntohing is
what it
seems
"Little Sis
you must
crack this"
he says to me
"you must
go in again
carbon-made
only
wants to
be
unmade"
Blade to
ice it's
Double Diamond
time
and keep
your eyes
on her
keep
don't
look away
keep
your eyes on
her eyes
on
her
horizon
on her
eyes
on her
horizon
I think "Carbon" is about a very suicidal woman who Scarlet admires dearly. She just can't comprehend why someone with so much brilliance would hurt themselves or hate themselves when all she feels is love and admiration for this beautiful being that is self-mutiliating. Scarlet feels this pull to watch her at all times to make sure she never conquers her desire to kill herself because she doesn't know how she could live without her in her life.
Here's Tori's description if it:
Next she meets up with the manic depressive CARBON. They travel through the Black Hills of Dakota and to Wounded Knee, scene of one of the darkest episodes in Native American history. "All Carbon wants is to disintegrate into nothingness. So its an extremely destructive story. Just as people risked their lives to keep their sacred land, a meltdown is about to happen in her life and a waltz into insanity is on the horizon. She's on this downhill race in her mind and Scarlet has to get to her before she kills herself." They end up in a ski resort - Bear Claw, Free Fall and Gunner's View in the song are all ski runs. But for Carbon the normal parameters and boundaries have ceased to apply and given way to self-mutilation and an urge to plunge over the cliff. Scarlet walks into this madness, but the outcome is left unresolved.
-- Scarlet's Walk bio
"Sometimes you don't have to necessarily spend a lot of time with somebody to have exchanged a lot of yourself and taken away parts of them that become a part of your body map. That sort of become written, tattooed on you in some way. And it can't be seen visibly, but it's felt internally. Carbon is this woman that Scarlet has gone to see. She's carbon-made, she only wants to be unmade. There is a brilliance, though, to Carbon, as there's a brilliance to a diamond. But people chip away and chip away and chip away at this person...because of their brilliance. They wanted her, so they excavated her. So there's not a lot left in some ways, but a whole nother world has been created in other ways for her to survive it. So Scarlet is having to deal with both these people, who live in the one being of Carbon."
-- Scarlet Stories CD
"Each person has their own myth, their own mystery. Most of my characters, I guess all of them, are based on real people. They're not made up. ... But really, just the average person has such a story to tell. And I find I never know it. Do you know what I mean? It's the people that I don't expect. ... [You're] pulling yourself into a place where you can see from that character's point of view. That's always tricky. Like in Carbon, trying to get into that space, being around somebody who is a manic-depressive, unless you're that way, it's very tough to see it like that. I found that one very tricky. To study and try to imagine being like that, doing that kind of research ... when you don't feel it within yourself. You try and make yourself almost like a canvas so that their experience can just tattoo or imprint on you." [The Journal News - March 6, 2003]
carbon-made found her at the
End of a chain
"time to race" she said
"race the downhill"
Behind crystalline
irises
loons can dive
where the world
bleeds
white
just keep
your eyes
on her
keep
don't
look
away
keep
your eyes on
her
horizon
Bear Claw
Free Fall
a Gunner's View
black
and
blue
shred
in ribbons
of
lithium
blow by
blow
Her
Mind
cut
in
Sheets
Layers
Deep
now
unravel
ing
Just
Keep
Your
Eyes
On
Her
Keep
Don't
Look
Away
Keep
Your
Eyes
On
Her
Horizon
Get me Neil ont he line
No I can't hold
have him read
'Snow
Glass
Apples'
where
ntohing is
what it
seems
"Little Sis
you must
crack this"
he says to me
"you must
go in again
carbon-made
only
wants to
be
unmade"
Blade to
ice it's
Double Diamond
time
and keep
your eyes
on her
keep
don't
look away
keep
your eyes on
her eyes
on
her
horizon
on her
eyes
on her
horizon
I think "Carbon" is about a very suicidal woman who Scarlet admires dearly. She just can't comprehend why someone with so much brilliance would hurt themselves or hate themselves when all she feels is love and admiration for this beautiful being that is self-mutiliating. Scarlet feels this pull to watch her at all times to make sure she never conquers her desire to kill herself because she doesn't know how she could live without her in her life.
Here's Tori's description if it:
Next she meets up with the manic depressive CARBON. They travel through the Black Hills of Dakota and to Wounded Knee, scene of one of the darkest episodes in Native American history. "All Carbon wants is to disintegrate into nothingness. So its an extremely destructive story. Just as people risked their lives to keep their sacred land, a meltdown is about to happen in her life and a waltz into insanity is on the horizon. She's on this downhill race in her mind and Scarlet has to get to her before she kills herself." They end up in a ski resort - Bear Claw, Free Fall and Gunner's View in the song are all ski runs. But for Carbon the normal parameters and boundaries have ceased to apply and given way to self-mutilation and an urge to plunge over the cliff. Scarlet walks into this madness, but the outcome is left unresolved.
-- Scarlet's Walk bio
"Sometimes you don't have to necessarily spend a lot of time with somebody to have exchanged a lot of yourself and taken away parts of them that become a part of your body map. That sort of become written, tattooed on you in some way. And it can't be seen visibly, but it's felt internally. Carbon is this woman that Scarlet has gone to see. She's carbon-made, she only wants to be unmade. There is a brilliance, though, to Carbon, as there's a brilliance to a diamond. But people chip away and chip away and chip away at this person...because of their brilliance. They wanted her, so they excavated her. So there's not a lot left in some ways, but a whole nother world has been created in other ways for her to survive it. So Scarlet is having to deal with both these people, who live in the one being of Carbon."
-- Scarlet Stories CD
"Each person has their own myth, their own mystery. Most of my characters, I guess all of them, are based on real people. They're not made up. ... But really, just the average person has such a story to tell. And I find I never know it. Do you know what I mean? It's the people that I don't expect. ... [You're] pulling yourself into a place where you can see from that character's point of view. That's always tricky. Like in Carbon, trying to get into that space, being around somebody who is a manic-depressive, unless you're that way, it's very tough to see it like that. I found that one very tricky. To study and try to imagine being like that, doing that kind of research ... when you don't feel it within yourself. You try and make yourself almost like a canvas so that their experience can just tattoo or imprint on you." [The Journal News - March 6, 2003]
