Like, if I’m 17 and I don’t even know when I’m hungry, am I tired, have I had any sleep-if you don’t even know that, then how can you talk about lyrics that come from such an unconscious place? I always said ‘I don’t know’, and I didn’t.”. I guess it’s back to how much personal power you feel that you have. “A lot of the stuff I was singing about was all metaphorical. I could be singing things they could be sort of really against, like I could be raving on about hell or something!” They make enough sense to other people for them to actually… they can understand, they can see things, they have these mental pictures.” Fortunately they come out making a sort of sense. I don’t know whether I have to or not, but I do.
Sod that! I have to distance myself from it. “I’m proud of them, I’m very proud of them, but I’ve always said I didn’t want them to be a let-down to people, I didn’t want people to think, ‘Oh hell, I liked my version better’ (laughs), and even if people did like the words they’d get sick of them eventually, probably, and it just seems such a sad situation. The words that are on the sleeve, there’s bound to be people who hate them, so it makes you really frightened, that might have something to do with it.” “I’m not ashamed… I mean, even in the studio there’s been words, like actually singing… ‘Peppermint Pig,’ singing about ‘runts’ and things (laughs), there’s definitely some words that are very embarrassing to sing. I might make it sound as if I think it’s unimportant, but the words are important, important to me I mean, but… I think you’re just supposed to get out of them what you can. Liz has had many interesting things to say in response to questions about her lyrics, some of them very revealing and worth considering: The 1996 LP Milk & Kisses featured snippets of lyrics printed on the inner sleeves of both the standard and special editions. Lyrics were included wholesale in the videos for “Rilkean Heart” and “Half-Gifts” in 1995 (from Twinlights) and for “Tishbite” in 1996. Over time, Elizabeth’s vocal style and arrangements became more complex and almost entirely obscure before returning to relative clarity in the 1990s. In the beginning, some of the lyrics were included on the sleeves of Garlands and Head Over Heels. (Japanese record labels notoriously insisted on including lyric sheets with every album, and so would have staff write up what they thought they were hearing, which almost always led to some rather bizarre outcomes.) Comic strip from New Musical Express (NME), July 1991 For years journalists, fans, and even record labels tried desperately to decipher what Elizabeth Fraser might have been singing. A perennial debate about Cocteau Twins relates to the “lyrics,” or lack thereof.
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