Marcy Playground
Marcy Playground
Marcy Playground
Marcy Playground
Marcy Playground
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Marcy Playground
Marcy Playground
Marcy Playground
Marcy Playground
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Marcy Playground
This song is about how “weird” or “strange” people are neglected by others . In this case, even the narrators mother. “The Cloak of Elvenkind” is a item from a video game used to make your character invisible, symbolizing that they don’t get attention from others and are neglected by society.
A cloaking robe of Elvenkind
Hangs in my wardrobe behind
All those things that Mother said
Were proper for a boy
And I know I, I, I
Could not say why, why, why
On this summer evening
Sixteen books on magic spells
Stacked below the cloak of elves
And sixteen books on magic spells
So elegantly bound
And I know I, I, I
Could not say why, why, why
On this summer evening
And I know something
Something about you
And I know something
Something about you
A cloaking robe of Elvenkind
Hangs in my wardrobe behind
All those things that Mother said
Were proper for a boy
A Cloak of Elvenkind was written by John Wozniak.
A Cloak of Elvenkind was produced by Jared Kotler.
Marcy Playground released A Cloak of Elvenkind on Tue Feb 25 1997.
It’s the first song I wrote when I was a freshman in college. So that was ‘91, '92, something like that. I was going to school at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, which is an alternative college. Actually, Marcy Open School, where I got the name of the band, was an alternative grade s...