The first track off of Harvey Danger’s 1997 album, Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?.
The lyrics are a fairly literal description of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 film Vertigo, which is mentioned by name in the lyrics. However, instead of using character names, the lyrics refer to the actors' actual n...
[Verse 1]
Jimmy Stewart follows Kim to where your portrait hangs on a wall
You're such a haunting vision, he forgets his partner's fall
You jump into the San Francisco bay
I'll follow you in and I know you can't swim
When you've been dead a hundred years
Carlotta!
[Chorus]
Carlotta Valdez, Carlotta Valdez
Carlotta Valdez, I will make you her
[Verse 2]
Everything's subjective
Nothing lasts for Johnny O
K-Kiss Kim Novak where the redwoods grow
Now bleach her hair and pretend that she didn't die
Go up the mission stairs, I'll follow anywhere
That is, until you climb too high 'cause I get
Oh, vertigo, vertigo, vertigo!
[Chorus]
Carlotta Valdez, Carlotta Valdez
Carlotta Valdez, I will make you her
[Bridge]
What a thing to be the center of attention all the time
He isn't really falling for this, is he?
He's getting dizzy and so am I!
[Chorus]
Carlotta Valdez, Carlotta Valdez
Carlotta Valdez
Let her go, Jim!
[Chorus]
Carlotta Valdez, Carlotta Valdez
Carlotta Valdez, I will make you her
(Yes!)
Carlotta Valdez was written by Sean Nelson & Jeff J. Lin & Aaron Huffman & Evan Sult.
Carlotta Valdez was produced by Harvey Danger & John Goodmanson.
Harvey Danger released Carlotta Valdez on Tue Jul 29 1997.