The Dresden Dolls
The Dresden Dolls
The Dresden Dolls
The Dresden Dolls
The Dresden Dolls
The Dresden Dolls
The Dresden Dolls
The Dresden Dolls
The Dresden Dolls
The Dresden Dolls
The Dresden Dolls
A song about how an organist manipulates, harasses, drugs, and rapes the person who turns his sheet music for him while he plays the organ, and how the page-turner views the situation and how they stay with this organist throughout his career.
In an interview with Amanda Palmer (songwriter/singer)...
[Verse 1]
He told me that I knew just what to laugh at
And I wanted to but I just couldn't ask if he would take it back
So I could know for certain
So on the bench, I watched his left hand crossing
While doubling entendres with the voicings
He said "Oh darling, you're charming, please don't find it alarming
If I pull this stop out to free up a hand for heavy petting
Now there, there, I'm a friendly man
I joke about sex because it's funny when you're frightened"
[Verse 2]
So silently I sat and turned the pages
Recalculating our respective ages
Over my shoulder, he muttered, "If I get any older
You can hack my wrists off with your choice of objects
No, I'm kidding
Don't be scared, I'm a friendly man
I joke about death because it's funny when you're frightened"
[Chorus]
This is as far as I could get
He jabbed a needle in my neck
Erasing all the evidence
But there were matchsticks in my pants
And if a rock should hit my head
And I remember what he did
You'll be the very first to know
Maybe I'll find out why this damn thing won't stop bleeding
[Verse 3]
He told me that I showed a great potential
That given I turned heads and pages fame would be a piece of cake
But practice was essential
So like a stupid child, I believed it
And golly, who would ever had agreed if
I had been Schubert or Mozart
Devoted to the fine art of perfecting absolutely everything inconsequential
Don't be sad, I'll come back again
I joke about trash 'cause it takes class to be enlightened
[Chorus 2]
So several decades have gone by
I am still sitting by his side
I turn the pages faithfully
He turns his head and smiles at me
And with a wink he says, "I doubt
We would be anywhere without
Your gift for keeping truth and consequence from meeting"
Lonesome Organist Rapes Page-Turner was written by The Dresden Dolls.
Lonesome Organist Rapes Page-Turner was produced by Sean Slade.