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The title track from Emilie Autumn’s second album “Opheliac”
The whole album and this song revolves around the archetype of the namesake that depicts a woman that is doomed solely because she is a woman. She is a parcel that is manipulated by the malicious outside forces around her.
This archetyp...
[Verse 1]
I'm your Opheliac
I've been so disillusioned
I know you'd take me back
But still I feign confusion
I couldn't be your friend
My world was too unstable
You might have seen the end
[Pre-Chorus]
But you were never able
To keep me breathing
As the water rises up again
Before I slip away
[Chorus]
You know the games I play
And the words I say
When I want my own way
You know the lies I tell
When you've gone through hell
And I say I can't stay
You know how hard it can be
To keep believing in me
When everything and everyone
Becomes my enemy and when
There's nothing more you can do
I'm gonna blame it on you
It's not the way I want to be
I only hope that in the end you will see
It's the Opheliac in me
It's the Opheliac in me (Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
[Verse 2]
I'm your Opheliac
My stockings prove my virtues (My virtues)
I'm open to attack
But I don't want to hurt you (Don't want to hurt you)
Whether I swim or sink
That's no concern of yours now
How could you possibly think
[Pre-Chorus]
You had the power to know how
To keep me breathing?
As the water rises up again
Before I slip away
[Chorus]
You know the games I play
And the words I say
When I want my own way
You know the lies I tell
When you've gone through hell
And I say I can't stay
You know how hard it can be
To keep believing in me
When everything and everyone
Becomes my enemy and when
There's nothing more you can do
I'm gonna blame it on you
It's not the way I want to be
I only hope that in the end you will see
It's the Opheliac in me
[Bridge]
Studies show:
Intelligent girls are more depressed
Because they know
What the world is really like
Don't think for a beat it makes it better
When you sit her down and tell her
Everything gonna be all right
She knows in society she either is
A devil or an angel with no in between
She speaks in the third person
So she can forget that she's me
Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt
Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love
[Chorus]
You know the games I play
And the words I say
When I want my own way
You know the lies I tell
When you've gone through hell
And I say I can't stay
You know how hard it can be
To keep believing in me
When everything and everyone
Becomes my enemy and when
There's nothing more you can do
I'm gonna blame it on you
It's not the way I want to be
I only hope that in the end you will see
But never doubt
You know the games I play
And the words I say
When I want my own way
You know the lies I tell
When you've gone through hell
And I say I can't stay
You know how hard it can be
To keep believing in me
When everything and everyone
Becomes my enemy and when
There's nothing more you can do
I'm gonna blame it on you
It's not the way I want to be
I only hope that in the end you will see
Opheliac was written by Emilie Autumn.
Opheliac was produced by Emilie Autumn.