“Valley of the Dolls” is track #10 on Marina’s second album Electra Heart.
The song title refers to Jacqueline Susann’s book of the same name, which is one of the best selling novels of all time having sold 30 million copies. It is the racy story of three women trying to make it in showbiz, but get...
[Verse 1]
In the valley of the dolls, we sleep
We sleep
Got a hole inside of me
Of me
[Pre-Chorus]
Born with a void
Hard to destroy with love or hope
Built with a heart, broken from the start
And now I die slow
[Chorus]
In the valley of the dolls, we sleep
Got a hole inside of me
Living with identities
That do not belong to me
In my life, I got this far
Now I’m ready for the last hoorah
Dying like a shooting star
In the valley
In the valley
In the valley
[Verse 2]
Pick a personality for free
When you feel like nobody
Body
[Pre-Chorus]
Born with a void
Hard to destroy with love or hope
Built with a heart, broken from the start
And now I die slow
[Chorus]
In the valley of the dolls, we sleep
Got a hole inside of me
Living with identities
That do not belong to me
In my life, I got this far
Now I’m ready for the last hoorah
Dying like a shooting star
In the valley
In the valley
In the valley
[Bridge]
Back to zero, here we go again, again
Racing down into oblivion
Back to zero, here we go
I can feel it coming to the end, the end
[Chorus]
In the valley of the dolls, we sleep
Got a hole inside of me
Living with identities
That do not belong to me
In my life, I got this far
Now I’m ready for the last hoorah
Dying like a shooting star
In the valley
In the valley
In the valley
[Outro]
In the valley
In the valley
Valley of the Dolls was written by MARINA & Rick Nowels & Devrim Karaoğlu.
Valley of the Dolls was produced by Devrim Karaoğlu & Rick Nowels.
MARINA released Valley of the Dolls on Fri Apr 27 2012.
In a track-by-track interview about Electra Heart, Marina said:
‘Valley of the Dolls’ was the last song I wrote. It obviously takes inspiration from the film, more from the side of it that I was living in L.A. and it becomes such an empty place sometimes. I wanted to write a song about void, the...