i put on sia's lady croissant album today (one of my favorite albums...sia is the vocalist for zero 7). this is the first song. i started laughing when i heard it because it reminded me of a conversation i had yesterday. i dedicate this song to a radiant friend of mine.

you have her pictures,
you have her pictures,
you have her pictures everywhere.

you're covered in stitches,
you're covered in stitches,
you think i can't see them, but i know they're there.

take her down from the wall,
let yourself fall,
you can't keep her frozen, dormant at your court,
you can try to move on, tripped by stitches come undone.

you lost your big heart,
you lost your big heart,
you lost your big heart beating bare.

she gave you a new start,
she gave you a new start,
but you knew you'd lost her to despair.

take her down from the wall,
let yourself fall,
you can't keep her frozen, dormant at your court,
you can try to move on, tripped by stitches come undone.

your skin burns and prickles,
your skin burns and prickles,
your skin burns and prickles when she's near.

you try to play it cool,
you try to play it cool,
you try to play it cool, but you're filled with fear.

take her down from the wall,
let her go, or make her yours,
you can't keep her frozen, dormant at your court,
you can try to move on, tripped by stitches come undone.
you can try to move on, tripped by stitches come undone.
you can try to move on, tripped by stitches come undone.
you can try to move on, or maybe she is the one.

-sia, pictures

Pictures - Sia

Sia's hilarious story about the song in an interview:

Yeah, I was working in my friend's studio and he had broken up with his girlfriend about eight months prior, and he had all these pictures up behind his computer in the studio of him and his ex girlfriend these huge posters of her all over the studio. And it had been such a long time, and he talks about her all the time but he wasn't sure whether he wanted to be with her or whether he didn't, and I was at the end of a very long song writing period and was looking for inspiration. Because the f***ed part about writing songs everyday is that you end up not having any life to actually write about; you can't write about writing songs and it becomes this kind of catch 22. So, I guess I just looked up and thought I'll write a song about him being incapable of moving on. So I wrote it and gave it to him and he was both touched and alarmed and removed all the photos.