Monday, August 23, 2010

"The Body Breaks" by Devendra Banhart

She told me she grew up in Chile and had learned English by watching Mr. Dressup.  She said she had an apartment downtown but spent most of her time at her mother's big house in Senneville.  She told me that her father had been shot dead back home, that she had confronted his killer, that she had forgiven him. She told me she was studying law. She told me she worked at a gym, running a weight-loss program. She said she had once been engaged, and that she had once tried to kill herself, and had never fully recovered.  She told me she drove a red Mustang.  She told me she had a Hello Kitty tattoo on her butt. She told me she was once an underwear model.  She told me she had once been in a band.  She told me she played guitar and painted.  In fact, she said she painted a picture of me.  She told me she named her blanket and her mother's garden after me. When I left, she told me she missed me. She told me she loved me.

Of course, those were all lies.

I wonder if it was also a lie, then, when she said she loved the guitarwork on this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq-NuEXiKjE&feature=related

2 comments:

  1. i liked this one alot.
    I went to a castle in senneville before.one about camp please.

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  2. Thanks Coop. Next one'll be about camp.

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