Song Review
After learning that M83 is scheduled to open for The Killers during their Calgary stop, I felt it necessary to acquaint myself with the French dream-pop band’s latest album Saturdays = Youth. The song that really stood out for me on the album was the second single Graveyard Girl, released on April 8, 2008. The song is a fine example of the style M83 employs, and conjures up images of a Brat Pack scene with two young lovers flirtatiously exploring a county fair together……..or something along those lines. I suppose it doesn’t have to be a country fair. It’s just that when I listen to the song I can almost see Emilio Estevez and Molly Ringwald feeding cotton candy to one another.
Death is her boyfriend
She spits on summers and smiles to the night
She collects crowns made of black roses
But her heart is made of bubble gum
She spits on summers and smiles to the night
She collects crowns made of black roses
But her heart is made of bubble gum
Graveyard girl
Dark rags and red stars
She’s the dirty witch of her high school
She worships Satan like a father
But dreams of a sister like Molly Ringwald
“I’m gonna jump the walls and run
I wonder if they’ll miss me?
I won’t miss them.
The cemetery is my home
I want to be a part of it,
Invisible even to the night.
Then I’ll read poetry to the stones
Maybe one day I could be one of them…
Wise and silent.
Waiting for someone to love me.
Waiting for someone to kiss me.
I’m fifteen years old
And I feel it’s already too late to live.
Don’t you?”
I can’t help my love
For Graveyard Girl.
