Suicide Underground lyrics

Song information

Artist: Air
Album: The Virgin Suicides

Lyrics

Everyone dated the demise of our neighborhood from the suicides of the lisbon girls
People saw their clairvoyance in the wiped-out elms and harsh sunlight
Some thought the torture tearing the lisbon girls pointed to a simple refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them:
So full of flaws
But the only thing we are certain of after all these years is the insufficiency of explenation

"Obviously doctor, you've never been a thirteen year-old girl."

The lisbon girls were 13, cecillia, 14, lux, 15, bonnie, 16, mary, and 17, therese
No one could understand how mrs. lisbon and mr. lisbon, our math teacher, had produced such beautiful creatures

From that time on, the lisbon house began to change
Almost every day, and even when she wasn't keeping an eye on cecilia
Lux would suntan on her towel wearing a swimsuit that caused the knife-sharpener to give her a 15-minute demonstration for free

The only reliable boy who got to know lux was trip fontaine
For only 18 months before the suicides had emerged from baby fat
To the delight of girls and mothers alike

But few anticipated it would be so drastic
The girls were pulled out of school, and mrs. lisbon shut the house for maximum security isolation
The girls' only contact to the outside world was through the catalogs
They ordered that started to fill the lisbon's mailbox with pictures of high-end fashions and brochures for exotic vacations
Unable to go anywhere, the girls traveled in their imaginations:
To gold-tipped siamese temples or past an old man, the leaf broom tidying the maw carpeted speck of japan
And cecelia hadn't died. she was a bride in calcutta

Collecting everything we could of theirs, we couldn't get the lisbon girls out of our minds, but they were slipping away
The colours of their eyes were fading, along with exact locations of moles and dimples
From five, they had become four, and they were all, the living and the dead, become shadows
We would have lost them completely if the girls hadn't contacted us

Lux was the last to go
Fleeing from the house, we forgot to stop at the garage
After the suicide free-for-all, mr. and mrs. lisbon gave up any attempt to lead a normal life
They had mr. hedly pack up the house, selling what furniture he could at a garage sale
Everyone went just to look
Our parents did not buy used furniture, and they certainly didn't buy furniture tainted by death
We of course took the family photos that were put out with the trash
Mr. lisbon put the house on the market, and it was sold to a young couple from boston

It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, but that they were girls
But only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling; still do not hear us
Calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time. alone in suicide
Which is deeper than death
And where we will never find the pieces to put them back together

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

"The Virgin Suicides" album track list