What do they mean?

[gemma_rae]

Does anyone have a take on what these lyrics mean?


Alice Heimer Words and Music
By Lorrie Riddell




She wakes alone and wonders for a moment, where in the world she is.
There's no one home and she is panic stricken, how did it get like this.


She makes her bed because it feels familiar, humming an ancient tune.
She drifts again, into the realm of strangers, leaving her life in ruin


CHORUS: Alice Heimer, what have you done with your life,
Did you put it up on a shelf out of sight,
Will you bring it down one day, when you're on your way
back home to love and the light
Alice Heimer's gone (home)


A corner chair, her mind begins to wander, thinking of days gone by
Her daddy's plans, her sweet and jolly mother, scenes that played out of time


The tv drones, she doesn't seem to notice, searching for words in lines
She comes and goes, asking the same old questions, where has she been this time


CHORUS:


She rests her head, and in her darkest hour, prays not to be like this
She wakes alone and wonders for a moment, where in the world she is

 

[migtig]

Makes me think of someone suffering from Alzheimers. :shrug:

 

[gary_webb]

Makes me think of someone suffering from Alzheimers. :shrug:

A play on words perhaps.
Alice Heimer
Alz-heimers.
Good theory!

 

[migtig]

A play on words perhaps.
Alice Heimer
Alz-heimers.
Good theory!

I didn't catch that at all. Good job yourself.

 

[GWguy]

Sounds like someone who has recently lost someone due to a bad choice, and she contemplates what went wrong, but continues with life in a perfunctory fashion, by habit.

But I look for meaning at face value. If it's deeper than that, it's beyond my train of thought.

 

[migtig]

Sounds like someone who has recently lost someone due to a bad choice, and she contemplates what went wrong, but continues with life in a perfunctory fashion, by habit.

But I look for meaning at face value. If it's deeper than that, it's beyond my train of thought.

Having lost someone to Alzheimers as soon as I read it, that's all I could think about.
Especially towards the end, she'd be totally panic sticken when she woke up, never knowing where she was and how she got there. Only remembering the faces and names from her childhood and not anything or anyone more recent. Really heartbreaking.

 

[GWguy]

Having lost someone to Alzheimers as soon as I read it, that's all I could think about.
Especially towards the end, she'd be totally panic sticken when she woke up, never knowing where she was and how she got there. Only remembering the faces and names from her childhood and not anything or anyone more recent. Really heartbreaking.

Re-reading in that context, it sounds very plausible.

mig.

 

[belvak]

A play on words perhaps.
Alice Heimer
Alz-heimers.
Good theory!

My first thought too.

 

[gemma_rae]

Sounds like someone who has recently lost someone due to a bad choice, and she contemplates what went wrong, but continues with life in a perfunctory fashion, by habit.

But I look for meaning at face value. If it's deeper than that, it's beyond my train of thought.

This is really getting deep because a woman I know is being divorced by her husband for repeated infidelity and has a parent in the advanced stages of alzheimers! She is who I heard the title from. Very sad!

 

[migtig]

Re-reading in that context, it sounds very plausible.

mig.

It's just a really sad disease that robs you of being you.

 

[Monello]

a woman I know is being divorced by her husband for repeated infidelity

Skank.

 

[Kinnakeet]

Sounds like to much Vodka to me.

 

[Monello]

But I didnt like silly love song Paul McCartney wrote either.

That's because you've most likely never been to Junior's farm, abby road, penny lane or blackburn lancashire.

 

[Kinnakeet]

That's because you've most likely never been to Junior's farm, abby road, penny lane or blackburn lancashire.

Was uncle Albert there?

 

[RoseRed]

Was uncle Albert there?

In his yellow submarine.

 

[Monello]

Was uncle Albert there?

No, but Prudence was.

 

[Kinnakeet]

No, but Prudence was.

But she was reluctant to come out and play because she had just witnessed some yellow manna custard dripping from a dead dogs eye