OPALUS -
Please tell us more about the following lyrics found in your album.
1.) “Somewhere there’s a tin girl in need of an oil change”
LYRA BROWN -
I was really inspired by the tin man from The Wizard of Oz and felt that I could relate to him in many ways when I wrote this song. I was really taken with the idea of not having a heart and needing badly to get it back, but being unable to because of being stuck or paralyzed by something beyond your control. It's about desperation and powerlessness. I also thought about how when he is exposed to tears or water of any kind, he seizes up and rusts. I attributed that to my own life in a lot of ways, and that line is almost like a smoke signal in hopes to call out to all other girls like myself who feel stuck and alone and like they are in a need of a change yet feel blocked or incapable of making one.
OPALUS -
2.) “Lover without lover, friend without a friend, Pay attention to the signs at every dead end. Nothing is as it seems, and yet everything is”
LYRA BROWN -
This lyric I wrote as a kind of consolation to myself. I find myself very influenced and inspired by paradoxes, because there is always so much truth to them. I was thinking about how when we think we know someone, we may have no idea who they are at all, including ourselves. The person that we show to the world is most often not the person that we are behind the scenes. I think that's a lonely thing to realize, and it's easy to feel like you've hit a dead end with no way out in sight. But because we are human, we are flawed, and we don't always think to look or pay attention to potential solutions at the times when we are at our most hopeless. I think this lyric is a reminder to be present, especially when we find it most difficult to continue on living. There is always, always hope - we just have to make the choice to see it.