Come here
Pretty please
Can you tell me where I am?
You
Won't you say something?
I need to get my bearings
I'm lost
And the shadows keep on changing
And I'm haunted
By the lives that I have loved
And actions I have hated
Ba da pa pa
I'm haunted
By the lives that wove the web
Inside my haunted head
Ba da pa pa ba da pa pa... (x6)
Don't cry
There's always a way
Here in November in this house of leaves
We'll pray
Please, I know it's hard to believe
To see a perfect forest
Through so many splintered trees
You and me
And these shadows keep on changing
And I'm haunted
By the lives that I have loved
And actions I have hated
Ba da pa pa
I'm haunted
By the promises I've made
And others I have broken, I
We're haunted
By the lives that wove the web
Inside my haunted head
Hallways... always...
I'll always want you
I'll always need you
I'll always love you
And I will always miss you, ah...
(Ba da pa pa ba da pa pa...) (x3)
Ba da pa pa ba da pa pa... (x3)
Come here
No I won't say please
One more look at the ghost
Before I'm gonna make it leave
Come here
I got the pieces here
Time to gather up the splinters
Build a casket for my tears
I'm haunted
(By the lives that I have loved)
I'm hau...
I'm haunted
By the hallways in this tiny room
The echo there of me and you
The voices that are carrying this tune
Ba da pa pa... (x12, to fade)
(Father: What is it, Annie?)
(Daughter: You think I'll cry? I won't cry! My heart will break before I cry!)
(Daughter: I will go mad.)

Poe (born Anne Decatur Danielewski; ; March 23, 1968) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Poe's musical style is a blend of rock, jazz, electronica, folk, and hip hop elements combined with intimate lyrical compositions. Many of Poe's songs have been featured in films and on television. Poe first hit the modern rock charts in 1995.
Some of her early charting singles included "Angry Johnny", "Trigger Happy Jack", "Hello", and "Hey Pretty." Videos for these singles had heavy rotation on MTV. Poe spent six years with Atlantic Records and is currently on her own label, Repoezessed Music Records.
Noteworthy was Poe's early involvement with her online community of fans. Her web site, and the fan sites that supported her early in her career, predated modern social networking platforms and were among the first of their kind. Atlantic Records' Senior Vice President of New Media, Nikki Sleight, referred to Poe's online power and one-on-one communication with thousands attending her concerts as "unheard of and pretty phenomenal" in Sleight's 1997 interview with Web Magazine.
In 2004, she co-founded the digital innovations agency Signature Creative Inc with John Gheur.
In September 2014, Poe received the title of UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador due to her invitation by Yoko Ono to participate in a UNICEF campaign and her donated performance. The campaign launched a world version of John Lennon's classic song "Imagine" featuring dozens of musical artists from around the world. Poe joined others singing in the music video that included a video clip of John Lennon that spearheads a global campaign by UNICEF to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
A truly frightening, wild ride. One of my favorite books, but I don't know if I could ever do it again.
nagsheadlocal wrote:
Mike "La Bomba" Elizondo
And how nice of Skydog to not berate your internet search abilities!
If you want to practice your internet searches, check out La Bomba's credits....he's actually a HUGE deal in the hip-hop/rap world with Dr. Dre/Eminem. He's bad ass!
A Tribe Called Quest reference on a Poe song, only in RP
Yep still there 6 years later!
Well, not to be disgusting, but I've not put her to bed. I didn't hear about Miss Poe until 2008 or so, and I'm completely at loose ends when I hear her voice.
Aiyy carramba!
Mike "La Bomba" Elizondo
Thanks, he rocks this one.
I have as well. On the remix of "Hey Pretty" the vocals are replaced by her brother reading an excerpt from the book. Oddly enough that's the version of song that was always played on my local radio station. And the book is a wonderful, very unique read.
Guess I was too involved elsewhere to have hit this power pop when it was new, but thanks to RP, I now own two Poe CD's (purchased through the RP links). Her story is compelling, especially when examined against her schizo/manic/depressive song sets.
I read it — well, as much as one can "read" that book - it's a trip, and this album is both the soundtrack to go with House of Leaves and a tribute to her father —he was one of the first people to ever try and do Sartre's "No Exit" in film. Such a talented family....