Throwing Muses : Ellen West

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Guitar Tab (courtesy of Red Eyes)

APPEARS ON:

- The Real Ramona, 1991

- Works In Progress 1, released 1998-1999

- 10-4 All (Kristin solo), 2008

- The Season Sessions: Spring, 2011

TRIVIA:

- Kristin's psychologist recommended to her that she get a huge mirror - whenever she began to "disappear" she should check the mirror to make sure she was still there and whenever she saw something in the room with her she should check the mirror to make sure it wasn't there.

WORDS FROM KRISTIN:

"Ellen West was the pseudonym of a patient of 19th Century psychologist named Ludwig Binswanger whose problems seemed to us to be ahead of their time or maybe more accurately, timeless. This song went through many incarnations before it was finally realized on The Real Ramona."

"Ellen West"

(written by Kristin Hersh)

That last one messed me up

Things look bad, things look tragic

I keep looking in the mirror

Afraid that I won't be there

Courting Ellen West

Dancing on her grave

Saving Ellen West

My house is full of demons

I swear to god...

I need to go to bed

I need to go to sleep, I'm awake with a vengeance

Courting Ellen West

Dancing on her grave

Saving Ellen West

'Cause she wanted it this way

My mouth is full of demons

I swear to god...

I need to go to bed

I need to go to sleep

I need that hope chest

I need it to breathe

I need you here

I need to disappear

Don't worry, dance in the road.