Here are the lyrics and a link to the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrwIu3ygTyY
She walks in the room And checks out the faces We think she's all the seven wonders of the world But there's a sadness Hidden in the bizarre Moonlight and madness Living in a bell jar She dresses in black 'Cause sorrow is a magnet Everything comes to her like it was meant to be But she's frustrated Leaving things as they are What she created Living in a bell jar She feels so at home She's never alone But she's oh so lonely What is the crime In knowing your mind Set it free Attached to a mirror In her glass-sided prison She writes the note that will excuse her from this world It's complicated Living in a bell jar She suffocated Living in a bell jar
I think that it's really interesting how much this song relates to Esther's life not just in the lyrics, but in the music as well. The tone of the song is very loud and hectic. These loud, crazy noises are what I imagine Esther's mind sounds like. It is weird how the song ends in a different way then the book though. If it is about Plath's novel, I think that the band may have saw the end of the book to be a sort of "suffocation" for Esther. She is being "healed" by the doctors, but maybe that isn't such a good thing. Society wants her to be less "crazy" so they try to heal her, but they can't be sure that her "craziness" isn't normal. Maybe the band/ person who wrote this song saw her healing as a "suffocation" because she is being stuffed into the box that society believes people should belong in. In this world, people like Esther can't be themselves.
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