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Fontanelle album - Lyrics

Fontanelle album - Lyrics: Encyclopedia II - Fontanelle album - Lyrics

The album leads off with a blistering screed called "Bruise Violet": You got this thing that really makes me hot You got a lot & more when you get caught You got this thing that follows me around You fucking bitch I hope your insides rot [2] The "you" of this song has often been identified as Courtney Love of the band Hole, a former bandmate of B'jelland's with whom she had a well-publicized feud. However, the the song's theme of unbridled rage--often directed at a specifically female target--dominates the album in a w ...

Fontanelle album: Encyclopedia II - Fontanelle album - Lyrics

Fontanelle album - Lyrics

The album leads off with a blistering screed called "Bruise Violet":

You got this thing that really makes me hot You got a lot & more when you get caught You got this thing that follows me around You fucking bitch I hope your insides rot [2]

The "you" of this song has often been identified as Courtney Love of the band Hole, a former bandmate of B'jelland's with whom she had a well-publicized feud. However, the the song's theme of unbridled rage--often directed at a specifically female target--dominates the album in a way that transcends any specific individual.

Thus, in the song "Handsome & Gretel," the innocent girl of the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel" is denounced as a hard-boiled and promiscuous manipulator--an archetypal slut:

I vacuumed out my head Jumping from bed to bed My name is Gretel A soul of metal I've got a sloppy slot [3]

In the song "Won't Tell," however, the lyrics proclaim a kind of loyalty to "you," promising:

I won't tell on you ever See me do I wait forever for you Figure out your problem with me is you I won't ever be like you [4]

This concern with identity--which is the undercurrent of the anger of "Bruise Violet"--is expressed again in the song "Mother," which repeats the phrase "You are me." Addressing what seems to be the same person as both "Mother" and "Sister," the song turns "Bruise Violet"'s rage over stolen identity full circle: "I run from me & it shows/That's what you like me for." [5]