Bat For Lashes
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Bat For Lashes
Writer(s) Natasha Khan
Producer(s) Natasha Khan
David Kosten
Released 11 September 2006
Recorded 2006
Length 3:56
Fur and Gold track listing
"Seal Jubilee "I Saw a Light"

"Sarah" is the tenth track on Bat For Lashes' debut album, Fur And Gold.

Background[]

The song was inspired by JT Leroy's novel Sarah, as revealed by Natasha Khan in an interview with Out Magazine in July 2009:[1]

On the last album I had the song “Sarah,” which was kind of inspired by the JT Leroy novel Sarah and she was blonde and I was black-haired in that one, so there is this sort of theme that might run through [my work].

A reworked version of the song was performed during the tour in support of Fur and Gold.[2] This live version was later released on the CD single of "What's a Girl to Do?" in 2007.[3]

Lyrics[]

Adopting Sarah's heart
Was never gonna be easy
With an angel tattoo sinking beneath her belt
Sarah
And the dirty blonde seawater
Seawater gushing down
Chewing fingernails in her shit-eating grin
Sarah

They cut out her heart when
She was a little girl
And in a fishing boat she thought she saw the shadow of God
Sarah
He didn't smile at her and she decided
He never came at all
And when she died she was going nowhere

Sarah, I want to be like you
Sarah
You know, sometimes I want to live like you
Sarah
So I know how it feels not to feel
Sarah

Adopting Sarah's heart
Was never gonna be easy
Changing from black to blonde to black to blonde
Sarah
But on the dirty tarmac of
The tarmac of a melting motorway
Gave me her clothes and told me to take her place

Sarah, I want to be like you
Sarah
You know, sometimes I want to live like you
Sarah
So I know how it feels not to feel
Sarah

References[]

  1. Michelson, Noah (July 2009) . "Bat for Lashes Redux". Out Magazine.
  2. "Bat For Lashes - Sarah (Glastonbury 2007)"
  3. "Discography | Bat for Lashes". Batforlashes.com. Archived from the original on 8 July 2009.
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