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Valley Of The Dolls Lyrics
Artist: Dionne Warwick
Gotta get off, gonna get
Have to get off from this ride
Gotta get hold, gonna get
Need to get hold of my pride
When did I get, where did I
How was I caught in this game
When will I know, where will I
How will I think of my name
When did I stop feeling sure, feeling safe
And start wondering why, wondering why
Is this a dream, am I here, where are you
What's in back of the sky, why do we cry
Gotta get off, gonna get
Out of this merry-go-round
Gotta get off, gonna get
Need to get on where I'm bound
When did I get, where did I
Why am I lost as a lamb
When will I know, where will I
How will I learn who I am
Is this a dream, am I here, where are you
Tell me, when will I know, how will I know
When will I know why?
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Comments/Interpretations
Wow we can all relate to this
Still such a beautiful song even after all these years.
WTF??
haughtingly beautiful
One of the most beautiful and heartbreaking songs ever written!!!
If you've never seen the movie, and most commenteries are to young to know, then choose your words wisely. Post on something you may be educated in.
Written by Dory Previn - ex wife of Andre Previn, orchestra leader - after he had affair with Mia Farrow and left Dory - she has written many movie scores and has fantastic albums
Great song. Thanks for sharing one of life's best.
I was a child when this was wriiten and the words mean more now. Dionne talk to your cousin, Whitney
sends shivers down my spine. wonderful lyrics and melody.
boy is this a tearjerker of a song..love it and now that Nurse Jackie on Showtime Theme Song.
!5th line should be :
gotta get ON
It's about pill abuse
Wow, yes, tearjerker, in touch with the dark side of the 50s-60s: pill abuse...Wasn't there some suicide in the story too? "Dolls" was a word for barbiturates, wasn't it? The cover of the grocery store paperback had images of drug capsules scattered on the cover...certainly the song sounds like the singer was quite depressed...substance induced, most likely...very frightening and sad...I used to cry when I listened to an 8-track recording of DW singing it. I was 7 y/o Cub Scout...whew...
part two: all these programs dont work. he has been kicked out of all of them. now he is on parole. and still on this crap. we argue with him about these pills he takes, that he is going to get in trouble. he says how can he if their " perscribed" to me. so when i saw neelys character in the end all by herself screaming her name, that is going to happen to my roomates son, Richard Vines. I accepted that we cannot change him, its if he himself wants to change. thanks for listening.
Its more than just about substance abuse. Anyone who has been, is or near rock bottom will understand.
I loved this movie! my favorite however is the beautiful theme song.
Beautiful song, beautiful movie..even after all this time!!!
I love the songs
I was born in '69, so I had never heard of the movie until googling info on one of the actresses. I stumbled onto it earlier this year and this song blew me away. It was a sad story, but the theme song was amazingly rendered so well by Ms. Warwick!!! My daughter hopes to view it soon after hearing the music.
The movie was about pills, but the lyrics are more about Ann and Lionel's on again, off again relationship and how Ann finally finds the strength to realize what it is doing to her. The song does not play with lyrics until the end of the movie when she walks out on Lionel and down a snow covered path to her new life. It also plays in the beginning of the movie without the lyrics as she takes the train ride into New York to start her new life.
This song belongs to Whitney, her Aunt knew long ago the devastion drugs / pills can cause, its all in this song
I agree with you, Phil. I'm so sure that she wanted to escape the trap she was in. Her spirit is free now!
The song is mystical
Life's a puzzle it proposes
Like blindmen we grope in darkness
In the process we loose our souls, our pride
We almost forget what beautiful potential we had
Did W H Auden say the same thing or is it my imagination in these lines:
"Time and fevers burn away
individual beauty from thoughtful children"
Thank you for posting a gem from the past
That is such a fantastic song and it was beautifully written by Andre & Dory Previn.Dionne Warwick did an amazing job with singing this song and this song set a path on her career. The guy who wrote that poem knows how to write. Keep writing, Farhat!
As a student of mind control and all it's permatations, I would like to add this is a lament of someone who has been conditioned to perform as a mind control slave. Taking drugs,sexual promiscuity, and other behaviors are part and parcel to this type of control. Read the meaning behind the words and you will gleam the hopelessness of someone who has lost total control over their lives.
Still too relevant--in my 50's---husband and Dr. say I MUST take these for anxiety disorder. All I am is a zombie with masked anxiety. Therapy is a joke. Been there done that...
This song brings me back to the jungles of Vietnam. Going in circles like a deadly merry go round, not knowing when or where it will stop. W
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This song always brings me back to the jungles of Vietnam, as an infantry soldier going in circles and trying to stay alive.
I remember the song and the movie. I've always thought it was a fantastic song. Now that I'm a widow, the words take on a whole new meaning.
love the song!
I have always loved this song. Watched the movie in my youth, probably the first time at a movie theatre w/o family present. Movie beautifully shot, a bit weak on plot, beautiful actresses and theme an awakening for a prepubescent male virgin, but from that day, that song has haunted me. I've always felt that the song had a life of its own, apart from the movie. I don't believe the song originally was written about drugs. It's about wrestling with personal demons, identity in crisis, taking responsibility for one's self, charting a path rather than letting life happen to us, rather than allowing others to define us. A previous post-er stated that Dorie wrote this during or after her breakup w/Andre Previn. I don't know how accurate that statement is, but it would certainly explain a lot.