To Carrie Fisher With Love
By: Melissa Cox
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This is a one-take video (which means there are no camera cuts or edits. While shooting, if we messed up, we had to start over!) The video and song speak about the hardships of being an indie musician while dealing with issues like alcoholism, scandal within the music industry, debt, and mental health, while trying to have a sense of humor about it all. It is part personal outpouring, part diatribe on the music industry, and part homage to one of my heroes: actress, author and comedian Carrie...
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Three degrees from PMDD to insanity, Diagnoses and psychotherapy. Either too crazy or not crazy enough It's true: it's the artist's catch 22. Well I love your "was-band" but just for his words. A short little bald man with a sexy tight verse, Could he give my man a pointer or two On how to love a woman who'se loosened her screws? Did you get my postcard Carrie from the edge of my heart? The one I mailed to you right before I jumped. It's a million miles from Denver to Newark. Will I ever get there before I fall apart? I'm an imposter at an Al Anon group. I need something stronger than this chicken soup To heal my addiction to anonymous praise, To halt my quest for elusive fame. A million miles, a million roads, One princess, a million toads. I do the show, I go home alone. Carrie is this just how it goes? Well do you like this song about my mental state? Too bad it won't see any radio play. Guess the only way to get famous these days Is to go Gaga half naked at the cabaret.
