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The Truth (Norma Jeane)

from Ghost Kitchen by Two Words in Japanese & Bianca Stücker

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THE TRUTH is a biographical song about Norma Jeane Mortensen aka Marilyn Monroe. The lyrics take a look at Norma Jeane's childhood, adolescence and later years as a young actress. A life marked by emotional abuse and physical exploitation. Marilyn learned to do anything to please people. She clings to every man who supposedly gives her the paternal security that she missed as a child. And yet she is exploited by men for their own needs.

In the lyrics, the actress's Stockholm syndrome in relation to her perpetrators becomes clear. She appears promiscuous on the outside and transforms into the fictional character everyone wants to see in her. But there are also her own dreams, her powerful intellect that no one seems to care about, and the tempting pack of sleeping pills lying next to her favorite James Joyce novel, Ulysses, on her nightstand.
Since she was a fervent admirer of Sigmund Freud's work, the founder of psychoanalysis cannot be left out of this play about Marilyn Monroe.

lyrics

12 days without a memory
And 7 years of peace
All shattered into pieces
When Gladys took you back

Her breakdowns, the asylums
You’d often changed your homes
And you wished yourself away
To some protective Dad

It’s hard to start
if you don’t start
with the truth

Lost feelings of attachment
Relations on and off
They all demand a piece of yours
A filling for their lacks

Emotions helter skelter
Your path was set by men
With no respect for limits
Dissociate – and fade to black

It’s hard to start
if you don’t start
with the truth

Do you have a dream for me?
Would you please project your needs into me?
May I serve you, may I please?
Who can save this little Norma Jeane?

Happy Birthday to you
Feels so tragic and blue
Makes you cry on the spot
An emotional wreck

Ulysses on your nightstand
Your sleeping pills at hand
Whatever you had given
You never got it back

It’s hard to start
if you don’t start
with the truth

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from Ghost Kitchen, released October 27, 2023
Music, lyrics, arrangements, mixing & production by Nico Steckelberg

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