Dark Lyrics
Listeners who delve into Rhodes' lyrics are often surprised to realize how dark they are, especially in her earlier albums. Rhodes often wrote songs about depression, suicide, death, ghosts, monsters and aliens because they are subjects that interested her. Rhodes has never spoken in-depth about her childhood, but several interviews have indicated that it was unhappy. School was especially difficult and she has talked about being tormented and abused by her peers. Painting and writing music were escapes for her and negative feelings were often translated into lyrics. Rhodes has said in interviews that she suffered from depression at various times in her life, and many fans feel that she is particularly talented in putting her feelings while depressed into words via her lyrics, often identifying closely with them.
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“she drew back a while,
Then, yielding to the irresistible joy,
With frantic gesture and short breathless cry
Folded his frame in her dissolving arms.
Now blackness veiled his dizzy eyes, and night
Involved and swallowed up the vision; sleep,
Like a dark flood suspended in its course,
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