This Lucy hasn't found her Ricky

Our fresh pick this week is called A Girl, A boy, A graveyard by the angelic voice of Jeremy Messersmith. It is a hymn from beyond the grave, not just one verse but a couple verses of longing, just like a tombstone they lyrics are pretty straightforward. But while sharing this song a few questions started to emerge, for example, what is the singer to Lucy? Are the singer and Lucy already dead? Why has Lucy given up? Has she given up on life or just on finding her soul mate? Two of those questions we are aiming to answer with this post, we couldn’t necessarily take them to the grave with us and not share them with you.  

Lucy takes the long way home
meets me in a field of stone
she says "i don't know how i'm s'pose to feel
my body's cold my guts are twisted steel."

and i feel like i'm some kind of frankenstein
waiting for a shock to bring me back to life
but i don't want to spend my time
waiting for lightning to strike.

ooooh

oooooh

so underneath the concrete sky
lucy puts her hand in mine
she says "life's a game we're meant to lose.
but stick by me and i will stick by you."

cause i'm like a princess in a castle high
waiting for a kiss to bring me back to life
but i don't want to spend my time
waiting for just another guy.

          When Lucy meets the singer in the graveyard, she comes to him with a proposition. She’s lived her life in a sea of contradiction so far. Disney movies and valentines, I’m guessing, versus divorces and loneliness she sees around her. She’s an assemblage of hopes and dreams, a Frankenstein of what the good life would be, and yet will this happen? Will someone save her from the tower, where she is the princess entitled to a happily ever after? Lightning and Prince Charming, while they exist, are fickle and undependable solutions. The frustrating thing about this ultimate happiness is that there is seemingly nothing for Lucy to do but wait. The reason Lucy decides to meet the singer in a graveyard rather than, say, a garden is that she’s made up her mind. In a graveyard there’s no turning back; you’re in there for good. A garden would suggest hope and new beginnings, but Lucy is done with that, and she’s settled instead for the singer. She says, “We can’t win, but you’re a good consolation prize.” In this way, it’s sad but practical, a productive second best. What is unannounced is how the singer feels for Lucy. He agrees to meet her in a graveyard, respects her enough to write a song, and, while this is a subtle interpretation, I think he takes Lucy hands to show that he is there for her, even if she is the one coming forth with the deal. There is also the possibility that the singer is Lucy’s prince, and her confession is a more of a plea to save her. Step up! Why else would I tell you all this? In Jeremy Messersmith’s video, we have an additional insight, where it shows his character in fact climbing the castle high to redeem love’s true kiss. They are happy holding hands and, in fact, will do quite well together.

               Killer Queen wants to believe, especially after watching the video that the singer and Lucy are meant to be together, but I must respectfully disagree with her royal highness and instead give you my insight to this dreary song. The perfect question, I think, to this song is are Lucy and the singer dead? Are they simply souls floating around the graveyard, are they ghosts with nowhere to go? Do they have unfinished business? The first few lines can go with the first question in the way that she took the long way home, meaning the singer is already dead, that he’s been waiting for Lucy and while she took longer she’s finally in peace in her final home. She’s not sure how she’s suppose to feel meaning to me that obviously as a ghost she’s not sure how she should feel or if she should even feel at all, her body is cold, there is no circulation. She’s then comparing herself to Frankenstein feeling like a robot, which is a perfect way of saying that she was in a mundane routine in her life, that she really was waiting for some kind of slap to the face to bring her back to life. Lucy comes off as a pessimist, now maybe its because she’s dead or maybe she’s always been that way but the heartbreaking and ever so true line of ‘life’s a game we’re meant to lose’ is delivered in such a cold way that how can they not be dead? It’s clear they’ve already lost they’re seeing there was no way to win. How can you make it out of life alive? Now I realize she’s puts her hand in the singers but I think it’s simply cause she’s settling. She didn’t have any luck in real life so why would she wanna spend her after life waiting for just another guy when she has a perfectly fine guy waiting for her and listening to her. I don’t think this song or these characters have a happy ending, it’s my biggest dislike about the actual video for it. This song is filled with death and it’s filled with unhappiness and hopelessness. I’m not going to make it something that its not and I really don’t think you guys should either.

Not every story has a happy ending, it’s called real life, and sometimes it’s tragic, grueling, and/or heartbreaking just like this one is.  I know there aren’t really Caspers out there who are really looking for a love connection in the graveyards beyond the headstones and crying family members but I do believe that it’s an eloquent way of stating the fact when someone has lost hope or cause or simply have given up.