Amanda Palmer - Voicemail For Jill
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 3 мар 2019
- “Voicemail For Jill“ - produced by John Congleton - is the second single from my new solo album THERE WILL BE NO INTERMISSION. it's out on march 8, 2019 (international women's day, mofos).
if you want to read more about why and how i wrote this song...i posted a blog here: / song-about-for-24809982
go to www.AMANDAPALMER.net NOW to learn everything about the ALBUM, the ARTBOOK and the global TOUR. pre-orders with special Vinyl & CD merch bundles await you.
this song, my album, and all of the art i've been making over the last three years was funded by over 14,000 people on patreon.com. people there support me, my staff, and my collaborators so we can draw a sustainable salary to MAKE ALL THE THINGS. come join to help me make MORE THINGS and get special merch, tour pre-sales, and all album news first for as little as $1/month: / amandapalmer
LYRICS:
Jill, it’s Amanda, just waving from London
I know that you’re going tomorrow, the hardest decision
And I’ve been on the side of the phone for a month
And I know you’re in hell and you know that I know what you’re feeling
Life’s such a bitch isn’t it?
When you have a baby, they throw you a party
And then when you die they get together for a cry
But no one’s gonna celebrate you
No one’s gonna bring you cake
And no one’s gonna shower you with flowers
The doctor won’t congratulate you
No one on that pavement’s gonna
Shout at you that your heart also matters
I’m not sure that you’ll get this in time,
I don’t know if you’re checking your voicemail at all, but in case it’s the morning
And you’re off of the green line and walking through Copley
I want you to stop for a second, I want you to listen
You don’t need to offer the right explanation
You don’t need to beg for redemption or ask for forgiveness
And you don’t need a courtroom inside of your head
Where you’re acting as judge and accused and defendant and witness
It’s a strange grief but it’s grief
Look at all the women in the street
You know the statistics, Jill
Even though they may not help Isn’t it amazing
How we can never tell
Who is in an identical hell
No one’s gonna celebrate you
No one’s gonna bring you cake
And no one’s gonna shower you with flowers
The doctor won’t congratulate you
No one on that pavement’s gonna
Shout at you that your heart also matters
No one’s gonna compliment you
No one’s gonna nod their heart
And wink in league with what you are pursuing
No one’s gonna tie surprise balloons
Onto your desk at work
And no one’s gonna ask you how you’re doing
But I’ll be back in Boston by next Thursday
Why don’t I come over?
I can bring some friends if you want us to come
We can bring you cake and we can bring you flowers
We can bring you wine and we can talk for hours
Ukulele by request
We’ll throw you the best
Abortion shower 
Видеоклипы
I wonder how many Jills are out there, feeling the same. It must be sad, living in a world where so few people even know how to approach this kind of grief. But it's wonderful how it just takes a song to make people start to think. Thank you, Amanda.
Hugs for each and every Jill. You are all brave and you are all loved.
It is such an absurdly isolating experience. Thank you for this gift ❤️
I listened to this beautiful song and, when i could speak again, all I could say was "holy fuck"! I cannot remember the last time a piece of music moved me so much, touched me so deeply. Thank you is inadequate to express my appreciation, but it's all I have right now.
I listened to this song blaring in one ear while I had the procedure. I didn’t cry until after. Amanda Palmer and her empathy, it warms me. More than anyone else can/has. The few that have asked me how I feel in the days following knew, they mean more than those that have now pretended it never happened.
I hope your decision, as difficult as it has undoubtly been, will help you along in your life. Respect and support for you, even though we don't know eachother!
It already has. I have 2 toddlers as a 23 year old single mother and I just want them to have as much as I can give. Maybe later on, when I’m further in my life will I revisit adding a little one to our lil family 🖤
Thank you for knowing we'd want to read the lyrics.
Beautiful song from beautiful Amanda. Thank you.
My heart aches. So beautiful.
Thank you.. this song litterally had me in tears.. i understand this emotional rollercoaster. Thank you.
This song is so very moving. So compassionate. So beautiful. Deeply moved right now. Thank you Amanda for putting words for something that sometimes there are no words for 💗
Her album is so amazingly beautiful and more than I could have ever expected!!! ❤️ I'm so excited about the tour! I love that she chose the single album cover, that I voted for. This cover shows Amanda Palmer with her head up towards the future holding a young girls hand whose face could be any of us. We are Jill. Thank you so much Amanda💖
THE FIRST CHORD LITERALLY ELECTROCUTED ME. THE FIRST TWO CHORDS SOUND SO CLOSE TO WANT IT BACK AND I WAS HIT TOO HARD IN THE FEELS WITH THE SECOND ALTERED CHORD.
I'm pro life for myself, but pro choice for others, because my beliefs are that.. MY own, and I don't need to cast them on others. I will never judge a woman for making that decision, because It is HER own to make, and the reasons behind it are personal, and I'm sure much deliberation was made. I couldn't imagine lying there while the procedure is done. It must be so scary, closest I came to this was when I experienced a miscarriage, and needed a D&C when I was much younger. I felt what Jill must've felt though through this song. It made me cry. If I knew a Jill I would send her flowers. This song was nicely done, and really put things in perspective.
I know this is old, but I only just saw your comment and I wanted to thank you, for not judging, for not forcing your beliefs on others, for trying to understand
I think their is a difference between judging a persons worth for doing something you believe is immoral, and then observing that what they are doing is in your view immoral. The former is a judgment of worth, the later is your right as a human to discern right from wrong.
@@minerrale6715 ❤
Thank you.
This is the whole point of pro choice! Pro choice has always, ALWAYS had the option to choose for having the baby, and even to believe that the life of the unborn matters.
Anti abortionists are always trying to picture us as people who go around deliberately murdering babies and forcing people to have abortions, which is soo far from the truth.
Nobody *wants* abortions, but sometimes they are necessary. And it's good to hear when people who have chosen not to abort are standing with those that chose to. We are in the same boat, we all make our choices and they are valid.
And the total of songs that make me cry by Amanda is up to 3: this one, the bed song, and of course, electric blanket.
Tears. Every. Time..
this is beautiful. love it.
This is meaning so much to me. Thank you.
I never really took into consideration before hand how it would leave me feeling I just knew it needed to happen and fast and I was saving up the 600, there were so many other things going on that needed my focus. There is no way to know how your supposed to feel after an abortion, it was something that I needed to do but never something I wanted to do. I tried to just forget about it, it drug out after I was left with a uterine infection leaving me with severe anemia. I didn't feel like I deserved to be sad because it was my choice. I didn't even know why I felt the way I did, and I had no one to talk to about it. Years later I found this song that's been out for so long that I just never listened to by Amanda. Making me face a lot of feelings I tried to bury. But it's true all you can do is keep going.
Thank you, Amanda. It's been awhile for me to hear a song that made me shatter and want to bear hug every girl I see on the on the street.
Sisterhood. Bonded through our experiences & our truths! Thank you. 🐚
🌜🌝🌛🌚
This makes me feel so many things all at once, and I'm speechless. Thank you Amanda
so powerful. thank you for sharing your stories with us. we love you amanda
Wow - just brilliant. Thank you for this.
THIS IS GOLD I LOVE THIS WOTH EVERY ATOM OF MY BEING. I know that this song should be sad and talk about abortion but it makes me want to live
So perfect and wonderful. Your work is so important. ❤️
Thank you for singing the truth.
So many in the conservative groups make it seem as though women are flocking in droves to abortion clinics on a lark, like it's a part of their daily errands: "Oh, I'll just get a quick abortion and stop off for a latte". The reality is, as our dear Amanda has demonstrated, far different. Thank you, Amanda, for sharing your grief. I know you are helping a lot of women who are seeking an outlet for their own grief.
for some women it is quick abortion and celebrating and huge relief, and it's ok, because there's nothing wrong with abortion
@@dickottel true. But not everyone sees it like that. A lot of women don't have positive support to lean on, and indeed are made to feel as if they are doing something bad. Personally, I believe that whatever one does is between them and whatever god they believe in, if any.
SkoczMiNaPukiel you are a monster for thinking that of other human beings. You are accusing them of being the monster that you are. It’s trite and easy to step up on your self made pedestal and pass judgement, you have no idea or you are a liar. Life is a shit show, give everyone a hug.
@@mjxdesign what the actual hell are you even talking about?
Nice way to label. As "our dear Amanda" said..."you can never tell who is in an identical hell." You actually think conservative women don't go through this? That anyone would take this lightly?
Today, I'm a great grandmother. But 50 years ago I was a "Jill", back when safe abortions were illegal. We made our choice, took our chances, and most of us don't regret our decision... sad though it was.
This lovely song says it all.
You don't need to offer the right explanation
You don't need to beg for redemption or ask for forgiveness
And you don't need a courtroom inside of your head
Where you're acting as judge and accused and defendant and witness
It's a strange grief but it's grief
Look at all the women in the street
You know the statistics, Jill
Even though they may not help
Isn't it amazing
How we can never tell
Who is in an identical hell
TheCheesecakedeath my favorite part of the song❤️
@@nicole.5346 mine too
Wow...just wow...
Beautiful ❤️ and it’s such a great point. It’s a life milestone whether you want it or not and it matters.
absolutely beautiful!
I love you Amanda! I may be male but I have had many female friends go through this. Their hearts have always mattered to me. That's why I've supported them and their decision, Now most of them have beautiful children that I love. Pro-life people in America always take the "Murderer" route when they have no fucking idea what pain this decision takes. Yet they're only pro life until the baby is born. It's a total shit show as you know. I can't wait for your new album. Its going to be amazing. To all to "Jills" in the world I support and love you and whole heartedly respect your decision. ❤
Mr. KonVolutionX I know this is from forever ago but I just found this song and I wanted to thank you for this comment
Guys, if you are hurting, please do not watch the link posted holless above me. I wish there had been someone to warn me. Much love to everyone who makes it to this song
@@calharris8197 i know your reply was posted forever ago, sorry I didn't get to it sooner, but you're welcome. 😁❤
ooof true. “only pro life until baby is born“ is such a terrible thing. they're gonna leave a kid to live in poverty or with abusive parents...
Thank you so much for this 🌻
I just experience this, I needed this song . Thank you Amanda ♥️ I feel really lonely
Beautiful dude! Looking forward to the new record. :)
Such a nice surprise to see this in my notifications, love you Amanda!
Thank you 💜
Me and my husband crying in bed.
Your heart also matters
Heart breaking but comforting. You could correlate this song to the feeling of a miscarriage as well.
Thanks
I know this song is about abortion but I listen to this when I grieve my miscarriages. Noone brought us flowers and we didn't have cake and they didnt matter to anyone but me and my partner.
I give flowers to my friends when they have an abortion now because they hurt too.
I'm divided. I love the song, amazing voice and touching lyrics. Grief is grief, everyone should be able to express it. And altought I don't agree with the decision of having an abortion, I see how hard is this, for everyone, pro or contra. Thank you Amanda, for this song. You made me cry. You made me feel.
I'm kind of in the same position. I understand why this is something that needs to be allowed because the world today is such that the entire pressure falls to women when it comes to having babies in every sense... Even under the best of circumstance families hardly stay together anymore. I had 2 kids and was married before 20 and today i struggle very hard because we did not stay together. You can't even count on that even when you think you can; you and your babies can still be thrust into the world alone.
But why dont i agree with having an abortion? It hurts women, many women have told me the regret they would have, and I know for myself if i did consider it an option for me neither one of my sons would be here. Life is so fragile and precious and rare I feel like it is always a gift even under the worst of circumstances. We didnt ask for this kind of world we are just trying to find our own way... I dont judge other women though, even my mother had a number of abortions before i came around.
I think it should be ok for a person to think something is not 'right' on principle (understanding that these principles apply to my view) and hopefully others know i dont judge them
@@dan_mnght Thanks for your your polite reaction( i hate it when I can't discuss topics without one side or both being rude). I'm against abortion, because I think the baby is a person from the conception, and ending it's life is immoral. The usual week limit for having an abortion in the USA is 24( it is a bit diiferent in each state). I don't see how can you draw a line that one day it is perfectly fine to end a pregnancy, and the next day it is a crime. When can you say that a baby is a person? When they have organs, mouth, nose, ears(10 week), have unique fingerprints(13 week) when they can hear(19 week)? Or when they can stay alive outside the womb? The most premature baby who stayed alive was born at 21 weeks( remember 24 weeks is the standard limit for having abortions). I don't think that we should make the decision, that when exactly is someone a person, with a life to value. In my opinion the only time when abortions are acceptable, is when the mothers life is life in danger. Than it is a life for life situation. So, this is why I'm prolife, I hope it helped. What's your oppinion?
@@kjam9085 I hope you don't mind if I throw in my 2 cent here: 24 weeks is the limit, but no woman would carry a baby for 24 weeks and then decide to abort unless something would be harming the mother or the baby is already lost. 24 weeks is a long time, when a woman knows she does not want to be pregnant, an abortion usually happens in the first 2 or 3 weeks.
@@FaeSparrow I didn't know that, thanks for the new info. But still, if not the majority, some have late abortions. But I still think, that even at 2 or 3 weeks it is a human being, a life. It is not less or more just because it's age. In your oppinion what should be the maximum time limit to having an abortion, or should there be any?
@@kjam9085 personally, I disagree since I think there are no brainwaves yet that would proof that the embryo is alive. But I understand and respect your opinion.
alguien en español
John Congleton? As in The Paper Chase??
This a very hard decision to make even harder to live with. People judge, make rude comments and say put the baby up for adoption. One begins to wonder having the baby will be a hard life when your alone. No one is there to help. What do I have to offer a baby, what if it the adoption parents are bad, what if no one adopts the baby and gets raised in foster care being abused. What if I’m I want my baby back? Adoption parents could be good, maybe I’ll never have a chance again and no, I just don’t see any other options. It’s all confusing because of fear, loneliness and lost emotions. Making this choice is raw, painful, emptiness and heartbreaking. Many ladies don’t get therapy for this experience so it leaves a black mark on your heart.
You hear this song a lot different when you've had a pregnancy loss that wasn't your choice.
Life's such a bitch, isn't it?
GENAU DATT ZEIGTE MIR RAhEl VON ihRA FREUNDIN, dEZA kLAViER,kAbARET,dAME,dE,SO,SONkX,MAtA,dEA,SO,ZYNISC,WARn,nEA,yoayA,GEnAuh,aba,r,nie,verstand,englisc,
I'm grappling with being a devoted Amanda Palmer fan and also very much pro life. Songs like this aren't easy.
I understand that. However, the myth of a frivolous abortion is just that, a myth. This is the real part. And you don't have to like every song, even this one. This is just the true part of the reality. Peace & Love.
Same here. I love the song, but partly disagree with the message.
im pro life, but grief is grief. It hurts to lose a child in anyway.
edit: I just read the blog post and that wasnt the real message of the song. Though, anyone can interpret this song in anyway they want. That's the beauty with writing.
This song moved me incredibly when I first heard it.
Then I found out that Amanda Palmer had THREE abortions (perhaps more since the Russell Brand interview I watched). I guess that makes her an expert on the subject, but at the same time it seems like her getting pregnant is about as big a deal as a getting a parking ticket. I'm Pro Choice, but I'm also Pro Learn From Your Mistakes and Take Some Responsibility. That thinking goes against the victim narrative that is so popular today.
Hi, a year later, but is important to know extended version. Yes, Amanda had three abortions: first one because she decided, twice because medical issues, risky pregnancies when she was married. She told about on her book and blog.
Greetings and happy holidays ❤.