Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor

Electro-Shock Blues, Track 1

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Lyrics

Laying on the bathroom floor
Kitty licks my cheek once more
And I... I could try
But waking up is harder when you wanna die

Walter's on the telephone
Tell him I am not at home
'cause I... think that I
Am going to a place where I am always high

My name is Elizabeth
My life is shit and piss

Related Interview Extracts

Q: It's a quite hard beginning on the album, cause it must be about your sister.

E: Yes, after my sister died a couple of years ago I didn't want to write about it because it seemed to painfull of many reasons. But after some time i began to think about her and the things she had been through, and i began to think about myself and my mother who had cancer and my father who had died earlier. I was the last person in my family, that made me think about mental ilness and cancer and i began to look at the world and how everything is connected. It was in a moment like that i woke up and thought: " I have to write about this. It make sense, and it's a worthy story giving to people.

http://galaxy.bykr.org/archive_interviews_gaffa1098.htm

Favourite parts

There is a tremendous emotion in the line "But waking up is harder when you wanna die". It's very overpowering. I always find myself singing this line. There's a brutal honesty to this line which expresses what the poor girl felt.

And I... I could try
But waking up is harder when you wanna die

Later in the song, the girl dreams of the place she is going, a place where she is "always high", where she is never depressed.

'cause I... think that I
Am going to a place where I am always high

Trivia

Was written in a Paris hotel room.

Walter was Elizabeth's boyfriend at the time.

The song depicts Elizabeth's first attempt to commit suicide. She failed at this attempt but succeeded years later.

Finished 17th in the 3speed Best Eels Song poll 2002.