Delilah (The Dresden Dolls song)

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“Delilah”
“Delilah” cover
Song by The Dresden Dolls
Album Yes, Virginia...
Released April 2006
Recorded 2005
Genre Alternative rock, Dark Cabaret
Length 6:54
Label Roadrunner Records
Writer Amanda Palmer
Producer Sean Slade, Paul Q. Kolderie, and The Dresden Dolls

"Delilah" is a song by the punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls, released on their second studio album Yes, Virginia....

The song is speculated to have many meanings, ranging from Delilah (the subject of the ballad) being a woman who continues to come back to a man who doesn't treat her right, from Delilah being a prostitute who has fallen for one of her clients.

Amanda Palmer, the head Doll, wrote herself into the song, being a friend of Delilah.

“ In this same bar,

Where you slammed
Down your hand
And said, 'Amanda, I'm in love',
No you're not.
You're just a sucker
For the ones who use you
And it doesn't matter
What I say or do;
The stupid bastard's gonna have
His way with you...

 ”

In the song, Amanda is saying that Delilah is 'an unrescuable schizo' or else she's 'on the rag', blaming either of those for Delilah's actions.

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