To Talk to You

Echoes of Longing: PJ Harvey's Poetic Connection with Ancestral Yearning
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Lyrics

Oh, Grandmother

Expressing a connection with the speaker's grandmother.

How I miss you

Conveying a sense of longing and missing the grandmother.

Under the earth

Suggesting the grandmother is buried or deceased.

Wish I was with you

Expressing a desire to be with the grandmother in the afterlife.


To talk to you

Desire to communicate with the deceased grandmother.

To talk to you

Reiterating the longing to talk to the grandmother.


I found somebody

Reference to finding someone to connect with emotionally.

Tried to give myself to

Attempted self-giving to another person.

Many a times

Emphasizing the frequency of attempts to connect with others.

I wanted to talk to you

Expressing the unfulfilled desire to talk to the grandmother.


If I laid on the earth

Pondering the idea of being close to the earth and the grandmother.

Could you hear?

Poetic question about the possibility of the deceased hearing the speaker.


Oh, Grandmother

Reiteration of the speaker's loneliness and connection to the grandmother.

I?m so lonely

Expressing a profound sense of loneliness throughout life.

All my life

Reflecting on the enduring nature of loneliness.


If I laid on the earth

Repeating the contemplation of being close to the earth and the grandmother.

Could you hear?

Repeating the poetic question about the deceased hearing the speaker.

If I lay

Continuation of the contemplation about lying on the earth.

Mary

Reference to another person, "Mary," possibly connected to the theme.

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