| | All Tomorrow's Parties Lyrics Artist(Band):Velvet Underground
And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties A hand-me-down dress from who knows where To all tomorrow's parties And where will she go and what shall she do When midnight comes around She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown And cry behind the door And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties Why silks and linens of yesterday's gowns To all tomorrow's parties And what will she do with Thursday's rags When Monday comes around She'll turn once more to Sunday's clown And cry behind the door And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties For Thursday's child is Sunday's clown For whom none will go mourning A blackened shroud, a hand-me-down gown Of rags and silks, a costume Fit for one who sits and cries For all tomorrow's parties If you find some error in All Tomorrow's Parties Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Thanks to Pascal for submitting the lyrics. Review about All Tomorrow's Parties Thursday | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/15/09 I recall back in the late sixties that people used to say "It's Thursday today", implying something erotic or sexual. I never quite got what. I have always thought of this song in that context. Or possibly Monday as the "dreary first day", Thursday as the promise of the weekend coming, and Sunday as teh spent week, the end. These can, of course be seen from the point of view of a life - childhood, adolescence, and approaching old age, or as before a relationship, impending relationship and endof relationship. Certainly the feeling of the temporariness of everything is very present. existential is right | Reviewer: Jay | 8/19/09 I agree with all the meanings people have found so far. When I first heard this, it spoke to me immediately, in a way connected to, but also separate from all those meanings. An earlier poster said the song is "about an existential dread, or an anxiety of time. the fear of getting old and being young and trying to always look fresh and beautiful". That's how I read the core meaning too, with "all tomorrows parties" being both a literal reference to the parties to come, and a strong metaphor for our increasingly futile attempts to hide from pain and mortality through distraction and drugs, as time wears on. It's a song of mourning for the future loss of a youth that has yet to be completed, but whose coming loss casts a pall back in time, ruining what should be the enjoyment of a golden time. I agree with George's assessment right up until the last verse (or two?) of the song. I think the ending is saying that if she's going to cry about not being cool at a party she deserves to be despised (i.e. the rags and mourning shroud suit or "fit" her). There's a cruel recursiveness to it - she cries because she can't dress "cool", and is despised and dismissed all the more for crying. It seems like she'd get more respect if she held her head high. But probably not much more. How much of this song is intended to reflect back on the Warhol crowd, rather than the girl herself? What does it tell us about that crowd and their values? The ending puts a twist on it | Reviewer: Bob | 7/31/09 I agree with George's assessment right up until the last verse (or two?) of the song. I think the ending is saying that if she's going to cry about not being cool at a party she deserves to be despised (i.e. the rags and mourning shroud suit or "fit" her). There's a cruel recursiveness to it - she cries because she can't dress "cool", and is despised and dismissed all the more for crying. It seems like she'd get more respect if she held her head high. But probably not much more. How much of this song is intended to reflect back on the Warhol crowd, rather than the girl herself? What does it tell us about that crowd and their values? review | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/30/09 i think you are all on the right track but it is really more about an existential dread, or an anxiety of time. the fear of getting old and being young and trying to always look fresh and beautiful. "thursday's rags" implies that the clothes of a few days ago are already old, out of trend. the girl always ends up on sunday, the last day of the week crying because she is trapped in a cycle where she is always left in hand me downs and rags. she cant keep up. Reference to 'the Factory'!! | Reviewer: George | 7/19/09 Apparently it's about the Warhol clique. On Wikipedia is says that Lou Reed wrote it in reference to what he saw going on at the Factory The 'poor girl' I think is some kind of wannabe - used to be cool but has fallen out of fashion (and fortune) with the rest of the group, who now see her as a joke (a clown). She goes to the parties but can't really afford to. Dresses a bit tragically/unfashionable perhaps, and everyone thinks she's pathetic. Quite mean actually! But hey, it was probably the reality of some unfortunate girls' plight. Could it be about Edie Sedgwick perhaps!?!? you really think its a bout a girl and a clown? | Reviewer: Peter | 7/11/09 I am pretty confident that there is no actual clown involved with the meaning of this song. the girl is the clown because she feels fake dressing up in old clothes when everyone around her is sporting the hot new fashions. she goes home and cries after because she feels like such a phony dressing up and she believes she has nothing. but i think the real meaning of the song is that the girl shouldnt be so self conscious about her appearance or her social class. she makes herself worthy of the inadequate clothes by being so preoccupied with her appearance and making herself feel bad all of the time. the last two verses imply that by being so untruthful in the end she gets nothing and has no one there for her. it is sad, but it has an inspirational message that the girl shouldnt have been so concerned with her appearance and should have been proud of who she was. this was a lesson nico learned coming from humble beginnings to high society. sad? hmmm, | Reviewer: gno-wave | 11/10/08 a very misunderstood song, its not a sad song at all, its about a girl getting the clown on sunday to make her weekly dresses, she cries behind the door to win his sympathy, he possibly being the guy from the night before debauichery... the stylising is wonderful indeed, and invokes a mystical medieval ball, and strange things afoot, in fact i think psychedelic folk bands like the incredible string band and the pentangle would have been proud to have bagged this one, but would they have been able to create the rustic abrasive almost painted tones of cale? very direct, very honest, and they simply allowed the fashionable chemicals of the time to speak thru their own playing, most musicians are too eager for acceptance to do that, the velvets appeared to relish it. i dont think seven those psycchedelic folk bands could have recreated this type of imagined folk style, like a folk tune from no particular culture, seeping thru the chemical haze, , they (pentangle,) would have been too prfessional, too anal, if you will,and that was another key to the success of the velvets, an almost "professional-amateur" approach if you will. very psychedelic for the velvets, who usually come across as speed/heroin heads yoh, they certainly have their pensions paid i should think all tomorrows reviews | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/7/07 this song is a masterpiece. Its sadness and monotony go hand in hand with nicos beautyfull tired but serious vioce. it is like a sleepy butterfly in a hailstorm. Thanks nico! :-)))) Review the song All Tomorrow's Parties The area is only for review, if you want to submit the lyrics or the corrections of the lyrics, please click the link at the end of the lyrics.  Download "Velvet Underground" Music | |
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