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Desdemona, do not go to sleep
Brown-eyed Tosca, don't believe the creep
I see it in his eyes
And why don't you ladies believe me when I'm screaming?
I always believe you
Violetta, keep your man locked up
Or like Cio-Cio, you will end up burned by love or sickness
And why don't you ladies believe me when I'm screaming?
I always believe you
There is a knock at the door, tell me it's not Mimi again
Or is it Gilda's waiting passion to be stabbed and killed again?
Katya Kabanova, why did you marry him?
You knew his mother was a bitch and would keep hold of him
Oh, Pamina got away from mama
Before the age of Rambo Opera
Damned ladies of Orpheus, your arias cause a stir in my sad, sad and lonely heart |
- Desdemona - beautiful opera heroine who is strangled by Otello in Verdi's Otello
- Tosca - opera character who leaps to her death in Giacomo Puccini's Tosca
- Violetta - Violetta Valéry is a female opera character who dies in Verdi's La Traviata
- Cio-Cio - female character who commits suicide in Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly
- Mimi - female opera character who dies in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohéme
- Gilda - opera heroine who is stabbed to death in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto
- Katya Kabanova - woman who throws herself into the Volga River in Katya Kabanova
- Pamina - her mother threatens her in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
- Rambo Opera - probably Rufus' casual term for opera where heroines die
- Orpheus - the myth of Orpheus is common in operas: passionate love brings death
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- "A song about my obsessive relationship with opera heroines - Madame Butterfly, Tosca, Mimi. It has a Viennese-type arrangement, sort of like something you'd hear in The Third Man. In the song, I lament how these women are constantly dying brutal deaths, which I can see coming but cannot stop. It gets me every time."
- The demo version from a 1995 DreamWorks tape is also in circulation
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