Matt Jaffe - Voodoo Doll by Bill Plympton

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'Voodoo Doll' is a love song. The kind you don't want written about you. But then again, I've discovered "that hate and love are reciprocal passions."* So at least the song's muse escaped indifference, a fate much worse than hate. My most memorable performance of the song was at San Francisco Juvenile Hall, after which a young woman asked me why I sang the words 'voodoo doll' so many times. I told her it was the title of the song. She reiterated how many times I had sung it, so I asked her if it was too many. She said definitely, going on to tell me she wasn't a fan of my music in general. I hadn't anticipated the show turning into a focus group, and, while I appreciated her candor, I hope you'll enjoy this song a whole lot more. (*Gabriel García Márquez, "Chronicle of A Death Foretold")

A Plymptoon Production
Director & Animator: Bill Plympton
Producer & Editor: Rachel Braga Jones
Color Design: Sandrine Plympton
Coloring: Katrina Villarreal, Kiera Ferguson and Bianca Rose
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Voodoo Doll - Matt Jaffe

Angels are flying everywhere she goes
Let’s let the light in, this chapter has to close
An iron mask, a cattle prod, if I ask, she’ll make me God
A velvet voice will speak in tongues like radium inside your lungs

She has got my voodoo doll, she’ll throw it off a waterfall
It’s the only way she knows at all to say she loves me
She has got my voodoo doll, she’s soaking it in alcohol
It’s the only way she knows at all to say she loves me
She has got my voodoo doll, she’ll hit it with a cannonball
It’s the only way she knows at all to say she loves me

A foreign feeling irritates my skin
As she’s revealing a torso full of pins
My logic fails, her ardor falls, pain prevails within four walls
My arms and legs are tied in knots, she hits me like a train of thought

When I awaken, frozen in my dreams
Words are forsaken and traded in for screams
A fairytale under martial law, a nightingale with a fatal flaw
An even keel will overflow with chaos hiding down below