Story Behind The Song

The movie "Girl Interrupted" inspired this song.

Song Description

September Moon is a song is about a girl who is essentially locked up because she is considered "crazy." She is inside a physical prison as well an an emotional prison. Dancing is a metaphor for escape.

Lyrics

September Moon © 2005
There?s a girl in the hall with a painted smile;
she?s wistful with the hope of redemption;
can?t remember the day she came undone
and fell in million pieces on the ground.
It?s been three lonely years since she lost her mind;
i doubt this is the place she will find it;
surely disappear if you erase her favorite lies,
two arms and two legs without a name,
waiting to take turn in another game.
Then one amazing day as the gods arranged her doom,
she danced beneath a pale September moon;
the purifying rain released the shackled souls
of all the broken people tired of hiding in a locked room in their hearts,
waiting for a moment to just fall apart.
There?s a voice in her head that?s bigger than life
drowning out the sound of hopelessness,
that hums in the wake of all these vacant eyes,
clawing through the cobwebs in their minds,
waiting for the bad guy to go blind.
Then one amazing day as the gods arranged her doom
she danced beneath a pale September moon;
the purifying rain released the shackled souls,
and all the broken people danced as one
(underneath the moon) - in the light of the moon...
she danced and inside she felt like new; she was new.
There?s a resonant glow on these 4 walls,
so much for the rest of this long day;
she breathed in a glimpse of what she once was,
bound to any memory she finds
before falling through the crevices of time.
Then one amazing day as the gods arranged her doom
she danced beneath a pale September moon;
the purifying rain released the shackled souls
of all the broken people tired of hiding in a locked room in their hearts,
waiting for a moment to just fall apart;
they are two arms and two legs without a name,
waiting to take a chance another day.