MARIAN GOLD ON “WAYS” (Crazyshow, 2003)

“Hey Mrs King, I wonder where you´ve been
You lived inside my dreams
The happiest Katie I have ever seen
Now you changed and turned into a bee
While I tuned into gee
It makes me feel like starting up anew, I meet you at the moon
Because I´ve finally found that the world is round…
And the snowflakes outside…”

…in the original lyrics it was “zoo” instead of “moon”.
Katie King is the name of a ghost who allegedly materialized during a séance 
in London conducted by a certain Mrs. Florence Cook in 1871. Check out 
Wikipedia, it holds all the details.
Mrs. Fields is a reference to the song “Strawberry Fields Forever” by John 
Lennon. That’s why I installed a strawberry-cake in the next line.
Mrs. Grey is just a quite depressed me and the middle 8 part lyrics served 
as some kind of self-encouragement at the time.

I started writing the lyrics some late November afternoon. It was snowing 
outside and strong winds pushed the snowflakes around. Impossible to follow
a single one with one’s eye. Myriads of moves, complete entropy. It somehow 
reminded me of the theory of parallel universes. I wondered that if there 
existed an unlimited number of universes, each one representing a certain 
probability of events, even the most nonsensical incidents could happen. It 
was kinda fun to write these absurd verses and imagine them occuring in the 
reality of another world, maybe even creating this reality exactly in the 
moment of their invention. But then again, what actually is nonsense? If I’d 
carry on explaining our song I could make complete sense of it. How boring. 
I better stop here.
There’s so much left to do…
Come out t’ play, dear Prudence!

Marian Gold