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Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Mrs. O (page 1/1) ------ performed by The Dresden Dolls Amazing song | Reviewer: alien | 9/28/2008 I love this song. My first impression was actually that this 'Mrs O' person had taught the person singing about Santa Claus - which she now sees as a lie - and also about historical events like the Holocaust. So basically, she's now lumped the Holocaust in with things like Santa Claus, causing her to disbelieve everything that Mrs O has taught her. (closer inspecting the lyrics has shaked my faith in that, but hey, nothing like extra interpretations) The meaning | Reviewer: Stryx | 9/13/2007 I d say, that this song is about things invisible and the change of paradigm and the consequences. Further Meanings | Reviewer: Ookami | 6/8/2007 Dear Editor- I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it's so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? -Virginia O'Hanlon Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus? Thank God! He lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. (Printed as is, from the New York Sun, 1897) -------------------------------------------- The meaning of the song can be accurately derived from this letter - its' basically about denial of terrible events which have occurred throughout history - and childhood innocence. Amanda Palmer truly is a lyrical genius. i love this song | Reviewer: nick apodaca | 5/3/2007 this song is about a lot of things mainly i believe it is stating facts about the holocaust. what it means... | Reviewer: alicia | 4/20/2007 the song is supposed to represent people's denial of the holocaust and hiroshima. it's meant to be sarcastic. when amanda palmer is singing about april trains she's refering to the trains that the nazis transfered the jews in in april. the jews were also forced to carry their belongings, which i'm assuming she is refering to when shes talking about hair dryers. it is a deep song though and i love what it represents. Oustanding! | Reviewer: Tiffany | 2/16/2007 This song is deep, I like it I just wish I knew what was behind the lyrics! Add Your New Review About The Song