so.....two days before i left for california, the 'Jackie's Strength' single came out. i picked it up, came home, popped it in,
and was knocked on my ass by 'Beulah Land'. holy mother. INCREDIBLE song, that one!
and from then on that day, it was on repeat on my cd player. haha

later in the day, i was talking to one of my dearest friends and she was questioning some lyrics...she didn't tell me the song. so she's like...."your beautiful home?? what??". i'm like...."hmm?". she goes, "beulah land!! i'm trying to figure out what the hell she's saying." i go, "OH!! GOD. i LOVE that song!!". she goes, "so do I!! i'm just trying to figure out these words. ahahhaha"
so, we were trying and trying to go through them and....i got an idea.

"so, um....you know...i'm leaving for cali in two days..."
"yeah..."
"what if, like....okay. you write out what you think the lyrics are. i'll do the same. we'll 'put them together' in some way and then. um....i'll try to get tori to help us with them when i get to california."
"oooohhhhh.....okay!!!"

so, we both did that. and she got her interpretation to me and mine to her. we put them together. la la.....this is what we came up with:

Beulah Land (our guesses)
Beulah Land
got a wasted gun/gone (?)
licorice man
some you are
thumbs out
I got something I'm not saying
Beulah girl...
you better hitch me up (? i have no clue...)
got some cand and a sweet saying/sane/thing (?)
gimme religion and a lobotomy
Beulah land
your beautiful home
tell me when I don't need you anymore
and said that Somewhere
you're gonna get something here
so your're right in the middle
and then I'm you
something is coming back again
and I said...you
maybe I don't wanna go
to live where you're not and
so Beulah land
gotta find me a warm place to be
this body I'm dying (?)
got a rubber bullet/boat (?)
and a crocodile
gonna float past your home
say when
just say when
just say when
[end]

so, i wrote them out packed them with me and was off to california.

when i got there, i told my friends what i was going to do. they all thought it was pretty cool :)
for some reason, though....i was kind of. chicken. about doing it. hahhahahaa i don't know. i was afraid she wasn't going to do it or something. my friend (the person who did they lyrics with me) was POSITIVE she would go over them with me....but.....i was unsure.

i decided to give it a shot in santa barbara. i was all ready to do it and stuff, but there wasn't to be a meet and greet that day. blah!!! i decided to write a small note to her and in it i mentioned that my friend and i were really curious as to what the lyrics to 'beulah' were and i asked her if she would 'possibly' be willing to go over them with me. maybe.......?? hmm.
so...oh well. next show. (hopefully hopefully hopefully)

okay. Los Angeles. the first Greek show. i was going to do it then, by golly. i was *ready*. so we waited and waited and waited and she finally pulled up. and i was wetting myself b/c i was way nervous about asking her. so she's talking to people and stuff moving down the line and she gets to me and it's chaos and people are shoving things and her face and whatnot and she sees me and grabs my hand and goes, "hold on, i'm almost there, okay?" and i go, "okay...". and she's signing stuff and i'm waiting and then she looks at me.

"hi hon, how are you?"

"oh, i'm good i guess..." i felt really hurried. as ALWAYS. ugh. "um, Tori?" i pulled out my lyric sheet. "my friend and i are really curious as to what the lyrics to 'Beulah' are....um...this is what we came up with. um...do you think you could help us out??". she then grabs my lyric sheet out of my hand and starts going through it.

(photo by erindolll)

"beulah land..." she sings, "got a wasted..." (her head was right next to mine as she was singing this...i was dying...) and then she pulled out her sharpie and started correcting it and explaining some of it to me. like....hmm. you know the feeling when you turn in an English paper to your professer/instructor and they sit there with it and go through it with you and you feel sort of dumb while they are doing it b/c you are like....'duh, i knew that'...and. you know. it felt like that. if that makes any sense. hahahaha

so, she goes through the entire song with me. yay!!!

            
(photos by erindolll)

that was soooo cool of her to do. :)
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and here are the lyrics. what she corrected and stuff. what she changed off of mine and my friends is in red. comments (mine and tori's) are in blue.

Beulah Land
Beulah Land
got a wasted gun/gone (she accidently forgot to mark what it was...she may have told me, but i forgot. :/)
licorice man
I'll sum you up
thumbs up
I got something in that sand (the two underlined parts...she said they kind of go together...and the 'in that sand' is a dipthong)
Beulah girl...
you better hitchin me up
got some candy and a sweet saying/thing (she kind of agreed to both :/ )
gimme religion and a lobotomy
Beulah land
your beautiful whore (this is where christa goes, "oh REALLY...hmmm...")
tell me when i don't need you anymore
and said that somewhere
you're gonna get something here
so you're right in the middle
and then i'm you
something is coming back again
and i said...you
maybe i don't wanna go
to live where you know and
so Beulah land
gotta find me a worm a place to be
this body on down (she saw the 'this body i'm dying' part and she goes..."ehhhhh....." and i go, "hmmmm..." and she goes...."ehhh...." and i go, "ehhhh....?" and then she looks at me and goes, "eh...[shrugs shoulders]....kind of..." and corrects it. she didn't cross out the 'i'm dying' part, tho. hmm.)
got a rubber board
and a crocodile
gonna float past your home
say when
just say when
just say when
[end]

this is what i wrote out
and what tori corrected. shoomp.

and that was it! yay!
i thanked her and got a hug.
and she moved on down the line.

:)