She challenged gangsta rappers on their own fast-talking turf, demanding, "Why not speak truth about our misguided youth?" She took the role of an irresistible goddess, tantalizing mortals and gods until she found herself unexpectedly in love.
Kraus disputes the obsession but admits that when she wrote "I Love Dick" she found herself thinking of Acker's novels, and that she was drawn to the idea of writing about an intimate world recognizable to its inhabitants.
Coming from a culture that picks up and moves on quickly after the death of a loved one, she found herself lonelier than she anticipated months after her loss.
But then their eyes met and both she and he turned in stunned amazement to watch the other descend/ascend, though she found herself wondering, even as her love-struck heart beat wildly, if perhaps he was her husband.
Though ruthless, she finds herself falling in love with one of her intended victims.
Though she wants nothing more to do with men, she finds herself falling in love with a stoker, Mat Burke Derek Wilsonn), a strange gift from the sea, who is fished from a boat wreck to recover on Chris's barge.
When 31-year-old poet and essayist Ester Nilsson is invited to give a lecture about the "magnificent and singular" artist Hugo Rask, she finds herself falling in love with him.
As her affection for Keats deepens, she finds herself in a love duel with Keats's friend and fellow poet: a Scot by the name of Mr Brown – a man dressed by Campion (a little excessively) in tartan trews and matching waistcoat, and so abrupt, maladroit, gloweringly passionate and resentful that his first name might as well be Gordon.
The lyrics explore feelings of heartbreak and despair and express the singer's fear of rejection by a man she finds herself falling in love with.
