Babydoll

Album: The Babydoll EP (2004)
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  • Though Kay Hanley usually writes from other people's perspectives, this song, which is about the relationship between herself and her mother, and her relationship with her daughter, is more autobiographical. The line, "Deget, degat, degur" is something her daughter Zoe said as a small child. Hanley is best known as the frontwoman in Letters To Cleo. >>>
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    Daniel - Durango, CO

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