Story Behind The Song

In college, I did a paper on performance sex and found that people who engage in performance sex often use the transforming nature of "performance" to temporary suspend their inhibitions and separate from the idea of self.

Song Description

Song is about the psychological release the Mardi Gras festival provides. Narrator describes the power in this sensual release.

Lyrics

Mardi Gras (music and lyrics by Angela Ramsey)

I am the star in this carnival, swaying? transforming.
Don?t think the walls of the Babylon will ever crumble.

Oh I waited so long to shut out the mental drain,
dancing with you in the flame.

When we came to Mardi Gras; in a trance we touched the light.
You feel erotic cut through the flesh of night;
we are the brightest stars in a weary universe.
I am the queen in this fairytale.

You lay your head in my knowing hands, purified with velvet touch.
I cast a spell with my headdress?feather illusion.

Love has captured you, but it?s the kind that lasts a day,
but you won?t forget it, no way!

When we came to Mardi Gras; in a trance we touched the light.
You feel erotic cut through the flesh of night.

And it feels, it feels like you?re home.
And it feels, it feels like you?re home; you?re home.

Oh I waited so long to shut out the mental drain,
dancing with you in the flame.
When we came to Mardi Gras; in a trance we touched the light.
You feel erotic cut through the flesh of night;
we are the brightest stars in a weary universe.

I am the queen in this fairytale; a painted dream, yes I know it well; so follow me on this beaded trail.
The taste of Mardi Gras; a little Mardi Gras; it?s like a carnival, when we came to Mardi Gras.