“Marry me, John, I'll be so good to you —
You won't realize I'm gone”
"Marry Me"
Marry Me (2007)
Contesto: Marry me, John, I'll be so good to you —
You won't realize I'm gone,
You won't realize I'm gone.
St. Vincent, nome d'arte di Anne Erin "Annie" Clark, , è una polistrumentista, cantautrice e compositrice statunitense.
Ha iniziato la sua carriera musicale come membro della The Polyphonic Spree. Ha successivamente fatto parte della band di Sufjan Stevens, prima di iniziare la propria carriera da solista nel 2006. Attualmente Annie Clark risiede a Manhattan.Il suo album di esordio, Marry Me , molto apprezzato dai critici, è stato seguito da Actor , il quale ha ottenuto anche un buon successo commerciale. Nel 2012 ha pubblicato un album collaborativo con David Byrne dal titolo Love This Giant. Il progetto che l'ha consacrata è stato comunque l'eponimo album St. Vincent , grazie al quale si aggiudica il Grammy Award al miglior album di musica alternativa nel 2015.
St. Vincent ha aperto i concerti per moltissimi artisti, tra i quali Television, Arcade Fire, Andrew Bird, Jolie Holland, John Vanderslice, Xiu Xiu, Death Cab for Cutie e Grizzly Bear. Ha lavorato con Bon Iver per la canzone Roslyn, che è apparsa sulla colonna sonora di The Twilight Saga: New Moon, e con Kid Cudi per la canzone MANIAC.

“Marry me, John, I'll be so good to you —
You won't realize I'm gone”
"Marry Me"
Marry Me (2007)
Contesto: Marry me, John, I'll be so good to you —
You won't realize I'm gone,
You won't realize I'm gone.
“I think I love you I think I'm mad.”
"An Actor Out Of Work"
Actor (2009)
“Honey what reveals you is what you hide away.”
"Save Me from What I Want"
Actor (2009)
QRO Magazine interview (2007)
“Come, my love, the stage is waiting,
Be the one to save my saving grace.”
"Jesus Saves, I Spend"
Marry Me (2007)
“In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.”
On working in the ensemble group The Polyphonic Spree.
QRO Magazine interview (2007)
On one of her compositions on the album Actor, in an interview for Billboard magazine (20 March 2009)
“I'm a wife in watercolors I can wash away what seventeen cold showers couldn't wash away.”
"Save Me from What I Want"
Actor (2009)
"Jesus Saves, I Spend" - ( Studio video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYoT14ZRY2E - Video of live performance on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt3ykoc4tu0) <br class="br">Marry Me (2007) <br class="br">Contesto: While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my days<br>in backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.<br>While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day,<br>I'm inside a still life with the other absentee.
“What me worry? I never do
I'm always amused and amusing you”
"What Me Worry?"
Paris Is Burning (2006)
“Tomorrow's some kind of Strangerland where all the news is good.”
"The Neighbors"
Actor (2009)
The Kate Bush Story (2014)
The Kate Bush Story (2014)
“The keys are in my pocket and they rattle you awake.”
"Save Me From What I Want" live @ SXSW 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRYdWtjFJn8 <br class="br">Actor (2009)
"Paris Is Burning"
Paris Is Burning (2006)
“Tomorrow's some kind of Stranger I'm not supposed to see.”
"The Neighbors"
Actor (2009)
“I'm crawling through landmines
Just to know where you are.”
"Landmines"
Marry Me (2007)
QRO Magazine interview (2007)
“It's time.
You are light.
I guess you are afraid of what everyone is made of —
Time and Light.”
"The Apocalypse Song"
Marry Me (2007)
“While people will cheer on the spectacle we've made
I'm sitting and sculpting menageries of saints.”
"Jesus Saves, I Spend"
Marry Me (2007)
“Sticks and stones have made me smarter
it's words that cut me under my armor they say…”
"Paris Is Burning"
Paris Is Burning (2006)
“Just like an amnesiac, trying to get my senses back.
Oh where did they go.”
"Laughing with a Mouth of Blood"
Actor (2009)
“Your lips are red
My face is red from reading your red lips”
"Your Lips Are Red"
Marry Me (2007)