Anna Molly

Album: Light Grenades (2006)
Charted: 66
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Songfacts®:

  • Frontman Brandon Boyd said on his record label's website that like Incubus' best "rock out" tracks, this was written quickly and effortlessly. He added: "Lyrically it's a lament about the perfect woman in my mind's eye being anomalous - she probably doesn't exist - and trying to transcend that strange emotion that a lot of people go through - women have about men and men have about women - whatever - that they have this idea in their mind about their perfect mate when what they should be doing is trying to experience a human being for what they are and not what they think they should be."
  • The song's title is a play on the word "anomaly," which means "deviation from the rule."

Comments: 3

  • Snake Plissken from South Of HeavenYea I guess I can add this to the playlist, change things up a bit.
  • Timmy from Mukilteo, Waawesome song. brandon boyd is a great lyricist
  • Delaney from Hot Springs, SdThis song is my favorite song in the world!
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