Emilie Autumn: 306 Meaning

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Three hundred and six
In only six years
If it was an accident,
Where are the tears?
I am still unidentified
Behind the cathedral
Is where my body hides
But I'm not inside
Just one of sixteen
In only one day
If it was a game,
Why...

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Aug 2nd 2012 !⃝
This song is about, or at least heavily inspired by, L'Inconnue de la Seine, a young woman whose body was pulled from the Seine River in Paris in the 1880s. A pathologist at the morgue found her so beautiful (with a strange, tranquil smile), that he had a plaster death mask cast of her face. Copies of this mask became a fixture in artists' homes until the mid-1900s, and the popular CPR dummy Resusci Anne is modeled on it.

"306 in only six years" refers to the number of apparent suicides in the Seine during the 6-year span in which L'Inconnue was found. "If it was an accident, where are the tears?" seems to allude to the girl's incongruously pleasant expression. "One of sixteen" refers to the fact that she was one of sixteen suicide victims found in the river that week. "I am still unidentified behind the cathedral" refers to the unidentified nature of the body (to this day) and the fact that such bodies were often buried in unmarked graves behind churches. The rest of the song is a fairly obvious reference to suicide by drowning and the emotions behind it.

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