The Antlers - Thirteen Lyrics

Yes it refers to sylvia plath.
No the singer is not stephen seibler.... it's peter silberman.

But the song has multiple meanings. One being about Sylvia Plath, one being about the character Sylvia in Hospice. If you read the alternate titles you would know that Thirteen is also called "Sylvia Speaks." So as for the story this is about Sylvia being near death. She either wants to stop dying or just wants everyone to leave her alone. It's open to interpretation.

There are a number of sylvia plath references that are incredibly obvious. The only way that comment makes any sense is if you mean that they aren't to be taking literally but metaphorically.

nowhere, at any point in this album, is stephen seibler talking about sylvia plath. you are a ________

This is the second of two songs on the album about author Sylvia Plath, (source: http://www.kevchino.com/interv... the other, of course, being Sylvia (about her suicide, where she gassed herself in her oven).

This song relates to her first suicide attempt, where she crawled under her house and after taking an overdose of sleeping pills (source: American Novelists Since World War II, 1980)

And I know all you purists will shout about how this album is completely and singularly about the cancer patient, but you need to realise the point of a concept album. This is not a novel. This is a collection of songs, based around that idea.

I am right, you are wrong.

this song is one of the ones on the album that actually scares me- in a good way:) still dont know what it means