Tori Amos love thread

5am friday morning, thursday night, far from sleep
I’m still up and driving, can’t go home obviously
So I’ll just change direcition
'cause they’ll soon know where I live
And I wanna live
Got a full tank and some chips

It was me and a gun and a man on my back
And I sang “holy holy” as he buttoned down his pants

You can laugh, it’s kind of funny, the things you think at times like these
Like, I haven’t seen barbados, so I must get out of this

Yes I wore a slinky red thing, does that mean I should spread
For you, your friends, your father, Mr. Ed?

It was me and a gun and a man on my back
But I haven’t seen barbados, so I must get out of this

And I know what this means, me and Jesus a few years back
Used to hang and he said “it’s your choice babe, just remember
I don’t think that you’ll be back in 3 days time so you choose well”
Tell me what’s right, is it my right to be on my stomach of a red Seville?

It was me and a gun and a man on my back
But I haven’t seen barbados, so I must get out of this

And do you know carolina where the biscuits are soft and sweet?
These things go through you head when there’s a man on your back
And you’re pushed flat on your stomach, it’s not a classic cadillac

Me and a gun and a man on my back
But I haven’t seen barbados, so I must get out of this
I haven’t seen barbados, so I must get out of this

sights and sounds
pull me back down
another year

i was here
i was here

whipping past
the reflecting pool
me and you
skipping school

and we make it up
as we go along
we make it up we
go along

you said - do i have-
of course i have,
beneath my raincoat,
i have your photographs

and the sun on your face,
i'm freezing that frame

how did it go so fast
you'll say
as we are looking
back

and then we'll
understand
we held gold dust
in our
hands

sights and sounds
pull me back down
another year

i was here
i was here

gaslights
glow in the street
(flickering past)
twilight held us
in her palm
as we walked along

and we make it up
as we go along
we make it up as we go along

how did it go so
fast
you'll say as we are looking back
and then we'll understand...

we held gold dust
in our
hands

in our
hands...

JPS79 wrote:

I quit listening after boys for pele, but still to this day love Little Earthquakes. But damn if my tape won't play anymore, after reading this thread I'm gonna have to buy the cd, forgot how many good songs were on it. Winter will always be my all-time fave though.

PLEASE get scarlet's walk. if you don't you're missing out on a LOT of good, good tunes.

i have a really hard time with boys for pele, only a few songs do i really love from that one. but additional listens tends to cure that, especially when it comes to complex artists like tori.

tybird wrote:

Love that Tori Amos!!!! Caught her on the Choirgirl Hotel tour......great, great show. But as much as I love Tori, I love the original version better.......KATE BUSH!!!!!

yes, kate bush is another (old) favorite of mine, though i haven't been bowled over by much except her sensual world album. every single song on that album is amazing.