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My dog won't bite if you sit real still
I got the anti-Christ in the kitchen yelling at me again
Yeah, I can hear that
Been saved again by the garbage truck
I got something to say you know but nothing comes
Yes, I know what you think of me, you never shut up
Yeah, I can hear that
But what if I'm a mermaid
In these jeans of his with her name still on it
Hey, but I don't care 'cause sometimes
I said sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here
Silent all these years
So you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts
What's so amazing about really deep thoughts?
Boy, you best pray that I bleed real soon
How's that thought for you?
My scream got lost in a paper cup
I think there's a heaven where some screams have gone
I got twenty five bucks and a cracker, do you think it's enough
To get us there?
'Cause what if I'm a mermaid
In these jeans of his with her name still on it
Hey, but I don't care 'cause sometimes
I said sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here
Silent all these years
Years go by, will I still be waiting for somebody else to understand?
Years go by, if I'm stripped of my beauty and the orange clouds raining in my hand
Years go by, will I choke on my tears till finally there is nothing left?
One more casualty, you know we're too easy, easy, easy
Well, I love the way we communicate
Your eyes focus on my funny lip shape
Let's hear what you think of me now but, baby, don't look up
The sky is falling
Your mother shows up in a nasty dress
And it's your turn now to stand where I stand
Everybody looking at you, here, take hold of my hand
Yeah, I can hear them
But what if I'm a mermaid
In these jeans of yours with her name still on it
Hey, but I don't care 'cause sometimes
I said sometimes I hear my voice
I hear my voice
I hear my voice and it's been here
Silent all these years
I've been here
Silent all these years
Silent all these
Silent all these years
i used to HATE tori, but over the last couple of years, i find i really like her stuff.
'orange clouds raining in my hand'.....hmmmm?
Her hair falling out?
Tori Amos polarizes people into love or hate camps but my God she is one of the most distinctive performers in pop music. She reminds a bit of Kate Bush but Tori's more unusual. When she's off, she's cringe-worthy. When she's good, she's amazing...like with this one.
huh?
What's so amazing about really deep thoughts?
Boy, you best pray that I bleed real soon
How's that thought for you?"
Ooof!! But as a man I must say I've always loved an intelligent woman with a gift for snarky comments.
That said let me also say that over the course of my life I've determined that it's only a person well in touch with their feminine aspect who're capable of such.....witticisms. It has nothing to do with the sex of the person, though being female seems to assist in their snarky development. Certainly Lady Tori of the Amos clan appears to be such a person.
Snark usually is thrown by a person who has been deeply hurt in some personal fashion; and who has retreated behind an intelligent shield all while wielding a sharp blade of observational wit for protection.
Such a person can be beautiful and attractive (to some), but warning. You get close to such a person you'll have to accept that you're gonna get cut. It's just an aspect of who they are; and they're just protecting the hopeful child that lays at their core.
Highlow
American Net'Zen
I always find it odd that people find Kate & Tori similar. ... I don't have any kind words for Tori's work ...
That would seem to explain why you find it odd.
Tori Amos polarizes people into love or hate camps but my God she is one of the most distinctive performers in pop music. She reminds a bit of Kate Bush but Tori's more unusual. When she's off, she's cringe-worthy. When she's good, she's amazing...like with this one.
I always find it odd that people find Kate & Tori similar. They are women who play the piano and have high vocal ranges. The end.
Kate is an extraordinary musical genius, David Bowie-like eccentric. She's more prog rock than singer/songwriter, Tori is more singer/songwriter. I don't have any kind words for Tori's work so I'll leave it at that.
Tori Amos polarizes people into love or hate camps but my God she is one of the most distinctive performers in pop music. She reminds a bit of Kate Bush but Tori's more unusual. When she's off, she's cringe-worthy. When she's good, she's amazing...like with this one.
Balanced review; well said. I agree with you, entirely.
but what the ache "olzeeJyeerz" mean?
—> 4 maxPerhaps you should include her WHOLE catalog....
I keep asking the same and never seem to be rewarded..... all of it is soooo godaweful
user4176 wrote:
To date, at least 758 people seem to disagree.
To date, at least 758 people seem to disagree.
Disney solo princess song,,,,, i was thinking the same its the mermaid bit lol 🏰
ooh her voice it hurts my ears and i`m not joking.
Tori Amos polarizes people into love or hate camps but my God she is one of the most distinctive performers in pop music. She reminds a bit of Kate Bush but Tori's more unusual. When she's off, she's cringe-worthy. When she's good, she's amazing...like with this one.
And your point is. . . .
I have tried, oh so many times
If you like it, cool
I hear that! I've tried for more than 20 years and I still don't get it.
Hahahahahahaaaaaa.....!!!!!
Right.
Cilantro es cantante,
Cilantro es muy famoso,
Cilantro es el hombre con el queso del diablo.
Same here.
And of course "take" doesn't translate (at least in my case) to "like" ... it just doesn't make me want to run for the dial or PSD button.
I have tried, oh so many times
If you like it, cool
In this case, even Disney solo princess songs are ashamed of this corniness.
This song is good for the ears...
Ha ha! That's funny!
Gryn wrote:
My wife and I saw her in Warsaw in 2009 and were blown away by her talent and showmanship. A truly great performer. The audience here was more mixed, and I wasn't the only gray-haired guy there.
The lead-in piano music sounds a bit like the Twilight Zone Theme song they just played two songs ago.
Love that line.
So you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts
What's so amazing about really deep thoughts?
Heh, I thought you were so excited you only photographed half of her, until I realized there was a scroll bar on your post!
calypsus_1 wrote:
Tower theater, Upper Darby PA
i was so excited to finally photograph her my hands were shaking
Just FYI, that's neither his photograph, nor his words.
Well said............Please make it stop Bill
Heh, I thought you were so excited you only photographed half of her, until I realized there was a scroll bar on your post!
calypsus_1 wrote:
Tower theater, Upper Darby PA
i was so excited to finally photograph her my hands were shaking
Tori Amos5 by ~madelynF
©2008-2010 ~madelynF
Tower theater, Upper Darby PA
i was so excited to finally photograph her my hands were shaking
one word: GENUIS
I don't think"GENUIS" is a word, at least not an English one.
Yes, I love Cilantro and hate Tori Amos too!
Alot of people ask me about this song <Silent All These Years>. And um, what I try and explain to them is uh, I was writing it for somebody else actually. Because I was trying to get some of my songs placed with people, I wrote something for Cher. And uh, it got turned down, of course, and then I wrote something for Tina Turner....So finally I needed to like get work. I decided, wow, I met this new person who was really nice to me because um he looked at me and said "You've never had good wine." And I went, "Oh my god! How do you know!" And he was just like, "I can just tell. It like oozes from you, you just don't know it." And I went, "Oh." You know what I mean, you just go..it gets a little nerve-racking. You don't know what you're doing wrong. And so, Al Stewart, um you know (plays a short tune on the piano) took me to a restaurant and showed me wine like I'd never seen wine before. And so I wanted to write a song for him. And I started to do this thing. And I went to Eric, who I was with and who partly produced Little Earthquakes, and he didn't produce this bit so he was totally objective. And he looked at me and said, "You're out of your mind. That's your life story." And I went, "Oh." So needlesstoay, Al Stewart didn't get that song." (Begins playing song)
— Tori; VH1 Storytellers
"With this record, a song like Silent All These Years has a certain story line going on musically that's really the antithesis of what's going on verbally. It's counterpoint, pure and simple. But instead of French horns and cellos or something, it's words and music. And I find it very exciting when an acoustic instrument has its knife out. It can take on these different roles. The idea of being a woman ... you come over to my house and I'm serving a fruit plate. That's not always going to happen. Especially if somebody isn't being polite, or if somebody's being a dick. Then I'm going to put the peelings on the floor and watch you trip, and giggle. And that's the same with the acoustic instrument. It's not always just about, 'I'm vulnerable, I'm sad.' There are many different sides, and the beauty comes in exploring them."
— Tori; interview by Greg Rule
"So um, i never liked my grandmother. she was pretty me—she was actually very mean person. not all grandmothers are nice, you know pllbtt.. so um, the town where she comes from - it's really makes kinda sense that she wouldn't play, she wouldn't be into this anyway, but they wouldn't play this song. they said it, they quoted, they said...it's shit. so it gives me great pleasure to always play this song as much as I possibly can. thank you."
— Tori; Festival du Jazz de Montreux 1992
"Some things haven't changed, which is my relationship with my grandmother. she's on the 'other side'...hi grandma!. we didn't get on very well - i hated her. the interesting thing about my grandmother is uh...she loved virgins. now you know the thing is that if that's your choice, i totally respect that. and that was my choice...for a while. and uh..but i knew that there was something else in store — i was six. so she and i just didn't work this one out very well. you know, she'd see a picture of Jim Morrison and it just...she didn't get it. so um...naturally i was sent to pray in the corner. i said all the psalms and all...the whole thing. and i'd spit in her jello when she wasn't looking. and so this went on and on and on. and she died. long time ago. now i got a letter this year. one letter from a town. they all got together - true! - in America! - "Land of the free". and they wrote me a letter. now they don't know that my grandmother's from there. made no mention of it. and they can't possibly know that she was born there. anyway, it just went "nininini" (to the tune of Twilight Zone) - It makes total sense. 'Dear Miss Amos we're very sorry we can't play this song in our town. But in our opinion, it is shit.' —- Actually "perfect"!, you know...so there you go."
— Tori; Toronto, Canada 1993, l'affaire d'amoreuse bootleg
"The bumble bee piano tinkle came first. This one evolved slowly but it stayed an obsession until it was finished. I entered boxer occupation - part of me not wanting to hear what 'I' was saying, the other part fighting off 'The Brain Drain.' I finally distracted The brain Drain with the task of filing chocolate cake recipes."
— Tori; Little Earthquakes Songbook
There's no denying this is a superb album...even if you are not a Tori fan.
Oh, yes you can deny it...feh.
My friends never got her music, either, or my fascination with it, but, to me, this album was just as important as Nevermind, Ten, Fumbling Towards Ecstacy, and the other great albums that came out during my college years.
Also a big fan of this album. The music was gorgeous. But to say she went off the lyrical deep end years ago would imply she was ever anywhere else. The obscurity and constant pronoun switching is interesting, but I can't take seriously mixing of random objects, jarring adjectives, cryptic metaphors, pagan gods, this or that numb or bleeding thing, etc. Leaves me not knowing what planet I'm on.
My friends never got her music, either, or my fascination with it, but, to me, this album was just as important as Nevermind, Ten, Fumbling Towards Ecstacy, and the other great albums that came out during my college years.
one word: GENUIS
I second, third, and fourth that. The one and only Tori. :)
one word: GENIUS
EXACTLY... this exactly how she strikes me. That being said, ya gotta love that line...
Boy, you best pray that I bleed real soon
That, and I always loved the vague-ness of "I can't believe you're leaving 'cause me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream". I always figured that was either serious disbelief or a crazy-eyed threat. Funnier to conflate the two. Seriously, I loved this whole album, with "Tear in Your Hand" the very most (when she hits the piano pedal in the tacet it ALWAYS raises goosebumps for me for some reason). Edit: I think my subconcious mind was trying to hint to me that I had that lyric mixed... the ice cream thing is in Tear in Your Hand.
mandolin wrote:
...honestly, i can't stand her live performances - her stage mannerisms creep me out and make everything come across disingenuous...
But that's what I think of most of her stuff
There's no denying this is a superb album...even if you are not a Tori fan.
No one who saw Tori play live in the '90s could argue about her amazing musicianship, showwomanship, and talent.
Living in a god forsaken place, Tori only played here for the first time last year. Brilliant performer!
In every sense of the number...
...honestly, i can't stand her live performances - her stage mannerisms creep me out and make everything come across disingenuous...
lol