Tori Amos

[fox69]

Spring Haze

Spring Haze


Well I know it's just a spring haze
But I don't much like the look of it
And if omens are a god send
Like men breezing in
Certain these clouds go somewhere
Billowing outto somewhere
A single engine Cessna
You say we'll never make it there
All we do is circle it
Uh oh. Let go. Off on my way
Unsee this eternal wanting.
Let go
Way to go
So I get creamed
Waiting on Sunday to drown
Waiting on Sunday to drown
And I know it's just a spring haze
But I don't much like the look of it
But all we do is circle it
And I found out where my edge is
Ad it bleeds into where you resist
And my only way out
Is to go so far in
Billowing out to somewhere
Billowing out luna riviera
Waiting on Sunday to land
Waitng on Sunday to drown
Why, does, it, always end up like this
Waiting on Sunday
So I get creamed
Waiting for Sunday to drown

 

[fox69]

Star Whisperer

Star Whisperer


Lost Star Whisperer
Where, where, where have you gone?
Lost Star Whisperer
Where your Cloud Ride has come
Why, oh why have you locked up your sky?
Night in the sky
Whisper me back to life

Night warns of an Eastern threat
North calls reinforcements from the West
Lost all reason guarded by the waves
Sing to life the Seven Lords of Time

Lost Star Whisperer
Send for your Cloud Riders to come
Why, oh why have you locked up your sky?
Night sky
Whisper me back to life
Then I heard you scream
From the other side of the mountain
I saw a you I didn't want to see
I heard you scream
From the other side of the mountain

Then I heard you scream
From the other side of the mountain
You saw a me I didn't want to see
I heard you scream
From the other side of the mountain

Lost Star Whisperer
Where, where, where have you gone?
Forged out
Fire and Song
You, you worn
Eight shadows long
Why, oh why
Have you locked up your sky?
Night sky
Whisper me back to life

 

[fox69]

Starling

Starling


Starling you were right I am the jealous kind
Whoever would have guessed
Starling now I am shut out and confined
Even within my nest

What, what does it take to make it through another day
If a feather lined with his words becomes a blade

Starling when he screams he screams in black and white
Just like the magpie
Shattered night then I woke
Not to a lonely lark but to a raven's cry

If a feather lined with his words becomes a blade
Then what, what will it take to make it through another day

So when they play, play the song
Sing along
It may be your turn to shine
If you know the lines
Hey what's that you say
"You can find, find him online
Most of the time these days"
"Is that right," I say.

You were right Starling

 

[fox69]

Stay Awake

Stay Awake


I sing this to my little one
it's time to go to sleep
its time to go to sleep now
stay awake
don't rest your head
don't lie down upon your bed
while the moon drifts in the sky
stay awake
don't close your eyes
stay awake
don't close your eyes

 

[fox69]

Strange

Strange


Strange
Thought I knew you well
Thought I had read the sky
Thought I had read a change in your eyes
So strange
Woke up to a world
That I am not a part of
Except when I can play it's stranger

After all
What were you really looking for
And I wonder when will I learn
Blue isn't red
Everybody knows this

[Chorus]
And I wonder when will I learn
When will I learn
Guess I was in
Deeper than I thought I was
If I have enough love for the both of us

"Just stay"
You said "We'll build a nest"
So I left my life
Tried on your friends
Tried on your opinions
So when the bridges froze
And you did not come home
I put our snowflake under the microscope

After all
What was I really looking for
And I wonder
When will I learn
Maybe my wish
Knew better than I did

[Chorus]

So strange
Now I'm finally in
The party has begun
It's not like I can feel you still
But strange
What I will leave behind
You can call me one more time
But now I must be leaving

 

[fox69]

Strange Fruit

Strange Fruit


Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop

 

[fox69]

Strange Little Girl

Strange Little Girl


One day you see a strange little girl look at you
One day you see a strange little girl feeling blue

She'd run to the town one day
Leaving home and the country fair
Just beware
When you're there
Strange little girl

She didn't know how to live in a town that was rough
It didn't take long before she knew she had enough
Walking home in her wrapped up world
She survived but she's feeling old
And she found all things cold

Strange little girl
Where are you going?
Strange little girl
Where are you going?
Do you know where you could be going?

Walking home in her wrapped up world
She survived but she's feeling old
Cause she found all things cold

Strange little girl
Where are you going?
Do you know where you could be going?

 

[fox69]

Strong Black Vine

Strong Black Vine


Nobody knows my Cherokee origins
I never speak about this
My Cherokee grandma told me
The love for the earth just gives good fruits
And the vine is the plant of genus vitis
As the grape plants
She said "take a vine
And drink so much wine
Remember if red it's mine
You know just drunk I'm fine

Take a strong black vine
And you'll drink good red wine
The sun is big and yellow
While I'm drinking my good brunello
She said "take a vine
And drink so much wine
Remember if red it's mine
You know just drunk I'm fine
Thank you strong black vine
Under you I sing time, time, time"

Someone thinks the last rhymes have not a logic sense
I'd like to see you
After you've drunk all the wine in an evening
Like my friend Albano
Living in Cellino San Marco,
He has a such strong black vine

Take a strong black vine
Just drunk I'm fine
You have to say girls
Just drunk you'll be fine
So drunk
So drunk

 

[fox69]

Suede

Suede


Suede you always felt like suede
There are days I feel your twin
Peekaboo hiding underneath your skin
Jets. are revving yes revving
And this. Has power over me.
Not because you feel something
Or don't feel something for me
But because. Mass. So big.
It can swallow swallow her whole star intact.
Call me 'evil' call me
'Tide is on your side' anything that you want.
Anybody knows you can conjure anything
By the dark side of the moon. Boy.
And if you keep your silence silencer on
You'll talk yourself right into a job.
Out of a hole into my bayou
I'm sure that you've been briefed my
Apsorption lines. They are frayed and I fear.
My fear is greater than my faith
But I walk. The missionary way.
You always felt like suede
There are days I am your twin
Peekaboo hiding underneath your skin
Jets. Are revving. Yes revving from
An ether twist.
Call me 'evil' little sister. I guess
I'd do the same. Little sister.
You'll forgive me one day.

 

[fox69]

Sugar

Sugar


Don't say morning's come
Don't say it's up to me
If I could take twenty five minutes
Out of the record books
Sugar, he brings me Sugar

Bobby's collecting bees
And hammers, he used one on me
Cold war with little boys
Get in with a bubble gum trade and

Sugar, bring me Sugar
And all the robins bring, bring me many things but
Sugar, he brings me Sugar
As far as I can tell
I've been gone for miles now

You know, and I know I don't know me very well
And I know, and you know if they found me out
Sugar, he brings me Sugar
I know the robins bring, they bring me many things
But Sugar, he brings me Sugar