Tori Amos

[fox69]

Upside Down

Upside Down


God I love to turn my little blue world upside down
God I love to turn my little blue world upside down
Inside my head the noise
Chatter chatter chatter chatter chatter
You see I'm afraid I'll always be
Still coming out of my mother
Upside down

Don't you love to turn this little blue girl upside down?
I know you love to turn this little blue girl baby upside down
But my heart it says you've been
Shatter shatter shatter shatter shattered
And I know you're still a boy
Still coming out of your mother

But when you gonna stand on your own?
I say the world is sick
You say, 'tell me what that makes us darlin'
You see you always find my faults
Faster than you find your own
You say the world is getting rid of her demons
I say 'baby what have you been smokin'
Well I dreamed I dreamed I dreamed
I loved a black boy
My daddy would scream

Don't you love to turn this little blue girl upside down?
Any kind of touch I think is better than none
Even upside down
But you see I'm tangled up
Got a kitten kitten kitten in my hair
Cincinnati - I like the word
It's the only thing we can't seem
To turn upside down

Well I found the secret to life
I found the secret to life
I'm okay when everything is not okay

Don't we love to turn our little blue world upside down?
Don't we love to turn our little blue world baby upside down?
Inside my head a voice
Chatter chatter chatter chatter chatter
And it says 'girl you're all the same
Still comin' out of your mother
Still comin' out of your mother
Upside down'

 

[fox69]

Velvet Revolution

Velvet Revolution


Feeling radical in cotton
Purified in my satin
But the bomb of the season
Is a Velvet Revolution

I look at the sky
And feel the tears of the Prophets crying
I look at the sky
And feel the rain, the rain of tears

Feeling radical in cotton
Purified in my satin
But the bomb of the season
Is a Velvet Revolution

All you killers of the children
There's a new Commandment
The true Divine Creator wants a
Velvet Revolution

All you killers of the children
There's a new Commandment
The true Divine Creator wants a
Velvet Revolution

 

[fox69]

Virginia

Virginia


In the lush Virginia hills
They kept her as long as they could
Cause they knew when the white brother
Found white shell beads
Wrapped around her skin --
A life giving river --
Her body open as will his hand
And with a "goodbye" there she goes

She may betray all that she loves
And even wait for their savior to come
And in some things, maybe he'll be right
But as always the thing that he loves
He will change from her sunrise to clockwise to soul trading
Still she'll lay down her body
Covering him all the same

So hundreds of years go by
(the red road carved up by sharp knife)
She's a girl out working her trade
And she loses a little each day
To ghetto pimps and presidents
Who try and arouse her turquoise serpents
She can't recall what they represent
And when you ask, she won't know

She will betray

Oh Virginia
Do you remember
When the land held your hand
Oh Virginia
She will let you back in
Oh Virginia
You can't remember your name

 

[fox69]

Walk To Dublin (Sucker Reprise)

Walk To Dublin (Sucker Reprise)


If I walk to Dublin
'Cause my feet all got a sole but I sure don't
I've got a girl in my pocketbook
And some proverb is gonna take it, take it there

Books and killing and something's happening
I'm property of my family
And Gideon told me where to go
I'm gonna sure break down your father's alter and meal

Do a jig, do a jig, do a jig
Do a jig, do a jig, do a jig, do a jig

If I walk to Dublin
I'm gonna pass that Turquoise Lady in her new white
Nike flats and something's flat
I said, I need size 10,000 for my ass, yes

Do a jig, do a jig, make 'em laugh
Do a jig, do a jig, hey, make 'em laugh

'Cause he won't be coming back
Said, he won't be coming back

If I make the golden host
And the Lord needs men, he needs good men
The Lord needs U.S. Marines
I said, I got her numbers in my shear machine
I got me an electric shear machines

Do a jig, do a jig, do a jig
Let me plague myself with the west in his head
I said, do a jig, make 'em laugh, make 'em laugh
Make 'em laugh, just make him laugh

'Cause he won't be coming back
Yes

'Cause he won't be coming back
Said, he won't be coming back
Got it

The drinking test is p-p-puzzling
The drinking test is puzzling, Marcel
For those that laughed are described both as drinking as a dog
Drinking as a dog-phase, they say was misplaced
We wonder whether the Lord chose a few good men
Whether the Lord chose the U.S. Marines

 

[fox69]

Walking With You

Walking With You


Every night I sit alone
Waiting to see you at my door
Arriving at the usual time
Waiting to share your love with mine

Well I've waited a lifetime just to find you
But you have to believe it's success that were seeking
Then in a few months you can come home to me

It's the job that you need
It's the school that you have to complete
You just have to go on with your days

But I'll be waiting right here as I am
But before you leave make me a promise I'll need you to keep

Remember me while you're away
Think of me when you're alone
In everything that I do
I do it in two's
'Cause I'll always be walking with you
'Cause I'll always be walking with you (side by side)
Always be walking with you (in my mind)

Always be walking with you (always be walking)
With you

Facing another empty evening
Lying alone here in my bed
You keep my mind from my job
But you lead my life with love

You hold my chin up high
You're love shines through my eyes
Your soul walks by my side
Keeping this body alive

As I run to catch the bus
I get a strange look or two
'Cause instead of just buying a ticket for me
I also buy a ticket for you
Now some people say I'm crazy
But It's the only way not to be blue
In everything that I do
I do it in twos
'Cause I'll always be walking with you
Always be (x4)
I'll always be walking with you

Remember me while you're away
Think of me when you're alone
In everything that I do
I do it in two's
'Cause I'll always be walking with you
'Cause I'll always be walking with you (side by side)
Always be walking with you (in my mind)

 

[fox69]

Wampum Prayer

Wampum Prayer


In our hand
An old old old thread
Trail of Blood
And amens
Greed is the gift
For the sons
Of the songs
Hear this prayer
Of the wampum
This is the tie
That will bind us

 

[fox69]

Way Down

Way Down


Maybe I'm the afterglow
Cause I'm with a band you know
Don't you hear the laughter on the way down

Yes I am the anchorman
Dining here with Son of Sam
Hear too much to chatter on the way down

Gonna meet a great, big star
Gonna drive his great,big car
Gonna have it all here on the way down

Way down
Way down
Way down
She knows
Way down
Way down
Way down
She knows

 

[fox69]

Weatherman

Weatherman


He is not a weatherman
But his bride lies with the land
And she will whisper to him
I'll be dressing up in snow
Cloaked in echo it's almost
As if only Nature knows
How to bring his wife to life
And breathe her into form

"one more look from her eyes
One more look can you paint her back to life"

He knows every moor and mound
Every curve of every hill
A shoulder of the mountain
Where they watched a thousand dawns

"one more look from her eyes
One more look can you paint her back to life"

Rising she stirs
First it blurs
A breeze that lifts
Lilac blossoms from the earth
Blending it's shape
To a skirt
With limbs that bend
He's drawn toward her pirouette turn
Autumn's peach black
Winter's velvet coat
Pink Tourmaline,
Palette of Spring
In Summer she's wrapped in Viennese green

He is not a weatherman
But his bride lies with the land
And she will whisper to him
I'll be dressing up in snow
Cloaked in echo it's almost
As if only Nature knows
How to paint his wife to life
With every season's tone

"one more look from her eyes
One more look can you paint her back to life"

 

[fox69]

Wedding Day

Wedding Day


The deafening sound of silence
Silence the siren between us

Now I drink back the past
Back to our wedding day
We'd hang onto every
Word the other would say

Blanket on bluebell knoll
Under a starry night holding us close
As jupiter winked at the earth
On that our wedding day

I run back to your arms again
Back there safe in your arms again

Your thoughts safely were shared
My secrets to you I gave
I swore angels were born
You said heaven can be made

Above us on bluebell knoll
The laughing seven maids chased by the bull
As Virgo she danced through the dawn
On that our wedding day

The deafening sound of silence
Silence the siren between us

I run back to your arms again
Back there safe in your arms again

Now I take off the mask
That hides all this from your gaze
As you sleep I pretend you dream
Of our wedding day

 

[fox69]

Welcome To England

Welcome To England


Do a dance for me
Baby it is ?
Don't want ?
Let the liquid take off what you won't or (your on)

You've been down before
Boy and I like this
I'm in quicksand
I am sinking fast

Perfect, heal it
Because your other half has got himself
A devil's excess or Access

Welcome to England, he said
Welcome to my World

You better bring your own sun, sweet girl
You gotta bring your own sun
Don't you forget your
Bring your own sun
Just enough for everyone

Heels on, go on
Bang a or(men can) tango but do not get tangled
Who can stay strong
When they only give us lies to lean on

When your heart explodes
Is it deathly cold
You must let the colors violate the
Blackness or (Blankness), the rest
A magic world in parallel
So leave your daily hell

Welcome to England, he said
Welcome to my World

It's not a question, if I care (or can)
Fight by your side
And we'll stand (or and withstand)
Anything but
But I forgot
That you said, girl
If you come

You better bring your own sun, sweet girl
You gotta bring your own sun
Don't you forget yours
Bring your own sun
Just enough for everyone

Welcome to England