Tori Amos

[fox69]

Angels

Angels


With a wink
And a smile
You toss your instructions on
How to catch a train
While it's moving
You always were the one
That kept us all guessing
How you could survive
The fall you had

from medicine men
To my DJ friends
They all have said
"He's got to watch his back"

they're trapping angels
By the Potomac
But it's not how you think
You'd be surprised
They liberate
Your dreamscape
Till you can't remember
To recall
Where your wings
Have gone
Tell me where they've gone

From Jordan to Chicago
Another child is born
Trusting that we'll get it
Right this time
I should've worn my glasses
You said just to trust
Then you chose
To sign the dotted line

From modern Magdalenes
To my DJ friends
They all have said
"He's got to watch his back"

They're trapping angels
By the Potomac
But it's not how you think
You'd be surprised
They liberate
Your dreamscape
Till you can't remember
To recall
Where your wings
Have gone

Before I close my eyes at night
I can still see you smilin'
Before the truth was
Buried alive
Did we prize it
Before you change the world
Maybe boy you should change
Your girl

They're trapping angels
By the Potomac
They're trapping angels
Lord I know this
They're trapping angels
By the Potomac
But we're getting closer
I said we're getting closer
To where they've gone
Tell me where they've gone

Now it won't be long

 

[fox69]

Angie

Angie


Angie, Angie
When will those clouds all disappear?
Angie, Angie
Where will it lead us from here?
With no lovin' in our soul and no money in our coats
You can't say we're satisfied
But Angie, Angie
You can't say we never tried

Angie, you're beautiful
But I hate that sadness in your eyes
Angie, I still love you baby
Remember all those nights we cried
All the dreams were held so close
Seemed to all go up in smoke
Let me whisper in your ear
Angie, Angie
Where will it lead us from here? Yeah

All the dreams we held so close
Seemed to all go up in smoke
Hate that sadness in your eyes
But Angie, I still love you baby
Everywhere I look I see your eyes
There ain't a woman that comes close to you
Come on baby dry your eyes
But Angie, Angie
Ain't it good to be alive
Angie, Angie, you can't say we never tried

 

[fox69]

Another Girl's Paradise

Another Girl's Paradise


You caught me lingering
In another girl's paradise
The way she paints the world --
I want that in my life emeralds,
You should know,
Are renting in her meadow
With a stroke beauty lives
How could i resist you are desire
When it all is said said and done
Who can love you and still be standing
There's mary calling up a storm
Can i take from you and not keep taking
Naked as day Gemma follows him
Does it all come down
To the thing one girl fears in the night
Is another girl's paradise
Through twists and turns
Jasmine foxed me in her grove
Arms filled with honey-bells,
St michaels sanford bloods
"you have come to discover what you want"
What i want is not to want what isn't mine
"but i am desire" when it all is said and done.
Is another girl
Is another girl
Is another girl's paradise

 

[fox69]

Apollo's Frock

Apollo's Frock


Put me back in the cold
I'm going to Antarctica
It feels like these days,
Our old meeting place,
In an LA cafe
Or on the Serengeti,
The hunt has not Begun.
Cause I am tired of you taking from me
And I have let you eat from the fruits of my tree
I am not the one to turn into a Laurel wreath
For the last time you have crossed my line

You could never see
You could never see
Apollo's frock
Was always as beautiful
Always as beautiful as
The saddest rainstorm
Apollo your frock
Was always as beautiful
Always as beautiful
As your sister's
That your light shined on

How can you think you've won
When there can be no winners
The soul has been lost
Of the bow and quiver
Do you remember
Well I remember
Amid the clashing of swords
I'm losing you in my rear view
And I have called the Shekhina in
And the ninefold and a few other friends
You and your predators were warned
If the cubs were drawn in
For the last time you would officially
Cross my line

You could never see
Never see
Apollo's frock

 

[fox69]

Assholes Are Cheap Today (live)

Assholes Are Cheap Today (live)


Assholes are cheap today (assholes are cheap today).
Cheaper than yesterday (cheaper than yesterday).
Small ones are a half a crown (small ones are a half a crown).
Sitting up or lying down (sitting up or lying down).

 

[fox69]

Bachelorette

Bachelorette


Bachelorette you climb on rooftops and you bachelorette
You can turn dust into champagne
You even remembered his name

Bachelorette, the braves you painted pink for bachelorettes
You tried to show him that he can
But you can never rush a man

You must remember
You're a car girl
You're a star girl
You are at the door
The tide will turn
There's a window

Bachelorette the things you do girls
To your bachelorettes...
You thought that...

You must remember
You're a car girl
You're a star girl
You are at the door
The tide will turn
There's a window

Bachelorette, you fly alone now and you cry sometimes
There's nothing like it in the world
You'll go to Paris on your own
Just bachelorette you climb on rooftops and you bachelorette
You can turn dust into champagne
You even yidiedididi...

 

[fox69]

Bad Company (live)

Bad Company (live)


Company always on the run.
Destiny to-na the rising sun, oh, eh.
I was born six-gun in my hand.
Behind a gun i'll make my final stand.
It's why they call me bad company, i can't deny, ye he-ye,
Bad company till the day i die... he.

Rebel souls, deserters we are called,
Chose a gun and threw away the sun, yes, and,
And now these towns, we all know your names.
Six-gun sound is my claim to fame, yes, yea.
It's why they call me bad company, i can't deny, he-heh, yea, you will,
Bad company till the day I... die...


Just like you said to me, you know, the snow, it melts,
Just like you said to me, to you, who hee, yea,
Only could, said, if I only could...

 

[fox69]

Baltimore

Baltimore


[recorded as Ellen Amos]

It's so nice to live here
I'm glad this is my home
I've got a homestead on Baltimore Street
It's someplace to call my own

It's all kinds of people
Familiar places, smiling faces
I'm proud to say I'm a Baltimorian
But the 'Birds' are the best
The best of Baltimore

We like it here in Baltimore
There's so much love in Baltimore
Working hand in hand
To make this place a better land
In Baltimore
Love is what you'll find
So stop and take the time
I've got Oriole Baseball on my mind

We like it here in Baltimore
There's so much love in Baltimore
Working hand in hand
To make this place a better land
In Baltimore
Love is what you'll find
So stop and take the time
To enjoy the brotherhood of Baltimore

The sun sets across the bay
I'm glad I spend my day
In a working American city
With all the people who make it that way
It's time to jump in a taxi
For Thirty-third Street
Knowing I'll be watching those 'Birds' go,
Watching Weaver's Show

We like it here in Baltimore
There's so much love in Baltimore
Working hand in hand
To make this place a better land
In Baltimore
Love is what you'll find
So stop and take the time
I've got Oriole Baseball on my mind
On my mind in Baltimore

 

[fox69]

Barons Of Suburbia

Barons Of Suburbia


Barons of suburbia take another piece of my good graces
I'm in my war you're in yours
Do we fight for peace as they take another piece of us
But baby I would let your darkness invade me
You could maybe turn this white light into navy
Before you leave

It was a slight miscalculation that my friends
My friends would be waiting on the other side of the bridge
On the other side of this
This mole hill of a mountain
This potion now a poison
They're on the other side of right
We're on the other side of her midnight

When it's all said and done we will lose a piece
To a carnivorous vegetarian
Barons of suburbia I have heard you pray
Before you devour her
So baby will you let my darkness invade you
You always liked your wafer sweet in the middle
Before you leave

It was a slight miscalculation that our friends
Our friends would be waiting on the other side of the bridge
On the other side of this
This mole hill of a mountain
This potion now a poison
They're on the other side of right
We're on the other side of her midnight

I am piecing a potion
To combat your poison

She is risen
She is risen
Boys
I said she is risen

 

[fox69]

Battle Of Trees

Battle Of Trees


Our language of love
The Battle of Trees
We fought side by side
No one had more

Sharper consonants than you, love
And my vowels, well, were trusted

First comes the Birch
Rowan followed by the Ash
Then through the Alder she forms
And merges with Willow

The Hawthorne blossoms
As the Oak guards the door
She is the hinge on which the year swings
He courts the lightning flash and her

Summoning the spirits
Through incantations
You said the Thunder God seems to have
And our enemies are the Reed
But we knew the Furies held the Holly sacred

We were insulated
In a circle of words we'd drawn
With wisdom sent from nine Hazels
A Rowan fire and a Willow rod

At ten comes the vine
That generates bramble wine
The constant change of the night sun
A song in the blood of the white bull

Our language of love
The Battle of Trees
We fought side by side
No one had more

Sharper consonants than you, love
And my vowels, well, were trusted

From Ivy leaves is an ale that can unveil
The hidden meanings and serpents
Only revealed through visions
Yes vowels could insert
"A" was for the Silver Fir

The Firs of course
Then came next
With Heather at her most
Passionate

The White Poplar's gift to the souls of the dead
A promise that it was not the end
But for the vine the "U", its coffer

Vowels and consonants
The power of trees
The power they hold
The power of prose

So when the church
Began to twist the old myths
They built their own Tower of Babel
From Ulster to Munster

The Reed gave way then
To the Elder
The Earth turns her will
So that night follows day

From dawn to dawn
From Winter to Winter
At day the Ash had power over the Alder

Our language of love
The Battle of Trees
We fought side by side
Then he said to me:
"I've dodged bullets and even poisoned arrows
Only to be foiled by the blade of a vowel"