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Tori Amos – '97 Bonnie and Clyde (Eminem cover) Lyrics	17 years ago
I just have to relate an experience - you all think this song is creepy when you hear it come up on your cd, but picture this: I was recently on an airplane, and I put on my ipod to relax and snooze. I woke up, startled and freaked out by the creepish whispering in my ears, and was totally shocked at being woken by this song. Super duper creepy cubed...

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Tori Amos – Winter Lyrics	17 years ago
I agree with the life passage and father-daughter relationship comments. This is my favorite Tori song, too, so beautiful. I think this is one of the most powerful uses of metaphor I've ever encountered, bar none. The way the winter/seasons of life metaphor is woven throughout the song is so perfect.

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Tori Amos – Precious Things Lyrics

17 years ago

I actually agree with zipperwhipped on the music industry thing, as well as with MaggieMichelle about how it's also about more personal experiences growing up. I think it's about both, as with so many Tori songs, having more than one layer. I definitely see the music industry stuff in there, along with a metaphor comparing all that to high school relationships and rejections - this song reminds me of all the times in my adult life that I've suddenly realized that a lot of people never really leave behind the clique-y attitudes from high school, and that workplaces and adult social settings still revert back to the same backstabbing gossipy superficial drama. I think this is the sort of sentiment Tori is bringing out in this song, using her experiences in early days in the music industry and comparing them to high school social attitudes.

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Tori Amos – Almost Rosey Lyrics

17 years ago

I think this is an anti-war song, espcially because it is credited to Isabel, who is the journalist and "watcher" of the posse. I think the song is a comment on the current administration and the message that everything is going "as planned" in Iraq, the idea that the establishment is trying to pull the wool over the people's eyes and asking everyone to put on "rose coloured glasses" and "not worry" because everything will be almost fine. I think it's about the faceless interactions we have every day "why do they say have a nice day when we both know they wouldn't mind if I died", i.e. we talk to so many people on a daily basis without ever really knowing anyone, just perpetuating this myth that everything is rosey - "how are you, I'm fine, have a nice day, you too, etc.".

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Tori Amos – Secret Spell Lyrics	17 years ago
I think this song is about resiliency - being able to turn around like an eighteen wheeler and go another direction - that metaphor says it all for me, "eighteen wheels in a high heel".

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Tori Amos – Programmable Soda Lyrics	17 years ago
I think this song is about the kind of girl who changes her own attitudes and ideas to suit what she thinks a man wants to hear, because she is afraid that she'll lose him to another woman if she doesn't do so.

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Tori Amos – Father's Son Lyrics	17 years ago
This song is about the war in Iraq and the war on terror in general, about a war in which each side is supposedly motivated by religious conviction, (God vs God), and the fact that hate and fear and prejudice is taught anew to each generation.

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Tori Amos – Posse Bonus Lyrics

17 years ago

She has talked a lot in interviews regarding the release of ADP about the idea that the right wing in America today is using the people and how the establishment feeds people false ideas, and that the best way to combat that is to have your own belief system and alternative values strongly defined. This song is light and playful and seems innocuous, but it's really the defining meaning of the whole ADP album in one song - it's the posse's message - burrow your way to freedom through the BS that is being fed us through the media and politics, feed your head (be smart, find out the truth for yourself, inform yourself), "mind your doubts, they harvst them" - this means to be careful because right wing fanatics will literally harvest your doubts in order to plant hate or fear in your mind, playing on your doubts. I also think the blatant reference to Laura is amusing.

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Tori Amos – Digital Ghost Lyrics	17 years ago
When I first heard this song, I thought it was literally written to her piano. She does quirky things like that, and has been oft quoted as seeing her songs and her pianos as living beings. I think this could be about one of her old beloved Bosendorfer, curled up in a studio with new electronic instruments and keyboards and computers.

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Tori Amos – Code Red Lyrics

17 years ago

I think this is about her experiences in the music industry, particularly about the difficulties she had at Atlantic. A lot of these lyrics seem to refer to a headspace in which the artist is tempted to "do this last one and then I'll grow me some wine", i.e. to complete the required recordings for a contract and then retire to something personal and relaxing (a vineyard metaphor here - she did find her home in Cornwall and gardening there therapeutic and freeing). There is a lot of imagery here about being used, things being "stolen" that she would have given freely - i.e. her talent, her art, etc. All the lyrics about cashing out, about knowing all the people and players in the game, about doing it long enough to know.

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