| Tori Amos – Blood Roses Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think of the blood roses lyric as a reference to a "latin" dancer who throws them to the ground. I think of a beautiful dancer throwing the blood colored, red roses to the ground as she dances. Back on the street. They came from dirt after-all, spent some beautiful time in a vase, even were props for a dance, but then back to the streets. Roses have short lives. Maybe she sees them as a good analogy for the beauty in our youth. Gave him your warm little diamond must be the vagina. Apart from the lyrics, I'm impressed with how difficult this song is to sing. This song seems to be about how we have highs and lows in our life. Sometimes we're the chickens, sometimes we're at a the food court eating Chick Filet. This is kind of like, what goes around....chickens get a taste of your meat. Back on the streets. Even the regretting of sex.....She enjoyed the sex but then felt bad about it later and needed to shave, cleanse herself.....like Catholic guilt....is she Catholic? "The Belle of New Orleans showed me how to tango." Sounds like a lesbian relationship where she wrapped her legs around her like roses climbing a vine. She wrapped around the girl's feet, not her legs, implying it was dirty, and didn't go far. Good little roses, didn't try to climb too high. There are so many layers to this song. Tango dancing is submissive for the female I imagine, if they follow the male, the song is about times when we submit. |
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| Sting – Island Of Souls Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It's about the yearning many have for a more spiritual life and how sometimes our work takes us in an opposite direction. The shipbuilding was work that paid but was not fulfilling. "Her great hull would block out the light of the sun". Our need for connection, purpose, work that feeds our soul, doesn't steal it. |
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| Sting – The Wild Wild Sea Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think this song might be about the scary places our mind and our lives can take us if we dare to go out past the known. Sometimes we get lost at sea. Out in the world looking for truth, meaning.... only to find emptiness, nothing. In this case, Sting trying to find meaning in his father's death. "The bridge to heaven is broken". Sting is describing the area between earth and the afterlife. His father's soul helps him get back to the living. You go after the dead, clinging to them. We get no answers to our human questions. Much anxiety and frustration, We are lost on the wild, wild sea. No one answers us as if those who could only mock us. "as if mocking my frail human hopes." Our fathers, our guardian angels if they exist, are always there to bring us back. He has to face the storm again to get back to land. His father is steering the ship. If a prayer today, the day my father died, is offered please offer it to me, not my father. I'm the one lost on the sea, he's bringing me back. I'm the one stuck between two worlds. |
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| Sting – Why Should I Cry For You? Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Why should I cry for you when I'm the one who has to keep on living this tortured life? The dead should be crying for us. Why should I? Why should I cry for you? Dark angels follow me Over a godless sea Mountains of endless falling, For all my days remaining, |
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| Sting – All This Time Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Actually meek does imply poor according to some of the bible translations I've been looking at. You have to look at all of Psalm 37 not just 37:11 As you know, the Psalms were written way before Jesus. But, I understand you wanting to link it to him. ps... I rarely read the bible but have enjoyed this exercise because it is similar to some of the Plato philosophy I've been reading. Not to mention some of the people I've been doing battle with. I don't mean to turn this into a bible class but check out this..... Psalm 37: 7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. 11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; Mt. 5.5 and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. (I think verse 7 prospereth sets up the opposite of who he means by meek. The poor, unrewarded, hungry.....begging bread in verse 25. To clearify it more, in verse 14, it actually uses the word poor in this translation.....) 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation. That said, Peace. |
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| Sting – All This Time Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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What a cynical philosophy of his father's and his life Sting presents here.... Similar to the theme on the first track of this album Soul Cages, where the boy just wants to escape this miserable town. The townsmen build the ships, sweat in miserable conditions but never see any glory in it. They are told by the rich people who employ them, and their priests....it's ok, you don't want to be rich. It's harder for a rich man to enter into heaven than a camel can pass through the eye of a needle. From the Bible...“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” Silly Bunny above points out that Sting's dad was a dairy farmer. I guess Sting found it easier to point out that the blue collar life sometimes breaks men's spirits and they are told to wait for heaven. But the workers have lost faith in God as well. "If Jesus exists how come he never lived here?" Or, why would we want to inherit to inherit a used up earth? I guess this song is about exploitation. And if Sting's father had a tenth of the genous that Sting had, imagine the waste if it never got a chance to flourish. I guess, it's this anger that came up with the grief of losing his father. Merging with Sting's interest in helping the exploited or weaker people in the world....his politics and philosophy and personal story all merging. I love the line "and all that was left was the stones the workmen found" Isn't there another song where he says the same thing....in all our works, nothing remains???. |
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| Sting – Sister Moon Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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After years of listening to and loving this song and album, it occurred to me that "her eyes are nothing like the sun" meant that he could gaze at them forever without turning away like we do with the sun. It matches what he says in the first verse when he says he would gaze at the moon the whole night through. I did some research later and saw that it refers to a sonnet with an entirely different meaning. I wonder which meaning Sting implied? |
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| Tori Amos – Silent All These Years Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"Excuse me but can I be you for awhile", might mean, can I be as critical as you for a second. "My dog won't bite if you sit real still." I won't criticize what you don't say or do. "You never shutup." Never stop "Your mother shows up in a nasty dress, its your turn now...." Maybe, his mother came by after church, she's the critical church type. It's his turn now to take the criticism, that's who he got it from." "Everyone is looking at you, here, take hold of my hand." When people put you under a microscope it feels like the whole world sees it. She feels compassion for her boyfriend's pain now. Silent all the years because of all of the perceived judgement from adults. But what if I'm an angel, god or a superhero....that has been criticized into believing she is small. Imagine a mermaid thinking she needs to wear jeans of someone whose mother has made him feel small too. |
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| Tori Amos – Winter Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I thought that "all the white horses still in bed", refer to all of the bones in their graves of people who passed this way before us. Yes, things change, so fast. Later, she says, "white horses, have gone ahead", meaning to whatever you believe is next. White, because of the color of skeletons. Horses, as a fun, take on people who were once strong, fierce and free as horses. Love me some Tori Amos |
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