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and through the life force and there goes her friend
on her Nishiki it's out of time
and through the portal they can make amends
hey would you say whatever we're blanket friends
can't stop what's coming
can't stop what's on its way
and through the walls they made their mudpies
I've got your mind I said
she said I've your voice
I said you don't need my voice girl
you have your own
but you never thought it was enough of
so they went years and years
like sisters blanket girls
always there through that and this
there's nothing we cannot ever fix I said
can't stop what's coming
can't stop what's on its way
Bells and footfalls and soldiers and dolls
brothers and lovers she and I were
now she seems to be sand under his shoes
there's nothing I can do
can't stop what's coming
can't stop what's on its way
and now I speak to you are you in there
you have her face and her eyes
but you are not her
and we go at each other like blank ettes
who can't find their thread and their bare
can't stop loving
can't stop what is on its way
and I see it coming
and it's on its way
on her Nishiki it's out of time
and through the portal they can make amends
hey would you say whatever we're blanket friends
can't stop what's coming
can't stop what's on its way
and through the walls they made their mudpies
I've got your mind I said
she said I've your voice
I said you don't need my voice girl
you have your own
but you never thought it was enough of
so they went years and years
like sisters blanket girls
always there through that and this
there's nothing we cannot ever fix I said
can't stop what's coming
can't stop what's on its way
Bells and footfalls and soldiers and dolls
brothers and lovers she and I were
now she seems to be sand under his shoes
there's nothing I can do
can't stop what's coming
can't stop what's on its way
and now I speak to you are you in there
you have her face and her eyes
but you are not her
and we go at each other like blank ettes
who can't find their thread and their bare
can't stop loving
can't stop what is on its way
and I see it coming
and it's on its way
Lyrics submitted by Novartza
Track duration: 05:22
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"Like blankettes"
"and now I speak to you are you in there
you have her face and her eyes
but you are not her"
"Bells" = warning bells?
I tried to post a reply directly, but it was a no-go. Anyway, I also thought it could be a song to herself. I read in another forum that Under the Pink is thought of as a 'girls' album in that it deals with the different ways women hurt one another through betrayl and jealousy.
I had this idea at one time that the 'two friends' were actually two [or more] opposing sides of herself and the bells signified having to face losing one part of herself for another part. And that the different selves mean so many little intimacies to each other "Bells and footfalls and soldiers and dolls/brothers and lovers she and I were" but that time is changing them.
In this way, there is an inner war between these selves. Like one part doesn't think she has a voice, so she wants to use a braver, cover voice, but that the part that is telling the story is saying 'you don't need my voice, girl/ you have your own/but you never thought it was enough of.' And there also seems to be this fear that with the introduction of men some part of her will dissolve, like 'sand under his shoes.' And she 'can't stop what's coming' so she just has to face it and be resigned to it.
This has always been one of my favorite songs by Tori Amos. I use to listen to it a lot when I was going though a very difficult time in my life, a time that required growing into a much stronger woman.
I always felt that the song was about the ever growing and changing sense of self. The struggle between love and dislike, strength and weakness within the self.
I have spent a really long time listening to this song (years even) and reading/considering your comments. Finally I just wrote a journal entry about my thoughts on this song (because this forum isn't designed for prolonged discourse), so if you have interest in what I had to say here is the URL: starshinesmonet.livejournal.com/…
I added it here in case the other doesn't work: songmeanings.net/journals/view/17085992/
I've got your mind I said
she said I've your voice
I said you don't need my voice girl
you have your own
but you never thought it was enough of
so they went years and years
like sisters blanket girls
always there through that and this
there's nothing we cannot ever fix I said
It's pretty explicit that they've grown apart but "brothers and lovers she and I were," and "like sisters blanket girls," seem to imply that they were more than just close friends at some point, maybe this lead to them drifting apart. "but you never thought it was enough of" seems to be a half finished thought, letting trail off what the other party didn't think there was enough of.
But somehow, she can't stop loving her friend
It seems to me that the singer has grown up with this friend all through childhood and adolescence, and now the friend has gotten involved with someone who is abusive, and it just keeps getting worse.
Abused folks are often dependent, and the phrase "I said you don't need my voice girl
you have your own
but you never thought it was enough of" strikes me as that... someone who can't speak for themselves and so other perople speak for them, controlling them.
"Sand under his shoes" is a pretty low thing to be, and naturally, when she confronts her friend about it, they fight, "go at each other like blank ettes."
The lively friend she had is gone, so far gone that she appears dead inside... "and now I speak to you are you in there you have her face and her eyes but you are not her"
And the singer is afraid that it's going to end in tragedy. That her friend is either going to suicide or be killed by the abuse. She's like to be able to turn away, I think, but she loves the friend too much.
It's a terrible position to be in: "can't stop loving, can't stop what is on its way, and I see it coming, and it's on its way."