Feel a little hand turning inside me
Don't you think she feels us fighting
Strike me at the root
I won't let you
Put her through
What you put me through

when I said --- I wanted it all,
Doesn't every woman want it all...

running through the house screaming
Girl unstrung you could always play that one
Baptized of fire and
Every beat in the bar
Hymns for her
Feel her kick me from the inside

when I said ---- I wanted it all,
Doesn't every woman want it all...
As a man ---- do you find,
Doesn't every boy smoke to cry...

you could almost drown her waterfall
You could almost drown my waterfall

through the Looking-Glass, Ruby sees
Things in you
Things in me
She won't wanna be
Just a little light turning the key
At the root, what I missed...
She will carry

when I said --- I wanted it all,
Doesn't every woman want it all...
As a man --- do you find,
Doesn't every boy smoke to cry...

feel a little hand
Turning
Turning
Ruby

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itsALLprogramMUSIC, I was wondering exactly the same thing, that's why I came to look at the lyrics here - because I've never fully understood what she meant by that line "As a man do you find, doesn't every boy smoke to cry?" I would think that maybe she is saying something about the difference between a boy and a man because why else would she say "as a man" and then "every boy" - she could have said "every one" or something but she chose boy. But smoking is something people do to relieve tension and feel better about things and crying can also do this. But of course, crying is something more associated with girls, and men have this whole idealized "being a real man" expectation. So I think she's just saying something like men smoke to relieve themselves, on a more general level, it's pointing out that men have a different way of going about doing things than women, I don't think it's completely literal.

I wonder if anyone else has a better idea, because she's never made any comments on the song specically, so it's hard to know what she meant by it unless she explained it.

itsALLprogramMUSIC, I was wondering exactly the same thing, that's why I came to look at the lyrics here - because I've never fully understood what she meant by that line "As a man do you find, doesn't every boy smoke to cry?" I would think that maybe she is saying something about the difference between a boy and a man because why else would she say "as a man" and then "every boy" - she could have said "every one" or something but she chose boy. But smoking is something people do to relieve tension and feel better about things and crying can also do this. But of course, crying is something more associated with girls, and men have this whole idealized "being a real man" expectation. So I think she's just saying something like men smoke to relieve themselves, on a more general level, it's pointing out that men have a different way of going about doing things than women, I don't think it's completely literal. I wonder if anyone else has a better idea, because she's never made any comments on the song specically, so it's hard to know what she meant by it unless she explained it.

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@estelle I would like first to thank everyone in this site. You guys are awesome. Getting back to estelle, what has been answered thus far suit the bill to me. But I would like to add some more. Because this is my favorite song by Tori. Every single word of this song is the merciless execution of a man. An apparently shallow man, but one may question why on earth someone would ever write or publish such a song. The very act kind of rehabilitates the guy, to some extent. Not in any way in contradiction to what has been said, everything is true. But I get the lyrics in this sense: As a man don't you find. I do not want to discuss with you anymore. I understand you have a physical (at this point) limitation to understand stuff, but I'm making the extreme effort and sacrifice. I would address my ex wife this way, and actually tempted to answer to text messages exactly this way. The reference to "does every boy smokes to cry" is a merciless accusation of a paper macho, abusive mother..., who is unable to feel a freaking thing, but in figurative ways like smoking. I apologize to you all, but I need to take this out of my chest...

whatever65on November 09, 2019