How can I be drunk?
You strike with dry poison
I am possessed
Still engaged in some kind of advanced shackling

Girl you got to find you the man who
Can smoke this out, Bad Medicine
Girl you got to find you the man who
Can smoke this out, Good Medicine would say

You got you a fast horse darlin'
But all you do is complain it ain't a Maserati.
You had a soul that you left back in Memphis
But your mama ain't New York she is pure
Tennessee

On a desert highway
I am struck by my own rage
Time-bomb in his palm a finger-apple
Augments this advanced shackling

Girl you got to find you the man who
Can smoke this out, bad medicine
Girl you got to find you the man who
Can smoke this out, good medicine would say

You got you a fast horse darlin'
But all you do is complain it ain't a Maserati.
You had a soul that you left back in Memphis
But your mama ain't New York she is pure
Can't you see your mama ain't New York
She is pure Tennessee
Tennessee


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Fast Horse Lyrics as written by Tori Ellen Amos

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    Love, love, love this song! The intereptations are great. Personally this song to me represented a girl about to marry but she feel pressured and internally doesn't really want to marry. Everyone says she has a great guy but she feels there is better out there. But after I read daneypops intereptation the song makes more sense.

    The first verse starts it off: "How can I be drunk? You strike with dry poison I am possessed Still engaged in some kind of advanced shackling"

    How can I be drunk...drunk in love, she's not in love.

    You strike with dry poision...there is no liquid no substance, dry poision no mushy lovey feelings.

    goldenthreadson February 02, 2010   Link

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