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| Tori Amos – Virginia Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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So many levels I'm sure. Listening to it I've come to hear a native american girl falling in love with an individual or the white people taking over her peoples land. There is love from the other side too (for the land or the individual for the individual girl) but little respect for the native american attitudes and beliefs about life. The girl actively forgetting herself. "She will betray all that she loves, and even wait for their saviour to come". Native American's being very connected to the land "Virginia do you remember when the land held your hand?". "Turquoise serpents" - spiritual wisdom. They remind me of the chakra system. Loosing the thread now but something like that maybe? |
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| Tori Amos – Pancake Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"A dash of truth spreed thinly, like a flag on a pop star, on a benzodiazapine". Is it truth becoming gradually more dilute, hidden and harder to find? How we bury our own truths. |
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| Tori Amos – Rattlesnakes Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This is one of the most heart breaking songs I have ever heard. Both the lyricist and Tori Amos have such sympathy with the character.
I believe rattlesnakes symbolise potential danger but the song itself conveys a story of someone who has got a little lost in the hurts of love and relationships and is left with no conclusion or solution, just a wish to never re experience those pains. The song is not about any immediate danger. She over compensates "Jodie wears a hat although it hasn't rained for six days". We hear the character has become apt at steering away from these situations "Jodie never sleeps cause there are always needles in the hay". I always felt that lyric was contrasting the more playful side of love and romance against the potential for hurt. The needles in the lovers hay stack. I feel the character wanting to cut herself off completely from any pleasure out of fear of pain so much so that "her never born child haunts her now as she speeds down the freeway" completely bored and at a loss with life and herself. She is reading philosophical books for meaning and still finds "she's oblivious despite herself". She acknowledges that love was her great disappointment. When she says all she needs is therapy it is as if a friend is echoing back to her "all you need is love, is all you need". In concert when Tori sings this she pays homage to the Beatles pausing over the lyrics "all you need is love". |
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