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| Tori Amos – Humpty Dumpty Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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it's about who pushed humpty dumpty off the wall...it was Betty Louise...and what it takes to be Queen. I always asked myself, "who pushed humpty dumpty?" Now I know. |
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| Tori Amos – Big Wheel Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This is simply an attack on the patriarchy both in society and religion. She's been on the other side...the side where patriarchy is the crown, where women get smacked on the lips. The smacking of the lips is the action of women being silenced by the patriarchy. The action of turning whiskey into rain is an inversion of Jesus turning water into wine. The whiskey fits perfectly with the southern/bayou rock them she's got going on. The big wheel can stand for a form of system that goes round and round, unstoppable, but instead of letting it dictate her life, the speaker (not Tori necessarily) is going to take advantage and use that unstoppable force to power her own fantasies, like a the wheel in a watermill produces energy. The MILF and momma got it all in here bag is just a feminist assertion. |
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| Tori Amos – Father's Son Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think song has to do with Christian dogma. First of all, Father's Son resonates with Jesus, son of the Father, God. Bread can feed a few goes with the breaking of the bread. Catholics feed upon the bread every mass, the bread being the body of Christ. The virgin gun is Mary. A gun can also be a feminine symbol, not just a phallic one. A gun can be loaded with bullet, the same way a woman is filled with the seed and "loaded" with baby. Mary is the gun and Jesus is the bullet because under His and His father's name, people have started wars and death, thus the birth of Jesus is compared to the firing of a gun. The Gods fighting ringside is the many aspects of God (Christian God, Jewish God, Allah) and the wars between the people who believe in each aspect. The boy addressed later in the song is Jesus; "steady boy watch them pray, to you I suspect." This song is about Jesus, what him and his mother stand for, but also how we humans have taken this and twisted it for our own human/selfish needs: war, debauchery, etc. |
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