| Carina Round – Motel 74 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I stole into the eyes of a boy singing the blues Hair jet black kicked starts from his shoes I smoked his cigarette cause his lips had touched it And I found out soon he sure know how to use a hotel room I could open my hands and let the rain come down But you're just to close to dream I had And I'm scared and I don't know why I do But I miss you He stood there restless, waiting for me Body hummed with colours I have never seen He said 'we keep on burning, honey, like two stars in the same constellation Screaming through the air' Then with a look like the light leaving He said 'I've known you for a thousand years' I could open my hands and let the rain come down But you're just to close to dream I have I'm scared and I don't know why I can't watch you go I can't watch you go I know it sounds strange and untrue But I miss you Girls on the streets, shine ruby lips Black straight hair from tip to hip Brown eyes blaze under blue eyelashes for you honey for you. Little girl watch out (as you pretty so be wise) Little girl be proud (never steal into the eyes) Little girl get out (of the kind that hypnotize) Little get watch out Little girl be proud Little girl get out Little girl watch out Little girl be proud Little girl get out |
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| Florence + the Machine – Girl with One Eye Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I don't think it's about a lesbian relationship, per se (although it could be), but about two girls who maybe were close but are VERY different from one another. Or even about two conflicting personalities within one girl (represented by each eye). One is innocent and sees the good in others, the other is manipulative and sees the bad. I get a vibe of sexual abuse, and how some girls who have been abused sexualize/abuse others and themselves in ways similar to their perpetrators. The innocent girl in the song lost her virginity and the narrator has a need to sexualize this experience and take part in destroying her innocence, taking on the role of the man who abused her. She wants the girl to see things the way she does, which cutting her eye out conveys. I think there are ways girls do that without necessarily having a lesbian experience-- maybe she has sex with the same guy/pie. |
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| Tori Amos – Space Dog Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Here's the really long quote Tori said about this song (from hereinmyhead.com): "As far as Space Dog goes, it was a drawing on a mud wall in New Mexico. It was a shape, and it really was, if I could take a picture and show it to you sometime, the whole record was recorded in mud, mud walls, adobe and wood ceilings, wood floors, because Eric really loved the sound, which is why it sounds like it has that warm womb thing. Well, in one of the rooms, there was this -- it's Space Dog. A feather on his head, and it's this sharp nose. It just really is. That's how so many of these songs came, in this Under the Pink world. If you rip all your skin off, we're all pink, and it's about what's underneath that. That's how I see it, anyway. Space Dog would come and visit me, just as my alternative deity, so to speak. The idea that everybody puts their faith in, I don't know, this yogi or this channel or this god or this saint or this whatever, well, Space Dog was like, hey, it's my deity. I was flying over Chicago. Before I got into the city, I was flying over, and I just felt this scene happening by this 7-11 I could see way in the distance. It was a very cold night. It was in March, and I was going in for a signing at Rose Records. I was flying in, and I felt this young boy, 13, 14 years old, with his family. He's eating peas. His family is like, some of those people that show up on Oprah Winfrey sometimes, that you just go, My God, if I had to go home with them, I would contemplate, like, eating Pledge. And I just felt his presence. I felt him just opening himself up to another possibility, because his world was just so closed. The best thing he had near him was the 7-11 goddess. I was just watching from the -- I was in the window seat, and I was just watching, like, way down. I felt Space Dog. I've been talking to him, and I felt Space Dog going, 'Lemon pie. Coming through, lemon pie.' It was very Agent 99. I kind of felt like Agent 99 going, "Oh, Max." And this young man responded. There is something out there. The idea, again, with Pretty Good Year, there's a lot of triads in this whole record, and Pretty Good Year and Space Dog kind of kiss each other, where -- let me focus my thought. In the bridge, Deck the halls, going back again, to, again, not having resolve. I'm young again. Somewhere, someone must know the ending. Where's Neil when you need him? You know, that's all in that. Is she still pissing in the river now? Patti Smith. Heard she'd gone, moved into a trailer park. Concept being, somebody that had all of these beliefs, and then just numbed themselves. And Space Dog's philosophy is, well, together, when I'm hanging out with him, it's, So sure we were on something. Your feet are finally on the ground, he said. That's Space Dog's philosophy. And in the counter vocal in the end goes, again, the betrayal stuff, mostly girls, and yet, if I'm in the present, and I'm on something, which is on the earth, on the ground, then I have total opportunity to decide what my reaction will be. I can't decide anything else, but I can decide if I'm going to let something totally take over my life, which it did in The Waitress. But by Space Dog, I'm going, I do have a choice. It's part of the growth."-- Tori; The Baltimore Sun, 1994 The drug connection definitely seems present (especially above), but I do think this song makes sense in a very confusing, multi-layered right-brained way without them. Like what esoteric06 wrote. At the core I think it's about an innate spirituality and living up to dreams, believing we are more than what we see. Also, a great fear of not living up to this potential and uncertainty of how the situation will play out when we are not among like-minded individuals. The "pissing in the river" as a Patti Smith reference is about how Patti abandoned her career after success. I think of it as pissing in the river of consciousness, settling with a lesser day-to-day life and like Tori said, numbing ourselves. I love the "deck the halls" bit where Tori is looking through to someone else's life, getting confused and lost in her empathy. She wants to guide this person but needs guidance herself by Neil, a storyteller, someone else with imagination, in order to find clarity and move forward. What he says is that her feet are on the ground, meaning, it doesn't take just being a dreamer. It's being present with them, living in reality. The Andromeda reference: In mythology she is the virgin daughter of Cassiopeia, who bragged she was more beautiful than nymphs. As punishment Andromeda was chained naked to a rock to be ravaged by sea monsters (until Perseus rescued/married her). By the end of the song Tori seems to realize the character in the song does have the choice to not have this tragic Andromeda ending. |
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