| Tori Amos – Peeping Tommi Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Don't run away from me now" seems to be her coaching herself, telling herself that she doesn't need to disconnect from the sexual experience because she's safe. But no matter how much she tells herself that it's okay, all she can see is the rapist. She can't like the things she used to like because it's all been tainted by the man who raped her. "She's willing" seems to be addressing that some of her is okay with what's going on but is still a little tentative. "Time to let it go. Time to give my gun a nice surprise" (if the gun was the man in Me And A Gun) then the surprise would be that she's going to move forward, tell the memory of the rape to fuck off. By the end, she's realized she can do it, she's safe. I found that tracking the progression of Me And A Gun to Peeping Tommi to Baker Baker to Never Seen the Blue, you get the story of a woman who was raped, began recovering, got scared, and then was shown that it's time for her to step back into her skin and live her life. I think it's kind of cool. |
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