| Tori Amos – You Can Bring Your Dog Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is classic floozy rock! I thought "You can bring your dog" was kind of a coy way of saying: Make yourself at home! Get comfortable at my place! I got anything you want, hence: I got three (dogs). Remember, this is the Santa character singing and she is all about flirting and seduction the old school way. And then she gets a little kinky towards the end with, "You can bring your mom." Finally, she kind of breaks down and admits that despite all her insistences that she's not looking for a mate, she begs, "Please now bring your love!" admitting that she is quite lonely. Bottom line is: it's catchy! |
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| Tori Amos – Muhammad My Friend Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think the line "And I've never seen light but I sure have seen gold" is a reference to greed and how something like gold (that shines) can easily be confused (perhaps for someone willingly deceived) with light. In this case, the person has never seen genuine light but has instead seen a lot of this substitution that so induces people's greed. What is also interesting is that gold is generally seen as rare (rarer than light) seems more abundant than light, thus implying how rare authentic light is that it should be rarer than gold. |
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| Tori Amos – Tombigbee Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Hey, thanks! That makes a lot of sense. She sounds very sarcastic when she sings it, at least in the performance video I saw, kind of upset actually. At first, I thought she was saying, "Rode me a carpet" which implies the same thing--flying as opposed to walking. |
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| Tori Amos – Tombigbee Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Why oh why didn't she put this song on the album!!! 'Scarlet's Walk' isn't my favorite Tori Amos album, but this song is priceless and probably would have been (IMHO) the BEST song on the album had it been there. 'Mountain' should be on there too! Anyway... does anybody have any ideas as to what the lyric "Roll me a carpet; roll me a carpet boy, roll me a carpet from here to Oklahoma" means? It's probably my favorite part of the song. |
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| Tori Amos – Sweet the Sting Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Has anyone else noticed how the lyric: "I. I have heard. that you can play the way I like it to be played" kind of mimics the line in 'Precious Things' "He said you're really an ugly girl, but I like the way you play..." The Beekeeper is a much softer, gentler album as others have commented and 13 years after 'Little Earthquakes' Tori Amos seems to have resolved a lot of her sexual/feminine angst (e.g. she married and had a baby), so now she is more at ease with herself and men and sexuality, etc. and hence the lyric reflects that. Just a thought I had last time I listened to this song. |
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