| Tori Amos – Yes, Anastasia Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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lastoftherockstars, tahnks so much for the piece of info about the windowsill - never knew there was this sign there but, i'm a bit offtop here - just clarifying this for you: swastika is an ancient Indian sign (not only Indian, of course, but probably originating from there) of the Sun. Which, of course, meant good luck, warmth, rotation (change of seasons, etc). Unfortunately, in the Middle Ages the use of swastika was not often as it was obviously a heathen sign, but in Russia (where heathen beliefs co-existed along with Christianity quite peacefully) it remained and was often carved over the doors, embroydered on the towels and was an important symbol. up to recently, when the Nazis dug it up - cause they needed SOME ancient sign to claim it theirs - i wish they chose another sign. now it's impossible to expose swastikas whenever in Russia: think, the country suffered from the Nazis no less than the Jews and France and Poland, and it was Russian close-to-heart sign i can't imagina how sorrowful people must have felt to see their sacred symbol thus perverted well, sorry for the off-top |
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| Tori Amos – Caught A Lite Sneeze Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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sorry, forgot she also sings 'boys in the middle' - the saints, Christ? but still he's not there maybe it means there are people in the church - but no god, actually like the wisdom goes: 'the god's temple is in a man's heart' that may be another meaning for the line, i.e. people pushed the real god outa the chruch he's not there anymore |
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| Tori Amos – Caught A Lite Sneeze Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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hemm, maybe she means there are all those altar boys on both sides of me - like she's on an altar, so it seems! and he's not there - WHO? Christ, the man she loves, or else? |
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| Tori Amos – Caught A Lite Sneeze Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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well, that sounds to be true but what will you say about words she sings as back vocals: Inanna...Inanna...Inanna...bring your son... She said in some interview/or in Piece by Piece/ these are the words she sings. I'm curious what you think of it. Inanna is some goddess (gotta look it up) - then why have two religious figures: the Judo-Christian St John - and the heathen Inanna (much more ancient goddess, btw!) |
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| Tori Amos – Mother Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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A GREAT SONG!!! Pity Tori didn't play it at the Moscow concert this year (thiugh it was on the track list originally) - I guess this one would do to make me cry)) though we all wept with joy but back to the topic. guess any way you see the song is right - just the way you see it. Tori always said she's not writing songs for others to guess what she meant - she does it and she means something - but let people see what they do see, that's it I remember in a 1992 interview Tori said Mother has somethings of a Sandman in it (the way Ray bRadbury pictures him in his story of the same name - where an alien comes to earth and is transformed into various things and even a Sandman by a lil boys mindforce, and where the boy - who's being brought up in a sort of private school - finally makes the alien look like himself (the boy) and so is free to leave the school). she said something about the other galaxies out there and how there might be theseforms of life that are too ethereal to stay themselves if they get to earth... and that fits quite well into any interpretaion, you see: like the girls are ethereal, a material, and can be morphes into anything their moms/husbands/producers/agents wish them to then of course the song alludes to religion ('brides in veils for you' - one of the MANY meanings of the line is that women had to cover their head when they entered church, and the church was thought of as Christ's bride - btw the album is soaked with Christ allusions to the single line) and this way Tori can jump from one thing to another in a second - Christ, mysogyny, moms who are the only refuge of their daughters OR their bitterest enemies as they teach girls to feel shame for beig girls, for having menstruation (which is still though a shameful subject in way too many cultures - though the subject of man's ejaculation is put onto every post, 'having problems with ejaculation? not hard enough?' no, F you very much, i got problems with how i feel shameful about my menstruation if my boyfriend wants me now - and i got 'red army at quarters right in there'!), the society that forbids women to have their own dreams...god, we haveto shame our mysogyny, not our femininity! and two most heart-rendering lines for me personally: 'pantyhose running in the cold' - so much loneliness and tears in this one! - the way society assesses women: how you look, what you should be, i.e. you should be right, proper, prim, cross your legs - but mind, hwever right you are, the Man will subject you to his rule, will punish you for yourbeing subservient -god, he has the right to do just that - how can you be so subservient. pity, but we don't value people who always are right with us, are we? 'breadcrumbs lost under the snow' - an allusion to the myths and tales where the characters/heroes marked their way in order to be able to get back one day. she sees her world covered with snow, sshe olst the way back, she's cold, she's alone - no safety net. even...no dreams of her own. she's poisoned - she can't look up at the moon, her celestial mother. just read again (or read for the first time) such things as Andersen's 'Girl with the matches', some myths about Ariadne and the thread, myth about Persephone (when Persephone was lost for hADES, HER MOM dEMETER WAS SO SORROWFUL SHE MADE EARTH BE FRUITLESS AND WINTER BEFALL ALL AROUND) - AND YOU'LL SEE MORE, MUCH MORE good luck, soldiers))) your interpretations cleared some lines for mee, too) |
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| Tori Amos – Spark Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Wow, had to take some rest after having written this much! As to the girls in the car who don't help Tori - sorry got no deciphering as yet(( I think she said there's something about them...like the Children of the Corn (I'm not an American or English and never sw the movie, so I may put the title wrong - may be it was the Cornkids - I know the title only in translation - and so can't say what assosiations Tori - and the rest of the world - may have to the movie) hope you find my interpretation useful) |
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| Tori Amos – Spark Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Well, i see the song pulled so many memories in every one of us) as for the video, that's my take at it: First, Tori is driven somewhere in a car, tied up, in the junk. I guess, it represents the miscarriage: like she never thought of anything bad to happen, she just took this long ride called life, never actually thinking who sat at the wheel. (Turns out, many of us never actually know - or want to know who the driver is, do we?) And this very attitude got her trapped: literally and metaphorically. She thought she was a big star, riding in that chick car? Nope, ma'am...you put too much trust in someone you didn't know - so, it might mean she smoke, was toying with drugs, ate junkfood, didn't care about her lifestyle etc. You see, when things feel deceptively secure, do we ever wonder what happens? Sorry, but the answer is 'generally not'. And so the driver (I think he is the Inner Enemy - as a Jungian philosopher Clarissa Pincola Estes puts it - btw, you better check her up,cause her book 'Women who run with the wolves' seems to me to be often read and re-read by Tori - they have so much in common when it comes to the WOMAN issues)...well, the driver gradually takes over Tori, who lost the control and isn't watchful anymore. But! The miscarriage happens - that is the BUMP into the tree. When I was thinking about why this dreadful driver is searching for Tori (I was sure he trapped her and was going to kill her), it just klicked! He was taken by surprise as much as she was - only for her (for her Inner Woman, in Ms Pincola's terms) it was the awakening moment - and for him the moment of panic: she got free, she may run away, she may take over him and rule her life from then on! It is almost as if he's more afraid than she is - remember how the driver is truly anxious to find her - the Inner Enemy can't be when the Inner Woman (or Man) is free. And she wanders through the forest (her doubts and fears, and at the same time - the place of primal instincts that help her survive the pain), plunges - blindly - into the river, where the tissue falls from her eyes (she is re-baptized, re-born, she got cleared of the lies around her, she SAW. Also water may mean the water in the womb hat surrounds the baby - she came back to that moment and SAW). Finally, she gets to the other side (another meaningful symbol - the river means a para-normal experience, like communicating with the Other World: she went inside (remember her words about the time of Boys for Pele when she told about going inside and letting all those suppressed parts of her woman free?) and she watched the things in a different light). And when she gets out of the water, the driver can no longer get her - remember how he looks at the river- he's perplexed and annoyed, he can't get to the other side - he has to stay where he is and go back. |
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| Tori Amos – Spark Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Lyricoll, would u be so kind as to enlighten us about the precise point in the Bible of the mysterious "6.58"? It feels u're quite right, but I'm just scared of the prospect of going through the whole of the Big Book to get the point ;) Luv the song as well! |
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| Peter Gabriel – Red Rain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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dear rikdad, the Freudian cimagery is valid only as far as you believe he has it right sorry to tell you, but most of his theories (and the dream analysis as well) has long ago been proved wrong by neurophychologists (why don't you read the book 'Welcome to your brain' by Sam Wong, for example?), who state that our dreams reflect the processes our brain works out when the conscience is off - not to clutter our waking hours with endless thoughts so...why don't you mark your comments as 'for the Freaudians ONLY'? I'm not saying you are NOT right, I mean, your pov is as good as anybody else's...if they believe in that |
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