| Tori Amos – Spring Haze Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I was always under the impression that this song was about Robert Kennedy's plane crash. Tori has always had an interest in the Kennedys, Jackie especially, and this song seems to pretty closely follow the events and conditions that led to Robert Kemnedy's tragic plane crash into the Atlantic. He was flying a single engine Cessna, which is explicitly mentioned in the song. All major authorities agree that the extremely heavy "haze" from that evening made visibility nearly impossible, and most likely directly caused the crash. The plane went down very late on a Saturday night, hence Tori's speculation that they were lost in the clouds, and "circling," "waiting for Sunday to land." She's imagining that maybe if they'd made it til Sunday morning's light they could have beeb able to see through the haze, and might have been as to land safely. But unfortunately they could only have just made it into the earliest hour of Sunday, darkness still shrouding the landscape, and because of that they were instead "waiting on Sunday to drown." |
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