| Tori Amos – Horses Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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This song is one of the most cryptically brilliant songs about going on a sex/rebound relationship bender It is about needing a man to feel alive and safe. The men are like a drug she needs to feel normal. Since she has just had a major break up, she explores a variety of men in a rebound fashion, each encounter chipping away her self-esteem even more, feeling less and less. “Open my hands and they were empty them”—after I slept with you I felt empty inside This song is about looking for ways to fill emptiness through sex (which is being confused for love and validation). After a major break up where you are the one rejected the sting of it can bring up a variety of inner wounds and traumas. She attempts to self soothe these traumas through rebound sexual encounters to feel wanted and loved on a primal level. I wouldn’t even be surprised if Horses are euphemisms for….as in “hung like a horse” The men she lusts after are “the sailor”, “the tailor”, Milkwood man, “Superfly”, “Bill” “Ben”, “the Afro”, “the Pharoah”. The buffet of men to choose from. “Making mother well to me” is if I can just be in a relationship or get married my mother will stop being so worried about me. Like you’re the guy I could bring home to mom. “As long as your army keeps perfectly still “means I can only handle your body at the moment, please do not give me your offenses or defenses because I’m too fragile for anything else. “Sniffing a sharpie pen”—-think about it “Counting your bees” - birds and the bees - sex… “The camera is rolling” to me almost means that these relationships are purely sexual and almost pornographic. This is what she is reduced to. “It’s easy like one two three”—-I can just act like I like this empty sex. I am just being an actress pretending to be what I think you want. “If there is a way to find you I will find you”—-I will always find a man to have but will a man ever find/want me? The next song Blood Roses is the aftermath of Horses —being reduced to a piece of sexual meat and having to find yourself again. |
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