| Tori Amos – Mother Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| It sounds like she's being forced to leave home by a controlling mother -- not exactly an arranged marriage, but any one of a number of situations parents force their children into, like a particular school, or a relationship with the "right kind" of person. And, you know, parents force their kids into doing things that are maybe in line with their talents, but that they might not be ready for yet, or that they might know how to do but not be able to fully understand why they should do it. | |
| Tori Amos – Leather Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| the reference to the weather is sort of in the spirit of, "God, I feel like shit, and I'm pretty sure it's not the weather causing it." or possibly not merely feeling like shit, but having all these things go wrong with a relationship and knowing there's something wrong -- in everyday life, weather is so the cliched, convenient excuse for bad things happening. | |
| Tori Amos – Black-Dove (January) Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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So many parts of this song to love -- abuse is "how a lion becomes a mouse"; a strong child becomes meek and subservient out of fear and degradation. "You're not a helicopter, you're not a cop-out either, honey" and again when she talks about not needing a spaceship, and "they don't know you've already lived on the other side of the galaxy" -- other kids, other people in general, can sense when something is wrong with a child, even if they can't articulate it. And the other people take that out on the child by treating her differently, like an alien. Except they can't understand why the kid is so different, usually, and end up just ostracizing her further. |
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| Tori Amos – Father Lucifer Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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That conversation with her dad is hilarious! This song is Lucifer the light-bearer, who rejects the gloss, the high ideal, and goes to dwell in the underworld (and the myth is much, much older than the Christian version -- the Hades tales in Greco-Roman mythology are an easy place to start). Here is Tori, looking around for the hidden parts of life, the parts we hide under social niceties. I think most of her music is about that search. |
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