God sometimes you just don't come through
Do you need a woman to look after you
God sometimes you just don't come through
I gotta find what you're doing about things here
a few witches burning gets a little toasty here
I gotta find why you always go when the wind blows
tell me you're crazy maybe then I'll understand
you got your 9 iron in the back seat just in case
heard you've gone south well babe you love your new 4 wheel
I gotta find why you always go when the wind blows
nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings]
will you even tell her if you decide to make the sky
God sometimes you just don't come through
Do you need a woman to look after you
God sometimes you just don't come through
"I gotta find why you always go when the wind blows." Simple. Means where is God when things get hard to deal with?
I think there's two parts to this song.
The first part is Tori angry at God for the misogyny of mainstream Christianity. She's defiant and angry. The second part ("why you always go when the wind blows?") is her revealing that there's more to it than just anger- she doesn't believe in God, but she sort of wishes she does, and it's upsetting to her that she doesn't see much evidence of it. The loud instruments cut out right when she says that bit, which indicates that she's showing her more personal thoughts beneath the bluster.
@Crane42 It's not just Christianity, but considering she grew up in a small town in North Carolina, I can certainly understand that Christianity would be the one that irritates her the most. I don't believe in the supernatural, but that doesn't prevent me from being annoyed by the kind of things that religious people either promote (the right-wing ones) or just pretend isn't there (the relatively moderate ones).
@Crane42 It's not just Christianity, but considering she grew up in a small town in North Carolina, I can certainly understand that Christianity would be the one that irritates her the most. I don't believe in the supernatural, but that doesn't prevent me from being annoyed by the kind of things that religious people either promote (the right-wing ones) or just pretend isn't there (the relatively moderate ones).
The God character in the Bible has always struck me as a real jerk. People like to pretend that Jesus (either the character or the historical person) was an unquestionably wonderful...
The God character in the Bible has always struck me as a real jerk. People like to pretend that Jesus (either the character or the historical person) was an unquestionably wonderful guy, but the character depicted in the gospels reminds me of modern cult leaders (except for his insistence on a simple, non-materialistic lifestyle). People who claim to be prophets (which is all that he actually claimed — he did not claim to be a god (or the son of god, or the Messiah, or whatever) are usually rather narcissistic..."God talks to ME, and only I know what he wants us to do, so the only Godly people are MY followers." That sort of thing.
Tori often changes her songs meanings and stories. Perhaps it's to make you think of your own interpretation. It just seems to me that more often that anything, god doesn't come through. Where is god when babies are murdered, women are raped, children are abused? "you always go when the wind blows" I think she's saying, god needs a woman to look after him, to keep him on the ball. But then she goes on to say "would you even tell her if you decide to make the sky?" Just like a man, would he ever answer to a woman? I think she's more telling god what's up. Because she's always found religion hard to swallow.
@andshedied love your interpretation, always felt just the same as youve shared about these lyric\'s meaning. This was THE song that caught me.. as is Florence and the Machine\'s recent \'BIG God" song as well. they pair quite nicely in tandem with a smokey whisky and deep cherry chocolate
@andshedied love your interpretation, always felt just the same as youve shared about these lyric\'s meaning. This was THE song that caught me.. as is Florence and the Machine\'s recent \'BIG God" song as well. they pair quite nicely in tandem with a smokey whisky and deep cherry chocolate
maybe this song really isn't about God at all. maybe this song is about a man in her life, probably her father, who she'd always looked up to and admired as God but then he let her down in some way, causing her to say that sometimes he just doesn't come through.
@shadows_fall This song definitely reminds me of my relationship with my father. It fits perfectly, in fact. I love that someone else saw the same thing.
@shadows_fall This song definitely reminds me of my relationship with my father. It fits perfectly, in fact. I love that someone else saw the same thing.
Well this song is pretty much about rejecting God and how the world is male-dominated and how the world is nothing but justice.
I'm also a Pagan and there isn't just a God, there's also a Goddess. We view our Creator as a whole Being not half... so I think Tori is also showing the imbalance in a one sided view.
I think this song has a feminist spin to it. Maybe it's saying that god is never there for all the atrocities that happen in the world, and also the fact that the world is still male-dominated, especially in the Christian world.
first off i really love tori amos. i came here to find some meaning in her songs. well, where i don't get it, tori said in rollingstone mag. that tihs song was supposed to be about god getting a blowjob. i don't know, it's just what i read.
@supernovajuice27 What was the date of the RS you read this in?
@supernovajuice27 What was the date of the RS you read this in?
I really like andshedied's interpretation. I feel the same way, and I can definitely relate to this song. Being raised in a catholic family, I always found religion very hard to swallow myself. Whenever bad things happen to good people, we often blame God, which is a completely understandable and human thing to do. I like Tori's line: "You make pretty daisies pretty daisies love. I gotta find what you're doing about things here", because God makes nature beautiful, but what about(as andshedied said)murder, rape, and abuse that people endure every single day? I think it's a terrific song that most everyone can relate to.
@SpaceyLover11 It seems to me that when good things happen to them, religious people claim that it is because God is on their side, but when bad things happen to them, it it because "God works in mysterious ways" or "God is testing our faith" or something like that.
@SpaceyLover11 It seems to me that when good things happen to them, religious people claim that it is because God is on their side, but when bad things happen to them, it it because "God works in mysterious ways" or "God is testing our faith" or something like that.
that is an interesting spin shadows fall, especially since her father was a Preacher or something like that. It gives a new spin to the song for me.