Baker Baker

"Baker Baker is kind of tragic in a way, because -- I've had to look at how I treated men, and on this record, I think with Baker Baker, to deal with a man that truly loved me, but that I wasn't emotionally available for. You know how women always say men aren't emotionally available. Well, a lot of women aren't emotionally available. It's like, if you're vulnerable, we say, 'Look, we need you to be sensitive.' So you become sensitive, and yet we go, 'You've got no f***in' backbone,' and we kick you in the face and run off with a ski trainer." [Tori Amos, The Baltimore Sun, '94]

I love the fact that this song is a kind of prayer. Baker Baker referring to her concept of God or whatever. A prayer to acknowledge her acceptance that it is over, accepting the part she played and her inability to love at the time. Story of my life.

I love the line about making friends with time, like the feeling would pass, and yet she has to admit that she is still not over it. 'time is not a healer, time is no friend of mine'. Lyric from my own song.

It is a beautiful song. She couldn't return his feelings "I ran from him in all kinds of ways...guess it was his turn this time." She stayed hoping in time, she'd grow to return the love, but in reality, he wised up and she misses what could have been, had it been meant to be.

.....for me..this song its about..rejecting someone who didnt deserved it..and someone whos so much better than what he seems..its about someone who helped her..and made her believe again..yet she wasnt able to be with him..the way he wanted..but she knows who much he's worth...she cant be with him...but she wishes she could.. we all get the same situation..at least once in a lifetime.. pushin away all the good things..just cuz we cant handle something so amezin its almost unreal..and the fear of losing that later in the road..makes us push them away,run away..and create emotional walls.. it sucks i know=/

I think this song illustrates absentedmindedness if that is a word. Like when you are having relationship problems and you're at work and you just have to push them back into the boundaries of your mind. But those type of thoughts will never cease. They always creep back in and I think that's what this song is about. Baker, baker baking a cake. Make me whole again.

She misses him so much, it's like a part of her has been taken away. She knows he's not coming back, and that makes her situation all the more heartrending. She wonders how he's doing ("and I wonder if he's okay/if you see him say hi"). She can't believe that he doesn't feel anything. Just the tone in which this song is sung tells you volumes.

A beautiful song. Simply put.

this song is so beautiful its one of my favorites...i interpret it as a song from a woman with emotional problems, trying to find herself, etc, and who's just been left in a relationship, and the baker baker is a good guy friend, generally a stronger person, who's kind of always been there for her to look after her ("i know you're late for your next parade, you came to make sure that i'm not running") and take care of her, who she runs to to lean on. a very heartbreaking song.

Beautiful, this has always been my favorite Tori song, I saw her sing it live and it was amazing, even my boyfriend who is not too into Tori was amazed at the emotion that comes out of this song... it's just stunning.

I think the baker person is her psychiatrist or something. Someone who helps her with dealing with her pain and her personal development during there sessions (and I wonder what's in a day what's in your cake this time).