This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Icicle icicle
Where are you going
Where are you going
Icicle icicle
Where are you going
I have a hiding place
When spring marches in
Will you keep watch for me
I hear them calling
Gonna lay down
Gonna lay down
Greeting the monster in our Easter dresses
Father says bow your head like the good book says
Well I think the good book is missing some pages
Gonna lay down
Gonna lay down
And when my hand touches myself
I can finally rest my head
And when they say take of his body
I think I'll take from mine instead
Getting off
Getting off
While they're all downstairs
Singing prayers
Sing away
He's in my pumpkin P.J.'s
Lay your book on my chest
Feel the word
Feel the word
Feel the word
Feel the word
Feel the word
Feel it
I could have
I should have
I could have flown you know
I could have
I should have
I didn't so
Icicle icicle
Where are you going
I have a hiding place
When spring marches in
Will you keep watch for me
I hear them calling
Gonna lay down
Gonna lay down
Lay down
I'm gonna lay down
Where are you going
Where are you going
Icicle icicle
Where are you going
I have a hiding place
When spring marches in
Will you keep watch for me
I hear them calling
Gonna lay down
Gonna lay down
Greeting the monster in our Easter dresses
Father says bow your head like the good book says
Well I think the good book is missing some pages
Gonna lay down
Gonna lay down
And when my hand touches myself
I can finally rest my head
And when they say take of his body
I think I'll take from mine instead
Getting off
Getting off
While they're all downstairs
Singing prayers
Sing away
He's in my pumpkin P.J.'s
Lay your book on my chest
Feel the word
Feel the word
Feel the word
Feel the word
Feel the word
Feel it
I could have
I should have
I could have flown you know
I could have
I should have
I didn't so
Icicle icicle
Where are you going
I have a hiding place
When spring marches in
Will you keep watch for me
I hear them calling
Gonna lay down
Gonna lay down
Lay down
I'm gonna lay down
Lyrics submitted by Novartza, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Icicle Lyrics as written by Tori Ellen Amos
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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One of my real favorites! Winter's leaving & fragile icicles are melting... Tori's always had (& probably has still) interesting discussions about the bible with her father (a priest!). She had a special view on the religion "stuff". "The book surely misses some pages" - just think about the three Eves (nevermind...)! Kind of unconventional to masturbate, when the other's are at mass... But then again: no taboos! I love that line:
"he's in my pumpkin p.j's lay your book on my chest feel the word feel the word feel the word feel it" --> Intense!
"he's in my pumpkin p.j's<br /> lay your book on my chest<br /> feel the word<br /> feel the word<br /> feel the word<br /> feel it" <br /> <br /> What do you think she is saying exactly? Sorry...I love Tori, but a lot of it just goes way over my head haha.
I think someone caught her masturbating and they are trying to "exercise the demons" by laying the bible on her chest and telling her to feel the word of god