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Where the river cross
Crosses the lake
Where the words
Jump off my pen
And into your pages
Do you think
Just like that
You can divide
This you as yours
Me as mine to
Before we were us
If the rain has to separate
From itself
Does it say "pick out your cloud?"
Pick out your cloud
If there is
A horizontal line
That runs from the map
Off your body
Straight through the land
Shooting up
Right through my heart
Will this horizontal line
When asked
Know how to find
Where you end
Where I begin
"Pick out your cloud"
How light can play
And form a ring of rain
That can change bows into arrows
(I found a thrill)
Who we were isn't lost
Before we were us
Indigo in his own
Blue always knew this
If the rain
Has to separate
From itself
Does it say pick out your cloud
Crosses the lake
Where the words
Jump off my pen
And into your pages
Do you think
Just like that
You can divide
This you as yours
Me as mine to
Before we were us
If the rain has to separate
From itself
Does it say "pick out your cloud?"
Pick out your cloud
If there is
A horizontal line
That runs from the map
Off your body
Straight through the land
Shooting up
Right through my heart
Will this horizontal line
When asked
Know how to find
Where you end
Where I begin
"Pick out your cloud"
How light can play
And form a ring of rain
That can change bows into arrows
(I found a thrill)
Who we were isn't lost
Before we were us
Indigo in his own
Blue always knew this
If the rain
Has to separate
From itself
Does it say pick out your cloud
Lyrics submitted by merchantpierce
Your Cloud Lyrics as written by Tori Ellen Amos
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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@berryswirl thanks a lot for this bit of information! i would have never thought of this interpretation myself and it's nice to know what tori originally meant with the song. i'll add my own thoughts on the song, although they differ from tori's intention quite a bit.
to me, 'your cloud' always was about divorce. i've never been through something like that but it describes what i imagine a divorce must feel like (at least to the party that didn't initiate it). (which isn't all that different from what berryswirl wrote, i think. seperating people from their land is a bit like a forced divorce as well... well, let's carry on)
"do you think just like that you can divide this? you as yours, me as mine, to before we were us?" that's what the narrator asks his or her ex-partner in my interpretation. "do you think you can just sign a few papers and everything will be back to before we decided to make our seperate lives one? to before we make 'me' and 'you' 'us'?" because to him or her it still feels like an 'us'. (i'll just stick with a her for now) and she can't understand how he can walk around in the house and be like "this is my chair, this is your desk, which of the paintings do you want to keep?". to her this 'us' can't be separated, like rain does not separate from itself by saying "pick out your cloud".
i never fully understood the part about the horizontal line. but i always felt like it was something similar to what i already wrote: there is no defined place where she ends and he begins. and that's why she feels like it's impossible to just cut their lives apart in one place.
the second verse was always about healing, in my opinion. because she remembers that her original self, the woman that she was before she merged with him, isn't lost. it's like together they were 'blue', which is one and can't be split if you don't look too closely. but if you look closely you see that they are still seperate beings. perhaps she is 'indigo' and he is 'ultramarine' or something like that. i always felt that perhaps this thought helps her a little by making her see that she can still be herself, even though he's no longer there. even though she's not used to being someone that isn't one with him.
so well. in the end my interpretation turned out pretty differently from the native americans-thing that tori wanted to say with the song. but still ... ;-)