He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
This is your posse bonus
This is your extra
This is your posse bonus
Because I like you
This is your posse bonus
This is your extra
This is your posse bonus
Cause I like you
Because I like you
Cause I like you
Porcupine
Burrow your way
To freedom
This is your posse bonus
This is your extra
This is your posse bonus
Cause I like you
Eat your greens
Feed your head
Mind the doubts
They harvest them
Broccoli
Feed your head
Their ideas
Are fried in fat
This is your posse bonus
This is your extra
This is your posse bonus
Cause I like you
Because I like you
Cause I like you
Porcupine
Burrow your way
To freedom
You say that "you're not bothered
To lie beneath pigs
Then go on Laura
Here's a flower for your grave"
This is your posse bonus
This is your extra
This is your posse bonus
Cause I like you
I like you
I like you
This is your extra
This is your posse bonus
Because I like you
This is your posse bonus
This is your extra
This is your posse bonus
Cause I like you
Because I like you
Cause I like you
Porcupine
Burrow your way
To freedom
This is your posse bonus
This is your extra
This is your posse bonus
Cause I like you
Eat your greens
Feed your head
Mind the doubts
They harvest them
Broccoli
Feed your head
Their ideas
Are fried in fat
This is your posse bonus
This is your extra
This is your posse bonus
Cause I like you
Because I like you
Cause I like you
Porcupine
Burrow your way
To freedom
You say that "you're not bothered
To lie beneath pigs
Then go on Laura
Here's a flower for your grave"
This is your posse bonus
This is your extra
This is your posse bonus
Cause I like you
I like you
I like you
Lyrics submitted by stentorian
Posse Bonus Lyrics as written by Tori Ellen Amos
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
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Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
She has talked a lot in interviews regarding the release of ADP about the idea that the right wing in America today is using the people and how the establishment feeds people false ideas, and that the best way to combat that is to have your own belief system and alternative values strongly defined.
This song is light and playful and seems innocuous, but it's really the defining meaning of the whole ADP album in one song - it's the posse's message - burrow your way to freedom through the BS that is being fed us through the media and politics, feed your head (be smart, find out the truth for yourself, inform yourself), "mind your doubts, they harvst them" - this means to be careful because right wing fanatics will literally harvest your doubts in order to plant hate or fear in your mind, playing on your doubts.
I also think the blatant reference to Laura is amusing.