Sure that star can twinkle
And you're watching it do
Boy so hard boy so hard
But I know a girl
Twice as hard
And I'm sure
Said I'm sure she's watching it too
No matter what she's got in her right dresser
Tied
I know she's watching that star

Gonna twinkle
Gonna twinkle
Gonna twinkle

And last time I knew
She worked at an Abbey in Iona
She said "I killed a man T
I've gotta stay hidden in this Abbey"
But I can see that star
When she twinkles
And she twinkles
And I sure can
That means
I sure can

That means
I sure can
So hard
So hard


Lyrics submitted by merchantpierce

Twinkle Lyrics as written by Tori Ellen Amos

Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing

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    "Yet the record isn't finished until Twinkle; it just wasn't finished until that song. That level of the flame, feeding the flame, because after all the stars, the fire, I had to go into that place of becoming that instead of trying to find it again."

    merchantpierceon May 04, 2002   Link
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    the last remnants of feminity in a fast male dominated world is reduced to a distant twinkle of a fading star...

    MGondryon October 16, 2004   Link
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    Exactly. There's always hope even in the worst of times, "no matter what she's got in her right dresser tied... i know she's watching that star"

    burning_bridgeson May 23, 2005   Link
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    watch this and see youtube.com/watch

    Mordakon September 16, 2006   Link
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    That video is great ^ even though someone's composed different lines. Thanks for posting it Mordak.

    Poetic_Mystiqueon January 13, 2007   Link
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    Twinkle is hope. It's the end of Boys For Pele, an angry, break-up album, a very feminist album. She's looking at a girl, saying a girl can shine just as hard as anything else in the world. It does soung like a sad song, but I've always though of it as very positive. Boys For Pele is a journey, and this is the end, the resolution, the new beginning

    missmeon April 15, 2007   Link
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    I can always appreciate Tori Amos' music. She lets us into the dark so we can see the light. @ Mordak Thanks for posting the link. Sparked some musings of my own

    spectaculavenaculaandsoseculaon November 13, 2009   Link

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