Strange Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Torichamp 

Cover art for Strange lyrics by Tori Amos

Tori Amos songs have touched me deeply and have spoken to me directly for years. I didn't get the message she was telling me. She gave me the courage to leave an abusive relationship and I wanted so badly to be loved that I went right into another relationship without allowing myself to heal. He was not an abuser but he was verbally abusive in some ways. This song is about our relationship. Particularly "So I left my life tried on your friends tried on your point of view" I tried to be everything he wanted me to be loosing myself in the process.

Woke up to a world that I am not a part except when I can play it's stranger" I woke up and realized I had to leave but....I couldn't. I stayed on and on until he had a stroke and I was forced to put him in a nursing home. Even though I knew it wasn't healthy I stayed and years later I feel guilty for abandoning him. So when the Bridges froze and you did not come home I put our snowflake under a microscope He drank every single night, didn't come home, didn't call. We lived in a wintry area and I imagined him dead in a ditch night after night and over analyzed our relationship putting it under a microscope. Looking forward to Unrepentant Geraldines, maybe the answer will be in there.

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