Tori Amos Lyrics

What's it gonna take?
Til my baby's alright?
What's it gonna take?

Those angels can't ever take my place.

Will we pay for who we've been?

This is not really happening--
You bet your life it is.

But, what if I'm a mermaid in these jeans of his with her name still on it?

All the way to New York--
I can feel the distance getting close.

You always felt like suede.

Show me the ways to get back to the garden.

I loved his secret places,
but I can't go anymore.

Why am I here if love isn't forever?

We'll see how brave you are.
we'll see how fast you'll be running.
we'll see how brave you are.

Get out of my garden.

But, I believe in peace
I believe in peace, bitch.

I'm aware what the rules are, but you know that I will run.

I knew then it would be a lifelong sort of thing.

So, you found a girl
who thinks really deep thoughts.
What's so amazing about really deep thoughts?

Maybe a bright sandy beach is gonna bring you back.

And I rode along side you until you lost me there in the open road.

Rabbit-- where'd you put the keys, girl?

Yes, my loyalties turned
like my ankle
in the seventh grade
running after Billy,
running after the rain.

He moved like the sunset.
God, who painted that?

Breadcrumbs lost under the snow.

There's nothing we cannot ever fix, I said.

Can't forget the things you never said.

You sign Prince of Darkness,
try Squire of Dimness.

I don't need much to keep me warm.

Brothers and lovers she and I were,
Now she seems to be sand under his shoes.

She said she knew what my books did not.

I almost ran over an angel.
He had a nice big fat cigar.
"In a sense," he said, "You're alone here.
So, if you jump, you best jump far."

Maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen.

I'm much stronger than you know.
Sometimes,
I'm not afraid to let it show.

But, I only can see myself
skating around the truth who I am.
But I know, Dad, the ice is getting thin.

You say you packed my things,
And divided what was mine,
you're off to the mountain top.
I say her skinny legs could use sun.

Rest your shoulders, Peaches and Cream.
Everywhere a Judas as far as you can see.

Tell me you're crazy.
Maybe then I'll understand.

We scream in catherdrals:
Why can't it be beautiful?
Why does there gotta be a sacrifice?

In your eyes I saw the future together.
You just look away in the distance.

Make me laugh:
say you know what you want.

You said you'd find me,
but I can't see New York.

I'm trying not to move,
it's just your ghost passing through.

How could I resist?
You are desire.
When all is said and done,
who can love you and still be standing?

I thought you'd see with me,
you wouldn't have to be something new.

Maybe you never learned to take.

I never saw a light move like yours.

And you would if I would,
but you never would.

You just lift your lamp, and I will follow.

I have to get to Texas,
said I have to get to Texas,
and I'll give away my blue blue dress.

In the lush Virginia hills,
they kept her as long as they could.

In the garden,
I did no crime.

Things are getting desperate
when all the boys can't be men.

She may beytray all that she loves.

It's funny the things that you find in the rain.

I got the anti-Christ in the kitchen yelling at me again.

And I thought
with you
I wouldn't have to be
a magazine.

Oh Virginia,
do you remember
when the land held your hand?

I was built to tolerate your temperature.

I shaved every place where you'd been, boy.

Come along now little darling.
we'll see how brave you are.

Cutting my hands up every time I touch you.

Everybody looking at you,
Here, take ahold of my hand.
Yeah, I can hear them.

Love, it's one of life's complications.
I did not ask for this:
Oh, but love-- yes, you did.


I put my hand in my father's glove.
I run off
where the drifts get deeper.

My dark twin,
the annihilating Feminine,
does not need
civilizing.

Boys on my left side,
Boys on my right side,
Boys in the middle
and you're not here.

Don't tell me a woman did this to you.

Boy, your boots can leave a mess.

I guess I didn't want to notice,
the stars gone from your eyes.

She's been everybody else's girl.
Maybe one day she'll be her own.

I can fight by your side and withstand anything.

I guessed the kind of man
that you would turn out to be.

Purple sunset, orange moon.

Yes, I know what you think of me--
you never shut-up.
Yeah, I can hear that.

I believe in defending what we once stood for.

I have to trust you'll know
this digital ghost.

Victory is an elusive whore.
She is as easily mine
as she is yours.

The wind is making speeches,
and the rain sounds like a round of applause.

I wonder when will I learn
blue isn't red.
Everybody knows this.

And you losing you
was not a part of this plan.

Slip and slide my way through this charade.

What will be, will be
over my dead body.

What you stole, I would have given freely.

A six pack of coke and a bottle of Jack.
"Whatever you do," he said, "look after that."

Figures that my courage would choose to sell out now.

Jodie wears a hat although it hasn't rained for six days.
She says a girl needs a gun these days.

Got enough guilt to start my own religion.

Last time I checked,
He came to light the lamp for everyone.

Just what God needs,
one more victim.

And my heart is sick of being in chains.

He says, Will you ever learn--
You're just an empty cage, girl,
if you kill the bird.

Butterflies don't belong in nets.

It's kind of funny things you think
at times like these.
Like, I haven't seen Barbados
so I must get out of this.