Tori Songs

The Book of Tori Songs

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100. 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.

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99.
"In Weatherman, he loves his bride so much... and she dies. He can't move on. That's how true and deep his love is. Nature itself not just pities him, but decides to bring his wife back to life by painting her through the seasons."

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98.
It talks about Rome ending B.C. & then A.D. & the idea of what was supposed to happen at zero point. I found there to be a strange correlation between America being the super power that it is & Rome being the super power that it was & what comes along with that kind of power.

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97.

do this long enough
you get a taste for it. #CodeRed #tori100

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96.
I am drinking the 1843 Freedom Shiraz as I write these thoughts. Synchronicity is what I live for. More poetic than the religious mantra, "a miracle" synchronicity is the true music of the Universe, thoughts harmonizing with matter. Ideas and actions. Union. {"Clyde speaks"}

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95.
For him, the end justified the means. But although she believes in the cause, she can't load the gun... It's about what you believe in and how far you're prepared to go.

{Scarlet's Walk bio, Sweet Sangria}

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94.

We are the robin's muse
and we will sing for you: lift up your head,
lift up your heart.

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93.

We have the shattering of a relationship -- yet there's a much bigger crisis looming that she has to understand, and that understanding will help her in her own life. The story needed to involve her having a transformation in a very short period of time, from dusk to dawn.

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92.

see the city, see the city now, rejected
kiss the pavement that you thought had you protected
she'll be down when the mountain lets her go her way
she'll be down when the mountain lets her go

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91.

"I lost a brother this year, and it has been difficult. It was such a shock because he died in an automobile accident. I don't think there is an acceptance yet. I put some of if in the music, and that's how I'm always able to work through emotions."

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"When you think you're invincible, fireproof, however you want to say that; then you get careless. Even though you have the strongest army in the world, when you're careless, you can destroy everything."

PopMatters 2014, Matt Mazur interview of Tori Amos

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89.

through the year
on the medicine wheel
call me back
trap me in between
somewhere West
somewhere South

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88.

Through the looking glass, Ruby sees
things in you --
things in me.
She won't wanna be
just a little light
turning the key.

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87.

Wildwood is a story of Persephone's return from the underworld.

We're seeing the word *freedom* being harnessed by U.S. oligarchs and authoritarians.

The force behind Native Invader has been to reinvade these words...

Freedom is sovereignty.

| C.O.S., September 2017 |

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86.

I think Crazy provides, yes, stability. He's consistent and he's quite understanding of madness. He's not afraid of it, and he's in control of it. I think in a way that's very seductive to Scarlet at this time.

{Scarlet Stories}

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85.

I just said, "You know what? Fuck that. I'm going to take to the sky, and all I have to do is be true to the muses. That is all I'm going to do from now forward." So the song was my prayer, and my answer to the music industry.

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84.

A hole opens sometimes that I fall through a bit like the madhatter. I lived 20 different lifetimes from birth through death during the writing of this song.

When I looked up from the piano and at the clock, thinking I was late for someone, it had only been 8 minutes.

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83.

Do you ever feel like you walk in a room, and you're so uncomfortable you're crawling out of your skin?

That's in Concertina, when you feel like you haven't excavated enough of your different personalities that when one pops up...you try to hack it out of yourself.

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82.

The remark "I once knew a hot girl" is painful. Where's she gone? The idea is to rescue myself from the role of a victim. That I have a choice left. I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up. That's the thought behind the phrase "I smell the roses"

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what we do in them will affect the next generation in such a complete way. It doesn't mean there's not time for giggles or anything else, you can do that. It is something that grabs her and shakes her and holds her and says,

'Do you know where you stand as you walk?'