"Native Invader" (2017)

• Reindeer King lyrics - Tori Amos
• Wings lyrics - Tori Amos
• Broken Arrow lyrics - Tori Amos
• Cloud Riders lyrics - Tori Amos
• Up The Creek lyrics - Tori Amos
• Breakaway lyrics - Tori Amos
• Wildwood lyrics - Tori Amos
• Chocolate Song lyrics - Tori Amos
• Bang lyrics - Tori Amos
• Climb lyrics - Tori Amos
• Bats lyrics - Tori Amos
• Benjamin lyrics - Tori Amos

Reindeer King lyrics - Tori Amos

Crystal core
Your mind has been divided from your soul
Now you say you are that stranger on your shore
Grief it brings need the naked freeze caught in the frost
Numb unbearable thoughts your inner need fire not lost
No way
Not lost

I've just come from the Reindeer King
He says, "your purity of soul, crystalline"
Gotta get you back to you
Get you back to you
You gotta get you back to you
Get you back to you
You
You
You
You
You

Crystal core
You are at the still point of the turning world
The divide fearing death desiring life
Ice you were the one most tender with the rivers
You the roof of the waves layer after layer
After layer

I've just come from the Reindeer King
He says, "your purity of soul, crystalline"
Gotta get you back to you
Get you back to you
You gotta get you back to you
Get you back to you

You know that I would skate
Skate all the way just to hold your hand
To take away your pain
You know that I would skate
From Scandinavia
All the way to the moons of Jupiter

With you
You
You
You
You
Gotta get you back to you
Get you back to you
You gotta get you back to you
Get you back to you
You gotta get you back to you
Get you back to you
You gotta get you back to you
Get you back to you

I've just come from the Reindeer King

Wings lyrics - Tori Amos

You've been suffering
Hiding your pain
Unshed tears on the edge
"Just water under the bridge" you say

Is it too late
To make myself
A safe place
I could not see
The dangers
The sacrifices
You were making

Hurt you
Hurt me
Hurt you
Never meant to hurt you
Hurt me
I need
To make myself
A safe place
For you
To cry baby
Cause sometimes
Big boys they need to cry

So we built you some wings
To help you to flee
From your demanding
Dark Angel
And me

Is it too late
To make myself
A safe place
I went too far
When we flew too close
To our star

It hurt you
Hurt me
Hurt you
Never meant to hurt you
Hurt me
I need
To make myself
A safe place
For you
To cry baby
To cry baby
Cause sometimes
Big boys they need to cry
Cause sometimes
Big boys they need to cry

Broken Arrow lyrics - Tori Amos

This broken arrow needs heeding
When great white fathers
Your mistress is inequality

Rash and reckless
Won't get us
To where we want to be
Are we emancipators or oppressors
Of lady liberty?

Have we lost her
Have we lost her
Have we lost her

This broken arrow needs heeding
When great white fathers
Our poisoned rivers feed your greed

Rash and reckless
Won't get us
To where we want to be
Ancient songlines are singing to wake
Lady liberty

She may seem weak
We may be battle weary
Still those songlines sing
From our Great Lakes
To our sacred Badlands
Over sweet prairies

No I'm not letting go
I won't be silenced or frozen out
By those who must account
In our Senate
And in the House

We the people
Dear judges
Will be watching

Over you
Over you

Have we lost her
Have we lost her

This broken arrow needs heeding

Cloud Riders lyrics - Tori Amos

Standing on the edge of the cliff
Didn't think it would come to this
A dead calm before the storm
Not a sound from their engines
From the other side, saw a shooting star at 4:22am

A warning shot from the rhythm demons
Or from the guitar preachers
I've been touched by both
And by the Holy Ghost
From the other side, saw a shooting star at 4:22am

Underneath the stars above
I said, "No, stop I am not giving up on us"
And I am not going anywhere soon
Annie, grab your bass guitar
Help me bring in the October moon
Then you shout, "Run for cover"
I scream, "Rev the Triumph's engine"
You say "Baby we're too late
From the cloud riders, no escape"
Darlin', what's the blanket for?
Riding out this storm
We'll be riding out this storm

Carved a stave against the grain
At the nine doors to gain
The secrets of trees
Once I could hear them singing
From the other side

Back then, the thunder gods
They used to cast our lots
But then I lost touch
Close to when her chariot
From the other side

A chariot pulled by cats
Purring, "We'll be returning"
From the other side
"Girl, it's time you take back your life"

Underneath the stars above
I said, "No, stop I am not giving up on us"
And I am not going anywhere soon
Annie, grab your bass guitar
Help me bring in the October moon
Then you shout, "Run for cover"
I scream, "Rev the Triumph's engine"
You say "Baby we're too late
From the cloud riders, no escape"
Darlin', what's the blanket for?
Riding out this storm
We'll be riding out this storm

This storm
This storm
This storm
This storm

Up The Creek lyrics - Tori Amos

Good Lord willing and the creek don't rise
Good Lord willing and the creek don't rise
Good Lord willing and the creek don't rise

We may just survive
If the Militia of the Mind
Arm against those climate blind

Desert Sisters
I'll be breaking in
Desert Sisters
To break you out

Knowledge sown in Gaia's bones
Knowledge sown in Gaia's bones

Granite canyon webs of stone
Her uncorrupted soul
Will not be possessed or owned

Gone, when hope is almost gone
You know that's the time we must stand
Strong, every girl in every band
Every cosmic cowboy in the land
To the Earth will you show mercy?

Good Lord willing and the creek don't rise
Good Lord willing and the creek don't rise

We may just survive
If the Militia of the Mind
Arm against those climate blind

Desert Sisters
I'll be breaking in
Desert Sisters
To break you out

Desert Sisters
I'll be breaking in
Desert Sisters
To break you out

Good Lord willing and the creek don't rise
Good Lord willing and the creek don't rise
Good Lord willing and the creek don't rise

Breakaway lyrics - Tori Amos

No I don't expect
You to forgive me this
Siding with the soldiers who say
We cannot win the day
A theatre of war the frame
Inner conflicts now reign
Their intent: division till
There is no side to take

You feel betrayed
I feel played
By our so called friends
Not the friends we should have made

So when the story ends
And the stage goes dark
And we both can hear
The writing on the wall
Then I beg the bard
To write another scene
Because you're the one
Who taught me to believe
There is something more
That I need to say
I should have said it though
I should have said it though
Before yesterday
Before your breakaway

This jungle is dark
But full of diamonds
That can cut and exploit
With just a whiff of blood
"Faith in spades" in us
So what were the odds
Our hand of hearts would have to fold
To their flush of clubs

You've been betrayed
And I've been played
At least they made me exit
Through their chopper on the stage

So when the story ends
And the stage goes dark
And we all can hear
The writing on the wall
Then I beg the bard
To write another scene
Because he's the one
Who taught me to believe
There is nothing more
That I need to say
I should have said it though
I should have said it though
Before yesterday
Before your breakaway

Wildwood lyrics - Tori Amos

Wildwood
Poppies
Wildwood
Touch me

Behind the birches whirl
The bongo boys in their summoning
The sound seeds now
In the fingers of the eastern breeze
Where the sleepless wait
For her ascent from the perilous pit
She said "The only way to change our fate
It is to make it rain"

Wildwood
Poppies
Wildwood
Touch me

Past the Alders and the Oaks
Through the Willow Grove snakes the Ivy's gift
Which taught you can't escape anguish
But how to live with it
Then reports from the robins
Form in you an inner radiance
It's as if they fused with a spirit you knew
Who's come back again

Wildwood
Poppies
Wildwood
Touch me

Off the pilgrim's path
With the talisman he placed in my hands
With its magic mapped from winter's past
It leads the way
After 3 long months endured with her absent
Over dragon lines we walked the current
A labyrinth
With little green corn shoots
Now in abundance
As the forest celebrates
She says "Make it rain
Wildwood
Poppies
Wildwood
Touch me
Touch me again"

Chocolate Song lyrics - Tori Amos

I don't have to like the things you say sometimes
Then I don't like the things I say
Now vows and consonants our weaponry
We vowed to love eternally

And I hear your pain screaming
And I hear your pain
In the silent evenings
We used to be happy
We used to make happy
On the stove
On our own

Satiny luscious chocolate
I don't hate you
I don't hate you
Satiny luscious chocolate
No, I need to be more like you
Satiny luscious chocolate
Within the tension of your opposites
Satiny luscious chocolate
Somehow the lingering sweetness
Satiny luscious chocolate
Without betraying your bitterness
Satiny luscious chocolate
I don't hate you
I don't hate you
Satiny luscious chocolate

I don't have to like swinging from extremes
The lows so low, the highs so high
From throwing knives to dessert stirring
Our tight rope act just balancing

And I hear your pain screaming at me
Hear your pain screaming
We used, used to be
We used to make happy
We used to make, make happy

Satiny luscious chocolate
I don't hate you
I don't hate you
Satiny luscious chocolate
No, I need to be more like you
Satiny luscious chocolate
Within the tension of your opposites
Satiny luscious chocolate
Somehow the lingering sweetness
Satiny luscious chocolate
Without betraying your bitterness
Satiny luscious chocolate
I don't hate you
I don't hate you
Satiny luscious chocolate
I don't hate you
I don't hate you

Hear your pain screaming
We used to make happy
We used to make, make happy
In a cauldron on our stove
I feel fire, sweet water
We used to make, make happy
We used to make happy

Bang lyrics - Tori Amos

Bang went the gun on their tongue
Word crucifixion toward immigrants shunned
"Immigrants that's who we all are
'Cause we're all made of stars"
You said to them
Oh yes you did

Bang went the universe
Hydrogen lusting for Helium's burst
A mighty Sun's Dance of Death
Exploding Super Nova
One story's end
Seeds another to begin

Then the Heavens opened
And then I heard voices
Joined in Hosannas
Breathlessly I saw your star

So bright it blinded me
I had to shield my eyes
So bright it blinded me
I had to shield my eyes
So bright it blinded me
I had to shield my eyes

And then you took my hand
Oh yes you did

Bang the world now traumatized
By a cluster of hostile humans who side
With their warlords of hate
So we must out-create
With the the Backbone of Night
To Rehumanize

Then the Heavens opened
And then I heard voices
Joined in Hosannas
And their tower of confusion
Could not drown the light
From your star

So bright it blinded me
I had to shield my eyes
So bright it blinded me
I had to shield my eyes
So bright it blinded me
I had to shield my eyes

And then you lit the path
Oh yes you did

"Can't they see"
He said to me
"That we all
Are Molecular Machines"
Goals and dreams
All I wanna be
Is the very best
Machine I can be

Oxygen and Carbon
Part of
Our Molecular Machine
Goals and dreams
All I wanna be
Is the very best
Machine I can be

Hydrogen
Calcium
Phosphorus
Potassium
Sulfur
Sodium
All I wanna be
Is the very best
Machine I can be

Chlorine
Magnesium
Boron
Chromium
Cobalt
Copper
Fluorine
All I wanna be
Is the very best
Machine I can be

Iodine
Iron
Manganese
Molybdenum
Selenium
Silicon
Tin
Vanadium
And Zinc
All I wanna be
A Molecular Machine

Climb lyrics - Tori Amos

"Climb over the church wall" he said
"You can feed the koi in the pond
Climb over the church wall in your Sunday dress
Be sure to feed the koi in the pond"
It's a long long climb going back in time

All of me wants to be... believe
That the angels will find me Saint Veronica
All of me wants to be... believe
That somehow you will save me Saint Veronica

He said "Kneel before your judges in reverence
Your penance for the woman you'll become
You knew if you talked there'd be a consequence
Your sentence for the woman you'll become"
Ten days of hell in Satan's cell

All of me wants to be... believe
That the angels will find me Saint Veronica
All of me wants to be... believe
That somehow you will save me Saint Veronica

Dream of dimensions
Then cross through the veil to them
Wrap yourself in linen holding Jesus close
Calling Saint
Calling Saint
Saint Veronica

"Climb out of the belly of the beast" she said
"Become a witness out of the abyss
The temple of the soul will have to heal the flesh
Only when you're whole can you forgive
But it's a long long climb
It's a long long climb"

Bats lyrics - Tori Amos

If you see three candles in the window
Been expecting you Undine of the Sea
The Kindly Ones are here with me
Undine of the Sea keep breathing girl

Got a bat visiting
On a break from teaching
At William and Mary
You've asked his expertise
About the deal the ancient
Sea maids made with humanity

Warning "The most precious thing
That we'll fight to save
The fate of our waves
With her blue satin crashing"

If you see three candles in the window
Been expecting you Undine of the Sea
The Kindly Ones are here with me
Undine of the Sea keep breathing girl

You say the bats are wise
And once had prophesied
What fate... if betrayed by human kind
Yes dripped in mist sisters rise
Quietly from the fens and marshes
All for the love of our dearest friend
It now begins

If you see three candles in the window
Been expecting you Undine of the Sea
The Kindly Ones are here with me
Undine of the Sea
The Kindly Ones are here with me
Undine of the Sea
Undine of the Sea
Undine of the Sea keep breathing girl

Benjamin lyrics - Tori Amos

Benjamin
Science whiz
My computer bat friend
Tell me where
Tell me when
I'll meet you ninja Ben

At the back of the record store
With tapes you secured
Prove the extent of their viciousness
As they purge our scientists
My computer bat hunts for facts

Campaigns
Funded by
The fossil fuel industry
How many of us
Will they own
To give them global mastery

Sucking hydrocarbon from the ground
Those pimps in Washington
Are selling the rape of America
As they attack Juliana

Now there is no avoiding
Necessity resurrecting herself
And her daughters
Who will never be bought
Not by the gods
Not by the men on the hill
Thread of life
Measured quick
Spin then
Snip

Benjamin
Science whiz
My computer bat friend
Tell me where
Tell me when
I'll meet you ninja Ben
Tell me where
Tell me when
I'm in your army Ben

Mary's Eyes lyrics - Tori Amos

What's behind Mary's Eyes
Mary's Eyes
Mary's Eyes

The Death Midwife
Can you bring her back to life
The Death Midwife
Can you bring her back to life

Sister Despair
Sister Despair
Can you bring the Dream King to me
Sister Despair
Hide your tears around Mary
We've got to get her to
Joy to The World
Joy to The World

Hymns for us to sing
She's a believer
Hymns locked in her memory
I'm a believer they're the key

What's behind Mary's Eyes
Patterns matter
Stringing sequences together matters
To bring, bring her back to us

What's behind Mary's Eyes
Mary's Eyes
Mary's Eyes

The Death Midwife
Can you bring her back to life

Sister Despair
Sister Despair
She must not see you cry
Hide your tears
Can't we just bring her Delight

Hymns for us to sing
She's a believer
Hymns locked in her memory
I'm a believer they're the key

What's behind Mary's Eyes
What's behind Mary's Eyes
Mary's Eyes
Mary's Eyes
Mary

Upside Down 2 lyrics - Tori Amos

Watch the boats go by
And someone else's life
Those smiling faces
We've worn them before
Watch the boats go by
No that is not our life
Not today
Not today
Some things work out that way

I'm not gonna be angry
Lately seems like everything
Is falling down
All around
Us
We gotta turn that frown
We gotta turn that frown
Upside Down

Those smiling faces
We've worn them before
Watch the boats go by
No that is not our life
Not today
Not today
Some things work out that way

I'm not gonna be angry
Lately seems like everything
Is falling down
All around
Us

We gotta turn that frown
We gotta turn that frown
Upside Down
Upside Down

Russia lyrics - Tori Amos

For those on the Right
You need to build a bridge
For those on the Left
You must build a bridge
For those in Washington
There is only one question

Is Stalin on your shoulder
Stalin on your shoulder
As he was with his composers

Time to wake
Activate our Native Invader
Warriors of the Earth
It's getting late now
Time to face
Those who take
More and more
From our Great Mother
The Mother we call home

Is Stalin on your shoulder

"Unrepentant Geraldines" (2014)

• America lyrics - Tori Amos
• Trouble's Lament lyrics - Tori Amos
• Wild Way lyrics - Tori Amos
• Wedding Day lyrics - Tori Amos
• Weatherman lyrics - Tori Amos
• 16 Shades Of Blue lyrics - Tori Amos
• Maids Of Elfen-Mere lyrics - Tori Amos
• Promise lyrics - Tori Amos
• Giant's Rolling Pin lyrics - Tori Amos
• Selkie lyrics - Tori Amos
• Unrepentant Geraldines lyrics - Tori Amos
• Oysters lyrics - Tori Amos
• Rose Dover lyrics - Tori Amos
• Invisible Boy lyrics - Tori Amos
• Forest Of Glass lyrics - Tori Amos
• White Telephone To God lyrics - Tori Amos
• Dixie lyrics - Tori Amos

America lyrics - Tori Amos

The other America
You can find her Sunday
Sitting by a stream
On her own
All alone

The other America
Might show up on Tuesday
At your kitchen door
She will ask politely
"Is anybody home?

Or did they all lay down
To sleep through the now?
And if they all lay down
I'll be waiting for them
At the river bed
Once they wake from their rest"

The other America
Takes herself to night school
To understand the law
She may bring you questions
When she finds the flaw

"Why did they all lay down
To sleep through the now?
And if they all lay down
I'll be waiting for them
At the river bed
Once they wake from their rest"

We could be opening a doorway globally
But that's okay
Once upon a time you had faith
You would not be swayed
By fools untouched by clairvoyance
And you swore that we'd be brave
Well not today
No not today

Because we all lay down
To sleep through the now
And if we all lay down
She'll be waiting for us
Where the rivers cross
Once we wake from our rest

"All the best," the Other America

Trouble's Lament lyrics - Tori Amos

Trouble needs a home girls,
trouble needs a home.
She fell out with Satan,
now she’s on the run.
But I have found her quite straightforward
in her contracts and her deals
she warns me when Danger is
loose behind his wheels
and he is loose behind his wheels.
Don’t cry baby...

Trouble got evicted,
from the Devil’s lair.
I wager she got betrayed
by her friend Despair.
Now the flames from Satan’s tongue are charged
and licking at her heels
She whispers “Hey Ginger, Danger’s loose behind his wheels”
And Satan knows how Danger makes you feel.
What will be will be, baby...

You don’t, you don’t need to cry.
There are no tears in my eyes
If Danger wants to find me,
I’ll let him in, he can find me.

Trouble needs a home girls,
a covert abode
from Tucson to Ohio
back through Tobacco road.
And she is armed and will fight for the souls
of girls around the world.
Standing up to Satan,
dancing on st. Michael‘s sword.
I’m on her side, in this brutal war.
Don’t cry baby...

You don’t, you don’t need to cry.
There are no tears in my eyes
If Danger wants to find me,
I’ll let him in, he can find me.

Trouble needs a home girls,
trouble needs a home.
Trouble needs a home girls,
will you give her one.
Trouble needs a home,
trouble needs a home...

Wild Way lyrics - Tori Amos

I hate you
I hate you
I do
I hate that
you're the one who can
make me feel gorgeous
with just just a flick of your finger
it is that easy

yes there was a time
you didn't always get your way
back there where my heart
was not so easy to invade
when my battlements were strong
before the Pilgrims came
don't forget you were the one
who loved my wild way

I hate you
I hate you
I do
I hate that
I turn into a kind
some kind of monster
with just just a flick of your finger
it is that easy

of course there was a time
you didn't always get your way
back there where my heart
was not so easy to invade
when my battlements were strong
before the pilgrims came
don't forget you were the one
who loved my wild way

I hate you
I hate you
I do
I hate that
you're the one who can
make me feel gorgeous
with just just a flick of your finger
it is that easy
to hate you
to hate you

Wedding Day lyrics - Tori Amos

The deafening sound of silence
Silence the siren between us

Now I drink back the past
Back to our wedding day
We'd hang onto every
Word the other would say

Blanket on bluebell knoll
Under a starry night holding us close
As jupiter winked at the earth
On that our wedding day

I run back to your arms again
Back there safe in your arms again

Your thoughts safely were shared
My secrets to you I gave
I swore angels were born
You said heaven can be made

Above us on bluebell knoll
The laughing seven maids chased by the bull
As Virgo she danced through the dawn
On that our wedding day

The deafening sound of silence
Silence the siren between us

I run back to your arms again
Back there safe in your arms again

Now I take off the mask
That hides all this from your gaze
As you sleep I pretend you dream
Of our wedding day

Weatherman lyrics - Tori Amos

He is not a weatherman
But his bride lies with the land
And she will whisper to him
I'll be dressing up in snow
Cloaked in echo it's almost
As if only Nature knows
How to bring his wife to life
And breathe her into form

"One more look from her eyes
One more look can you paint her back to life"

He knows every moor and mound
Every curve of every hill
A shoulder of the mountain
Where they watched a thousand dawns

"One more look from her eyes
One more look can you paint her back to life"

Rising she stirs
First it blurs
A breeze that lifts
Lilac blossoms from the earth
Blending its shape
To a skirt
With limbs that bend
He's drawn toward her pirouette turn
Autumn's peach black
Winter's velvet coat
Pink Tourmaline,
Palette of Spring
In Summer she's wrapped in Viennese green

He is not a weatherman
But his bride lies with the land
And she will whisper to him
I'll be dressing up in snow
Cloaked in echo it's almost
As if only Nature knows
How to paint his wife to life
With every season's tone

"One more look from her eyes
One more look can you paint her back to life"

16 Shades Of Blue lyrics - Tori Amos

Are you telling me it's over disintegrating lost and there's nothing I can do
Before you drop another verbal bomb, can I arm myself
with Cezanne's 16 shades of blue

As my heart is slowly ripping into pieces
disconnecting from the circuits of my mind
"You'll get over it" you say "in time"
in time?
If the clocks are black absorbing everything but
a remembering how we made it that
clocks are black

You say "get over it if 50 is the new black, hooray this could be your lucky day"
But my cables they are surging almost over loading as you disengage

Could your heart be slowly ripping into pieces
disconnecting from the circuits of your mind
"We'll get over it" you say "in time"
in time?
If the clocks are black absorbing everything but
a remembering how we made it that
clocks are black

"That's it you're done.
You've screwed up your life"
before you've begun
There are those who say
I am now too old to play

See over there at 33 she fears she'll lose her job
because they hear the ticking of her clock
At only 15 I said 15, they say her future's bleak
She should have started this at 3

As her heart is slowly ripping into pieces
disconnecting from the circuits of her mind
"She'll get over it" you say "in time"
in time? stop Father Time
If the clocks are black absorbing everything but
a remembering how we made it that
how our clocks are black

Before you drop another verbal bomb
can I arm myself
with Cezanne's 16 shades of blue

Maids Of Elfen-Mere lyrics - Tori Amos

The Maids of Elfen-mere
Watch over the boy with chestnut hair
And as he dreams about his love for them
They make a vow to protect him
Spinning their song
Sung by a happy corpse
Foreseeing a pretty girl drawing
Her arrow
But what they want to know
Will she bring him
True love
Or sorrow
The Maids of Elfen-mere
Don't know that the boy with chestnut hair
Winds back the clock at the 11th bell
Hoping to follow them
Through the veil
Spinning their song
Sung by a happy corpse
Foreseeing a pretty girl drawing
Her arrow
But what they want to know
Will the Queen of Eastland or the Wastelands be waking
The Maids of Elfen-mere

Promise lyrics - Tori Amos

[Tori:] Promise not to say

[Tash:] that you told me so
Promise not to say

[Tori:] that I'm getting too old

[Tash:] Promise not to take

[Tori:] never take your phone

[Tash:] I mean take their word

[Tori:] you mean over yours?
what I need to know, will you

[Tash:] Be there

[Tori:] Where the sun shines

[Tash:] I will be there

[Tori:] you are the light

[Tash:] that follows you everywhere

[Tash and Tori:] look for my love

[Tash:] where the sun shines
I will be there

[Tori:] will you

[Tash:] Promise not to judge

[Tori:] to judge who you love
I don't know if I...

[Tash:] Yes, make that Promise

[Tori:] whatever it is

[Tash:] can you hear the truth
if they accuse me

[Tori:] you think I'll doubt you?
what I need to know, will you

[Tash:] be there
when I am all alone

[Tori:] you're not alone

[Tash:] when I am broken down

[Tori:] we all break down

[Tash:] when every door is closed

[Tori:] there is one more

[Tash:] will you look for me?
I will rescue you

Giant's Rolling Pin lyrics - Tori Amos

Beth and Marlene's pies
with help from Caroline
after just one slice
you can uncover any lie
that's why the NSA
and now the FBI
want to be the ones who control
Beth and Marlene's pies
with help from Caroline
so basically that's why

I'm off to find the giant's rolling pin
legend says it does exist
if you don't stop looking for it
I'm off to find the giant's rolling pin
legend says it will bake for the world
(oh it will yes it really will)

In case we have
rolled out our little world too flat
then the giant's rolling pin
will roll the truth out
so that the whole world can dig in
to Beth and Marlene's pies

Everybody spies
so why the big surprise?
that is why the working woman
well deserves a slice
(Mississippi mud or Key lime?)
but now the nice taxman
in every state has tried
to say that it's in his jurisdiction to decide
who gets a bit of pie
so honestly that's why

I'm off to find the giant's rolling pin
legend says it does exist
if we don't stop looking for it
I'm off to find the giant's rolling pin
legend says it will bake for the world
(oh it will yes it really will)

If in fact we had
rolled our little world too flat
then the giant's rolling pin
would roll the truth out
so that the whole world can dig in
the whole world can dig in
to Beth and Marlene's pies
with help from Caroline
for a window of time you can see through any lie
with help from Caroline
and the giant's rolling pin

Selkie lyrics - Tori Amos

Selkie unzips her skin finally determined
through a window in the dark
there he sits all alone
I've been waiting on the love of my life to find
he's been waiting on his Selkie to come back
he said "I know these shores are not like yours
but will you make your home in my arms?"
Selkie battled tide and wave just to gaze upon his face
hiding behind rocks to learn
if he found a new love

Loralie sings the song for Lovers
who were torn apart then left broken hearted
Loralie hears the cry of Lovers
who the Sea of Fate has separated

Selkie puts her hand in his
he knows the gift she gives
there inside his cabinet
folded safe her seal skin
I've been waiting on the love of my life to find
he's been waiting on his Selkie to come back
he said "I know these shores are not like yours
but will you make your home in my arms?"

Unrepentant Geraldines lyrics - Tori Amos

Matthew, Mark, John, and Luke
(this is the day of reckoning)
mamma looks to you for truth
(with the heart of St. Catherine)
no need to apologize
(for the gypsy madonna)
truth is not always kind
(jesus hosanna)
Peter and Paul they did condemn
(this is the day of reckoning)
women like the Magdalene
(she you said the savior loved best)
now you ask me if I agree
(our patron St. Cecilia)
with the unrepentant geraldines
(jesus hosanna)

chapel of birds
we sing our song revise the word
will you pray
pray for me unrepentant geraldines?

I'm gonna free myself from your opinion
I'm gonna heal myself from your religion
I'm gonna free myself from your aggression
I'm gonna heal myself from your religion

Our Father of Corporate Greed (this is the day of reckoning)
you absolve corporate thieves (they will give the Judas kiss)
as our governments relent (guess who gets them elected)
and turn a blind eye to your sin (jesus hosanna)

chapel of birds
we sing our song revise the word
will you pray
pray for me unrepentant geraldines?

I'm gonna free myself from your opinion
I'm gonna heal myself from your religion
I'm gonna free myself from your aggression
I'm gonna heal myself from your religion

If you find the Vicar's wife
running through the rain
on her way from St. James
To Mary's in the field

You'll find she plays guitar
Sometimes with her band
But she plays the bass like a Messiah

If you find the Vicar's wife
staring out to sea
Praying for one more soul
We lose one every week
There she will light a flame
Asking why they've gone
What are we not giving
Giving to the young?

You'll find she plays guitar
Sometimes with her band
But she plays the bass like a Messiah

If you find the Vicar's wife
running through the rain
on her way from St. James
To Mary's in the field
On her way from St. James
to Mary's in
Mary's in
in the field

Oysters lyrics - Tori Amos

So can these shoes take me to
Who I was before
I was stabbing my sticks into
A vulnerable earth
And I can almost out run you
And those stalking memories
Did I somehow become you
Without realizing
Found a little patch of heaven now
So then I'm gonna turn oysters in the sand
'Cause I'm working my way back
I'm working my way back to me again
Not every girl is a pearl
With these ruby slippers
With these ruby slippers
So then I'm gonna turn oysters in the sand
In the sand
Turn
Turn
Turn
And there are forces of conflict
Taking portions of my mind
In whose realm laced with trickery
The fragments I must find
And I can almost out run you
And those stalking memories
Did I somehow become you
Without realizing
Found a little patch of heaven now
So then I'm gonna turn oysters in the sand
'Cause I'm working my way back
I'm working my way back to me again
Not every girl is a pearl
With these ruby slippers
With these ruby slippers
So then I'm gonna turn oysters in the sand
Turn
Turn
Not every girl is popular
Popular
Popular
Not every girl is a pearl
With these ruby slippers
With these ruby slippers
So then I 'm gonna turn oysters in the sand
In the sand
In the sand
Turn
Turn
Turn

Rose Dover lyrics - Tori Amos

If you see Rose Dover
That's her secret name
She would meet 3 others
To keep the forest safe
She says "my reality was soon called
Make Believe, imagination's funeral
Killed by the teenage me"
You don't have to throw it away
Throw being a kid away
Just because you're growing up
Faster everyday
You don't have to throw it all away
You don't have to throw it all away
There's a way
I've been thinking lately it's not
A permanent situation
Just a phase that she's in
I've been thinking lately
I've been thinking lately
It's not permanent
A scattering of birds
Above her head
A scattering of birds
That whisper to her
"You don't have to throw it away
Throw being a kid away
Just because you're growing up
Faster everyday
You don't have to throw it all away
There's a way"
Happy was Rose Dover
Speaking badger, fawn, rabbit
(Behind the lumberjacks)
Pondering the dilemma
At the Redwood conference
She cries, "my reality is now called
Make Believe, imagination's funeral
Killed by the teenage me"
You don't have to throw it away
Throw being a kid away
Just because you're growing up
Faster everyday
You don't have to throw it all away
You don't have to throw it all away
And as you rise
A rose you will forever stay

Invisible Boy lyrics - Tori Amos

You are
Are not just
An invisible boy
But if you want to be one
An invisible boy

You could go under cover
Make your great escape
Go where only eagles dare go
Without needing wings
Jump on a triumph like Steve McQueen
It's time you lived your dream
"But how can this be" you say
"Won't it all fade away
If I'm only made out of clay
Only made out of clay"

You are
Are not just
An invisible boy
But if you want to reach her
As an invisible boy

You could sit down beside her
Hold her as she cries
Call upon your friends the cloud riders
To unlock the sky
Then wave to the snowdrops skating by
Catch the laughter from her eyes
"But how can this be" you say
"Won't it all fade away
If I'm only made out of clay
Only made out of clay"

You are
Are not just
An invisible boy
But if you want to be one
As an invisible boy

You could cross over to the
Great Pub in the Sky
There you'll find him listening to a lost soul
Pouring them a pint
Then you'll know you have missed his advice
And he'll look you in the eye
"If you want to be" he'll say
"To be only partially a boy that's made out of clay
We're all made out of clay
But not you
You are my best invisible boy
And if you want to be this
An invisible boy
Then only those who can see you
Will be better off because they can
See and believe in
My best invisible boy
My best invisible boy"

Forest Of Glass lyrics - Tori Amos

Steal me away
Steal me away
From where I stand
Although I'm kneeling down
On the ground

Steal me away
Steal me away
From where I stand
Although I'm kneeling down
On the ground

The owl hoots and the moon beams through
A doubt awakes a voice dares to ask

Will you follow
If you love him you will follow
Will you follow
If you love him you will follow
If you love him you will follow him even 'til

His forest of glass
Forrest of glass
His

Robbing the muse
Is, Is that what I've done
They turn and laugh
Back you do cannot do

We are the robin's muse
And we will sing for you

Lift up your head
Lift up your heart

Lift up your head
Lift up your heart

The owl hoots and the moon beams through
A doubt awakes a voice dares to ask

Will you follow
If you love him you will follow
Will you follow
If you love him you will follow
If you love him you will follow him even 'til

His forest of glass
Forrest of glass
His

Steal me away
Steal me away
From where I stand
Although I'm kneeling down
On the ground

Lift up your head
Lift up your heart

Lift up your head
Lift up your heart

Lift up your head
Lift up your heart

In his forest of glass
Forrest of glass

White Telephone To God lyrics - Tori Amos

Do we have to get older? We do.
Do we have to get older? We do.
So besides getting grey hair, guess what showed up in the mail?
My very own white telephone....my very own white telephone to God.

When the white telephone rings, it's him.
It's not happened to me yet, but it's happened to my friend.
Hearing from the other end...
We all have to get older. It's true
And then St. Peter said, "better older than dead"
So you're being warned to change your diet.

Fresh bread, garlic, butter, toasted, dipped in the starter.
Some days don't you just need sticky toffee pudding plus
extra caramel sauce for luck?
Roasted taters and gravy, pizza thin pepperoni.
I'll make a deal with you, hold the booze in the tiramisu.
(you think you get tiramisu)

Cheesecake, red velvet cupcakes. Some favor their dream burger.
Fish and chips with tartar sauce.
Farewell carbohydrate love.

When the white telephone rings, it's him
It's not happened to me yet, but if I don't change my diet...
Hearing from the end...
We all have to get older, we do.
But then St. Peter said "better older than dead"
"That's your warning from your white telephone"
My very own white telephone to God.

Dixie lyrics - Tori Amos

Grab your coat
And those things
Without any fingers
The peach ones
That keeps you warm
In the southern winter
Off I go, window shopping with my mum
We’ll go whistling Dixie down the lane
So who cares our purse is almost empty
I’m the richest girl in Dixie land
Look away
Look again
She is still
Holding my hand
Holding my hand
Grab your coat
The cloudy blue one
With the stripy buttons
That keeps you warm
In the southern winter
Off I go, window shopping with my mum
We’ll go whistling Dixie down the lane
So who cares our purse is almost empty
I’m the richest girl in Dixie land
Look away
Look again
She is still
Holding my hand
Holding my hand
Look away
Look again
She is still
Holding my hand
Holding my hand