Tori Amos Lyrics

"Night Of Hunters" (2011)

Shattering Sea lyrics - Tori Amos
SnowBlind lyrics - Tori Amos
Battle Of Trees lyrics - Tori Amos
Fearlessness lyrics - Tori Amos
Cactus Practice lyrics - Tori Amos
Star Whisperer lyrics - Tori Amos
Job's Coffin lyrics - Tori Amos
Nautical Twilight lyrics - Tori Amos
Your Ghost lyrics - Tori Amos
Edge Of The Moon lyrics - Tori Amos
The Chase lyrics - Tori Amos
Night Of Hunters lyrics - Tori Amos
Carry lyrics - Tori Amos

Shattering Sea lyrics - Tori Amos

That is not my blood on the bedroom floor
That is not the glass that I threw before

He gets his power from tide and wave
The grains of sand are my domain
His tempest surged and angry flesh
And through my arms formed a sea of glass

Shattering Sea
Closing my eyes
[Repeat 2x]

Every line
Every curve
Every twist
Every turn
Of every brutal word

Every turn (every line)
Every line (every curve)
Every twist (every turn)
Every curve
Of every brutal word

That is not my blood on the bedroom floor
That is not the glass that I threw before

SnowBlind lyrics - Tori Amos

Some get snowblind
With the daylight
But then with the night
For once see clearly

Through fox's eyes
I've been watching you
How do you free your mind
So that you're not confined
By our concept
Of what we call time

Follow me
Call me
Anabelle
Some get snowblind
With the daylight
But then with the night
For once see clearly

I will
Follow you
Anabelle

Just imagine him
There upon that hill
Over three thousand years
From now 'til then

A key fragment
Of you and him

And what I must now
Bring back
I'm wondering
Were you giants
Or friends
Even the more again
Lovers or enemies
One or all of these

Battle Of Trees lyrics - Tori Amos

Our language of love
The Battle of Trees
We fought side by side
No one had more

Sharper consonants than you, love
And my vowels, well, were trusted

First comes the Birch
Rowan followed by the Ash
Then through the Alder she forms
And merges with Willow

The Hawthorne blossoms
As the Oak guards the door
She is the hinge on which the year swings
He courts the lightning flash and her

Summoning the spirits
Through incantations
You said the Thunder God seems to have
And our enemies are the Reed
But we knew the Furies held the Holly sacred

We were insulated
In a circle of words we'd drawn
With wisdom sent from nine Hazels
A Rowan fire and a Willow rod

At ten comes the vine
That generates bramble wine
The constant change of the night sun
A song in the blood of the white bull

Our language of love
The Battle of Trees
We fought side by side
No one had more
Sharper consonants than you, love
And my vowels, well, were trusted

From Ivy leaves is an ale that can unveil
The hidden meanings and serpents
Only revealed through visions
Yes vowels could insert
"A" was for the Silver Fir

The Firs of course
Then came next
With Heather at her most
Passionate

The White Poplar's gift to the souls of the dead
A promise that it was not the end
But for the vine the "U", it's coffer

Vowels and consonants
The power of trees
The power they hold
The power of prose

So when the church
Began to twist the old myths
They built their own Tower of Babel
From Ulster to Munster

The Reed gave way then
To the Elder
The Earth turns her will
So that night follows day

From dawn to dawn
Fom Winter to Winter
At day the Ash had power over the Alder

Our language of love
The Battle of Trees
We fought side by side
Then he said to me:
"I've dodged bullets and even poisoned arrows
Only to be foiled by the blade of a vowel"

Fearlessness lyrics - Tori Amos

Fearlessness blew in with the wind
Waking up to greet the sun
We sailed on like the ancient ones
Into the night underworld
We knew dangers would come
I had faith in both of us

Listen to your heart
(You can hear me)
Listen to your heart
(You can hear me)

Day turned night when he questioned
Why can't you balance the sky?
Souless storms have sent watchers
With bladeless weapons to fight

Teams of horses of the brine
Followed his cries through the fire
Demons of the wild hissed with the wind
Did you listen?

Listen to your heart
(Can you hear me?)
Listen to your heart
(Can you hear me?)
Fearlessness soon reminded me
You must be stronger then they
Cautioning there those who live
To be cruel for the fun of it

He let in a dark companion
That orbited between us
His siren friends convinced him that love
Was no match against storms to come
Their songs inflamed by doubt
Fearlessness drowned them out

Teams of horses of the brine
Followed his cries through the fire
Demons of the wild hissed with the wind
Did you listen?

Listen to your heart
Can you hear me?
Listen to your heart
Can you hear me?

Did we begin without knowing it?
To find fault in every gift
Then that was when the blame began
What were once two forces joined
In fearlessness

Cactus Practice lyrics - Tori Amos

[Tori:]
Maybe he and I

[Anabelle:]
Are like a pair of suns
That are captured

[Tori:]
Maybe he and I are like a pair of suns
That are captured

[Anabelle:]
Eternally linked into chasing
Each other's spin

[Tori:]
Eternally linked into chasing
Each other's spin
Bound by beliefs

[Anabelle:]
That have become steel cords

[Tori:]
Why the disharmony?
Let's resynch my world
With a harmonic defiance I'll face this

[Anabelle:]
I'd like to induct you into
The drink of the cactus practice
Cactus

[Tori:]
Cactus

[Anabelle:]
Practice

[Tori:]
Will you induct me into
The drink of the cactus practice?
Cactus

[Anabelle:]
Cactus

[Tori:]
Practice
Are you saying I'm

[Anabelle:]
Reactive but I can work with a doll face

[Tori:]
Every couple has their version of what they call the truth
Every couple has their version of what they call the truth
Call all that lies

[Anabelle:]
Beneath both stories

[Tori:]
Back to my fire

[Anabelle:]
Embrace what you find

[Tori:]
With a harmonic defiance I'll face this

[Anabelle:]
It's time to induct you into
The drink of the cactus practice

[Tori:]
Cactus

[Anabelle:]
Cactus

[Tori:]
Practice

[Anabelle:]
I'd like to induct you into
The drink of the cactus practice

[Tori:]
Cactus

[Anabelle:]
Cactus

[Tori:]
Practice
Will you induct me into
The drink of the cactus practice?
Cactus
Cactus

Job's Coffin lyrics - Tori Amos

Job's coffin looks down
Job's coffin looks down
To see what mankind is gonna do
There is a grid of disempowerment
And forces are being called to dismantle this

As Job's Coffin looks down
Job's Coffin looks down
To see what you're gonna do

There exists a power of old
Who wanted Earth to be controlled
But she and she alone is her own
She is her own

Job's coffin looks down
Job's coffin looks down
And can be proud
Proud of what I have done
Since time why do we women
Give ourselves away
We give ourselves away
Thinking somehow that will make him
Want to stay
Make him stay

Job's coffin looks down
At the day you shut your power down
You must out-create that distructive tendency
Let your fire starter hear the fury
Sister it's time to bring it back on line

As Job's coffin looks down
Job's coffin looks down
To see what you're gonna do
To see what you're gonna do

Nautical Twilight lyrics - Tori Amos

As the day gave way
To nautical twilight
I turned
My back on
The force of which I was made
I abandoned it
Rupturing the delicate balance
When I left my world for his
Day after day
As my city fades
And is swallowed by his sea
She is boundless
Even breaking on the beach
Every hour commenced
No fusion and fission
Can unify or drive a force to split
He has been possessed
To drink of the spices
From the east by his liquid mistress
Which then pushed me into the lair
Of uranium, she divides time between
Greed and his twin, tyranny
Day after day
Cities all betrayed
And the earth, his songs lay their blade
She is boundless
But by then she has been frayed
As the night gives way
To nautical dawn I can see
I must activate the force of which I'm made

Your Ghost lyrics - Tori Amos

You've left your ghost
Until tomorrow
And then he must be sent
To a strange address
In the Mediterranean

I've met your ghost
He has proposed
I've met your ghost, yes
He's proposed
He needs some time alone
Then he'll stay with me
Then he'll visit your seven seas

Please leave me your ghost
I will keep him from harm
Although I've learned that
You were wounded
My forest of glass
Caused enough damage
As your tear satin crashing
My embers and my blues
Could have another use
Your ghost has shown me
Our primroses could survive the frost
If a gentle rivulet of flame is sustained tenderly

He'll play a Beatles tune
Me, more a Bach fugue
Is this such a great divide
Between your world and mine
They both can purify
And heal what was cut and bruised

Please leave me your ghost
I will keep him from harm
I understand that you've been wounded

My embers and my blues
Could have another use
Please leave me your ghost

Just leave me
Your ghost
I will keep him warm
I will keep him warm

Edge Of The Moon lyrics - Tori Amos

Here on the edge of the moon
Running from our future
As I look back
Your heart grabs my hand
Asking me
To remember a vow you made
That would always take
Me to the edge of the moon
Circling pictures of you

The time you sailed on
Under the diamond eye
Or for a dolphin who for a song had
Crossed night
To bring back your bride

Under a warm Tuscan sun
No cliff was too steep for us
Here at the edge of the moon
I surf a curve thrown by you

And did you teach me to fly
Past your marmalade sky
So that after the waning and waxing of love
You could find
Me at the edge
Here at the edge
Me at the edge of
The edge of the moon

Now I'm going back
Past that marmalade sky
'Cause you've got me waxing and waning
As primitive girls
You can stir the embers of the Lucy
Inside of my soul

Now I'm going back
Past that marmalade sky
'Cause you've got me waxing and waning
As primitive girls
You can stir the embers of the Lucy
Inside of my soul

Now I'm going back
Past that marmalade sky
'Cause you've got me waxing and waning
As primitive girls
You can stir the embers of the Lucy inside
The Lucy inside
Stir the Lucy inside of my soul

Here at the edge
Me at the edge of
The edge of the moon

The Chase lyrics - Tori Amos

[Tori:]
Out there are hunters

[Anabelle:]
Let's say predators

[Tori:]
I have weapons
That could destroy them

[Anabelle:]
You must out-create
It's the only way
I am the hunter
And the hunted
Joined together

[Tori:]
You create duality

[Anabelle:]
And neutrality
I must leave you
With the Fire muse
Show her the riddle
It is serious
If you lose
Out there

[Tori:]
I'll be the hare

[Anabelle:]
Then I'm the greyhound
Chasing after you

[Tori:]
Then I will change my frequency
To a fish that thinks

[Anabelle:]
Then you will find yourself
In the paws
Of the otter
Near her jaws

[Tori:]
Then I'll grow my wings
As a flying thing

[Anabelle:]
Flying thing, you be warned
I'm the falcon

[Tori:]
Watch me change
Into a grain of corn

[Anabelle:]
A grain of corn
Hear the alarm
In your head
I'm the hen
Black and red
And you're in my barn
They would have won
Use your head or you'll be dead

Night Of Hunters lyrics - Tori Amos

Rose so red
This Night of Hunters
Find love instead of their
Blood by your thorn

Rose so red
This Night of Hunters
Find love instead of their
Blood by my thorn

Dark forces are out there gathering
Dark forces are out there gathering
Some hunt for power
Others to invade children's dreams
Some hunt for power
Others to invade children's dreams

They must pay this Night of Hunter
Find love instead of their
Blood by your thorn
Find love instead of their
Blood by my thorn

Holy Father, why not ask forgiveness
From the land
Spirit to spirit
End this suffering
Spirit to spirit
Soul to soul
They stole the dreams
Of the children
By distorting what love means

Watching over
Keeping watch
Watching over
Keeping watch
Watching over
Keeping watch over children's dreams
The ancient Seven Sisters above

Tuning the frequency
Keeping watch
Watching over
Keeping watch over children's dreams
The ancient Seven Sisters above

Changing the frequency
Watching over
Keeping watch
Watching over
Watching over
Keeping watch over children's dreams
The ancient Seven Sisters above

Tuning the frequency
Keeping watch
Watching over
Keeping watch
Holy Father, you ask forgiveness
From the land
Sacred Mother, you are released
From your chains

Spirit to Spirit
The children's dreams
Must now be reclaimed

Spirit to Spirit
Changing the frequency
Spirit to Spirit
Soul to Soul

Carry lyrics - Tori Amos

Love hold my hand
Help me see you with the dawn
That those that have left
Are not gone

But they carry on
As stars looking down
As nature’s sons
And daughters of the heavens

You will not ever be forgotten by me
In the procession of the mighty stars
Your name is sung and tattooed now on my heart
Here I will carry, carry, carry you forever

You have touched my life
So that now
Cathedrals of sound are singing, are singing
The waves have come to walk with you
To where you will live in the land of you,
Land of you

You will not ever be forgotten by me
In the procession of the mighty stars
Your name is sung and tattooed now on my heart
Here I will carry, carry, carry you
Here I will carry, carry, carry you forever.

Mary lyrics - Tori Amos

Everybody wants something from you,
Everybody want a piece of mary
Lush valley all dressed in green
Just ripe for the picking

God i want to get you out of here
You can ride in a pink mustang
When i think of what we've done to you
Oh, mary, can you hear me?

Growing up isn't always fun
They tore your dress and stole your ribbons
They see you cry, they lick their lips
But butterflies don't belong in nets

Oh mary, can you hear me?
Mary, you're bleeding
Mary, don't be afraid
We're just waking up
And i hear help is on the way

Mary, can you hear me?
Mary, like jimmy said
Mary, don't be afraid
'cause even the wind...
Even the wind cries your name

Everybody wants you, sweetheart
Everybody got a dream of glory
Las vegas got a pin-up girl
They got her armed as they buy and sell her

Rivers of milk are running dry
Can't you hear the dolphins crying
What'll we do when our babies scream
Fill their mouths with some acid rain

Oh mary, can you hear me?
Mary, you're bleeding
Mary, don't be afraid
We're just waking up
And i hear help is on the way

Mary, can you hear me?
Mary, like jimmy said
Mary, don't be afraid
'cause even the wind...
Even the wind cries your name

Na nay nay nay nay, na na na nay nay
Na nay nay nay nay, na na na nay nay, ooh ooh
Na nay nay nay nay, na na na nay

Oh butterflies don't belong in nets

Oh mary, can you hear me?
Mary, you're bleeding
Mary, don't be afraid
We're just waking up
And i hear help is on the way

Mary, can you hear me?
Mary, like jimmy said
Mary, don't be afraid
'cause even the wind...
Even the wind cries your name
'cause even the wind cries your name
'cause even the wind cries your name
Cries your name...
Cries your name...
Cries your name...