orbiting (47:52)Bliss, Juárez, concertina,glory of the 80's, Lust, suede, riot poof, Josephine, Dátura, spring haze, 1,000 oceans |
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live. still orbiting(75:33) precious things, cruel, Cornflake Girl,bells for her, Girl, cooling, mr. zebra, cloud on my tongue, sugar, little earthquakes, space dog, Waitress, Purple People |
Lyrics, of course, by the Goddess Tori Amos
Published by Sword & Stone
Released Tuesday, Sept 21, 1999
Went Platinum Nov 10, 1999
venus orbiting (Studio disc)
Bliss (3:42)(single released Aug 24, 1999)
Father, I killed my monkey
I let it out
to taste the sweet of spring
wonder if I will wander out
test my tether to
see if I'm still free
from you
steady as it comes
right down
to you
I've said it all
so maybe we're a Bliss
of another kind
lately, I'm in to circuitry
what it means to be
made of you but not enough of you
and I wonder if
you can bilocate is that what I taste
your supernova juice
you know it's true I'm part of you
steady as it comes
right down to you
I've said it all
so maybe you're a 4 horse engine
with a power drive
a hot kachina who wants into mine
take it with your terracide
we're a Bliss
of another kind
Juárez (3:48)
dropped off the edge again down in jáurez
i don't think you even know
there's a time to keep it up
concertina (3:56)
clouds descending
glory of the 80's (4:03)
i took a taxi form LA to Venus
Lust (3:53)
hey you gender nectar sifting
is he real or a ghost-lie
hey you gender nectar
suede (4:58)
suede
Josephine (2:29)
not tonight josephine.
in an army's strength therein
so strange, victory- 1200 spires
in the last extremity -- to
even still you're calling me
Josephine
riot poof (3:38)
you know what you know so you go break the terror of the urban spell
it will all find its way in time
blossom riot poof
you know what you know so you go chain her to your flow
it will all find its way in time
blossom riot poof
the sun is warming
Dátura (8:25)
get out of my garden
is there room in my heart
walking iris
dividing canaan
spring haze (4:44)
well i know it's just a spring haze
uh oh. let go. off on my way
and i know it's just a spring haze
1,000 oceans (4:19)
these tears i've cried
i'm aware what the rules are
and if i find you. will you. still remember
these tears i've cried
"don't even bat an eye
if the eagle cries" the rasta man says,
just cause the desert likes young girls flesh and
no angel came
what you think you just said
so go on spill your seed
shake your gun to the rasta man's head
and the desert- she must be blessed and
no angel came
a time to keep it in
the indian is told
the cowboy is his friend
you know that i can breathe
even when i cheat
should. should've been over for me
no angel came
i'm not policing
what you think and dream
i run into your thought from
across the room
just another trick can i
weather this
i've got a fever above my waist
you got a squeeze box on your knee
i know the truth is in between the
1st and the 40th drink
concertina concertina a chill that bends
this i swear you're the fiercest calm
i've been in the soul quake
happened here in a glass world
particle by particle she slowly changes
she likes hanging chinese paper cuts just
another fix
can i weather this
i got my fuzz all tipped to play
i got a dub on your landscape
then there's your policy of trancing
the sauce without the blame too far
too far too far it could all get way too cheerful
concertina i know the truth lies in
between the 1st and 40th drink
clouds descending
in 1985 i was electromagnetically sucked
back into a party going on that night
it was the gory of the 80s with karma drawn up in lines
and 2 bugle boy models saying "baby it's a freebie
you sure look deprived." I had the
Story of O in my bucket seat
of my wanna be mustang
auditioning for reptiles in their
Raquel Welsh campaign
in the glories of the 80s you said
"I'm not afraid to die" I said
I don't find that remotely funny, even
on this space cake high
and then when it all seemed clear
just then you go and disappear
silicone party babies to the left
and Joan of Arcs to the right
no one feeling insecure
we were all gorge and famous in our last lives
in the glories of the 80s you said
"the end is nothing to fear" I said
blow the end
now baby who do i gotta shag to get outta here
and then when it all seemed clear
just then you go and disappear
sure you're out there orbiting around
wish i had you back now
i met a drag king called venus
she had a velvet hologram she said
"my husband ran off with my shaman but they love me as i am"
in the glories of the 80s
i may not have to die
i'll clone myself like that blonde chick
that sings Bette Davis eyes and then
when it all seemed to clear
just then
you go and disappear
through the grain of gold tripping at
your door is that you. alpha in her blood
and when the woman lies you don't
believe her
rolling and unrolling
coiling emerging
running free
running through the underworld
into your room
she feels she isn't heard
and the veil tears and rages
till her voices are remembered
and his secrets can be told
crystalline from the vine
you know you'll drink her
rolling and unrolling
coiling emerging running free
running through the afterworld
into your room so she prays
for a prankster and lust
in the marriage bed
and he waits till she can give
and he waits and he
waits
you always felt like suede
there are days i feel your twin
peek-a-boo
hiding underneath your skin
jets
are a-revving, yes, a-revving from
a central source down this
this power over me
not because you feel something
or don't feel something for me
but because
mass is so big
it can swallow her whole star intact
call me evil, call me tide is on your side
anything you want
anybody knows you can conjure
anything by the dark of the moon
boy, and if you keep your silence
there on you'll talk yourself right into a jump
out of a hole
and into my bag
into my bag, yeah
suede
i'm sure that you've been briefed
my absorbtion lines, they are frayed
and i fear
my fear is greater
than my faith but i
walk the missionary way
you always felt like suede
there are days I am your twin
peek-a-boo
hiding underneath your skin
jets
are a-revving, yes, a-revving from
an evil twist
call me evil, call me tide is on your side
anything you want
anybody knows you can conjure
anything by the dark of the moon
boy, and if you keep your silence
there on you'll talk yourself right into a jump
out of a hole
and into my bag
into my, my bag
suede
oh little sister, i hope you didn't feel that way
oh little sister, i'm glad you came, and i said
oh little sister, i hoped you wouldn't feel that way
oh little sister, oh again, and i said
oh little sister, i hope you didn't feel that way
oh little sister, i'm still glad you came, i said
oh little sister, i wish you didn't feel that way, and
oh little girl, said, i'd do the same, do the same
oh little sister, i hoped you wouldn't feel that way
oh, i said, i wish
oh little sister, can you forgive me one day
can you forgive me
suede
lies the denouement. From
here you're haunting me. By
the Seine so beautiful, only
not to be of use-- impossible.
the only sound, moscow burning.
empty like the Tuileries. Like a dream
Vienna seems, only not to be of use- impossible.
advance or not to advance- I
hear you laughing
"not tonight, not tonight
not tonight"
this alliance you say 'i'm on the threshold of greatness girl' so you burn
your pagoda through the congo till there's a broken bond
on the birth of the search white trash
my native son
she bites through your lean dried meatas she's
going to the movie show
in a bath of gliter and a tiny shiver
she crawls through your lava sea
black sahara
i'm stepping into your space oddity
my man is moistening
on the bomb
on the bond
on the bomb
passion vine
taxas sage
indigo spires salvia
confederate jasmine
royal cape plumbago
arica palm
pygmy date palm
snow on the mountain
pink powderpuff
dátura
crinum lily
st. christopher's lily
silver dollar euca;yptus
white african iris
katie's charm ruella
variegated shell ginger
florida coonite
dátura
ming fern
sword fern
dianella
walking iris
chocolate cherries alamanda
awabuki viburnum
for you to follow your heart
and not need more blood
from the tip of your star
chocolate cherries alamanda
awabuki viburnum
natal plum
black magic ti
mexican bush sage
gumbo limbo
golden shrip
belize shrimp
senna
weping sabicu
golden shower tree
golden trumpet tree
bird of paridise
come in
variegated shell ginger
datura
ionicera
red velvet costus
xanadu philondron
snow queen hibiscus
frangipani
bleeding heart
persian sheild
cat's whiskers
royal palm
sweet alyssum
petting bamboo
orange jasmine
clitoria blue pea
downy jasmine
atura
frangipani
piece by piece
o let me see
dividing canaan
but i don't much like the look of it
and if omens are a god send
like men breezing in
certain these clouds go somewhere
billowing outto somewhere
n a single engine cessna
you say we'll never make it there
all we do is circle it
unsee this eternal wanting.
let go
way to go
so i get creamed
waiting on Sunday to drown
waiting on sunday to drown
but i don't much like the look of it
but all we do is circle it
and i found out where my edge is
ad it bleeds into where you resist
and my only way out
is to go so far in
billowing out to somewhere
billowing out luna riviera
waiting on sunday to land
waitng on sunday to drown
why. does. it. always end up like this
waiting on sunday
so i get creamed
waiting for sunday to drown
(single released Sept 7, 1999)
i've cried 1000 oceans
and if it seems i'm. floating.
in the darkness
well, i can't believe that i would kep.
keep you from flying
and i would cry 1000 more if that's
what it takes to sail you home
sail you home sail you home
but you know that i will run
you know that i will follow you
over silbury hill through the solar field
you know that i wil follow you
playing at trains
or does this little blue ball
just fade away.
over silbury hill through the solar field
you know that i will follow you.
i'm aware what the rules are
but you know that i will run
you know that i will follow you
i've cried 1000 oceans
and if i'm. floating.
in the darkness
well, i can't believe that i would kep.
keep you from flying
and i will cry 1000 more if that's
what it takes to sail you home
sail you home sail you home
venus live. still orbiting (live disc)
precious things (7:37)
From Little Earthquakes
cruel (6:47)
From from the choirgirl hotel
Cornflake Girl (6:31)
From Under the Pink
bells for her (5:42)
From Under the Pink
Girl (4:15)
From Little Earthquakes
cooling (5:09)
B-Side From "Spark" (UK version)
mr. zebra (1:17)
From boys for pele
cloud on my tongue (4:58)
From Under the Pink
sugar (5:10)
B-Side From "China" (UK version)
little earthquakes (7:37)
From Little Earthquakes of course
space dog (5:46)
From Under the Pink
Waitress (10:24)
From Under the Pink
Purple People (4:11)
B-Side From "Spark" (UK version)
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