To Venus And Back

Tori Amos To Venus And Back Lyrics
1.Bliss

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

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


2.Juarez

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

dropped off the edge again down in jaurez
'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

i don't think you even know
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

there's a time to keep it up
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


3.Concertina

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

clouds descending
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


4.Glory of the 80's

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

i took a taxi form LA to Venus
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


5.Lust

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

hey you gender nectar sifting
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

is he real or a ghost-lie
she feels she isn't heard
and the veil tears and rages
till her voices are remembered
and his secrets can be told

hey you gender nectar
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


6.Suede

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

suede you always felt like suede
there are days i feel your twin
peekaboo hiding underneath your skin
jets. are revving yes revving
and this. has power over me. not because
you feel something
or don't feel something for me
but because. mass. so big.
it can swallow swallow her whole star intact.
call me 'evil' call me
'tide is on your side' anything that you want.
anybody knows you can conjure anything
by the dark side of the moon. boy. and if
you keep your silence silencer on
you'll talk yourself right into a job.
out of a hole into my bayou
i'm sure that you've been briefed my
apsorption 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
peekaboo hiding underneath your skin
jets. are revving. yes revving from
an ether twist .
call me 'evil' little sister. I guess
i'd do the same. little sister.
you'll forgive me one day.


7.Josephine

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

not tonight josephine.

in an army's strength therein
lies the denouement. From
here you're haunting me. By
the Seine so beautiful, only
not to be of use-- impossible.

so strange, victory- 1200 spires
the only sound, moscow burning.
empty like the Tuileries. Like a dream
Vienna seems, only not to be of use- impossible.

in the last extremity -- to
advance or not to advance- I
hear you laughing

even still you're calling me
'not tonight, not tonight

not tonight'

Josephine


8.Riot poof

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

you know what you know so you go break the terror of the urban
spell
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

it will all find its way in time

blossom riot poof

you know what you know so you go chain her to your flow
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

it will all find its way in time

blossom riot poof

the sun is warming
my man is moistening
on the bomb
on the bond
on the bomb


9.Datura

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

get out of my garden

passion vine
taxas sage
indigo spires salvia
confederate jasmine
royal cape plumbago
arica palm
pygmy date palm
snow on the mountain
pink powderpuff
datura
crinum lily
st. christopher's lily
silver dollar euca;yptus
white african iris
katie's charm ruella
variegated shell ginger
florida coonite
datura
ming fern
sword fern
dianella
walking iris
chocolate cherries alamanda
awabuki viburnum

is there room in my heart
for you to follow your heart
and not need more blood
from the tip of your star

walking iris
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

dividing canaan
piece by piece
o let me see
dividing canaan


10.Spring haze

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

well i know it's just a spring haze
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

uh oh. let go. off on my way
unsee this eternal wanting.
let go
way to go
so i get creamed
waiting on Sunday to drown
waiting on sunday to drown

and i know it's just a spring haze
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


11.1,000 Oceans

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

these tears i've cried
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

i'm aware what the rules are
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

and if i find you. will you. still remember
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

these tears i've cried
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


12.Precious Things

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

So I ran faster
But it caught me here
Yes my loyalties turned
Like my ankle
In the seventh grade
Running after Billy
Running after the rain

These precious things
Let them bleed
Let them wash away
These precious things
Let them break their hold over me

He said you're really an ugly girl
But I like the way you play
And I died
But I thanked him
Can you believe that
sick
sick
holding on to his picture
Dressing up every day

I wanna smash the faces
Of those beautiful boys
Those christian boys
So you can make me cum
that doesn't make you Jesus

These precious things
Let them bleed
Let them wash away
These precious things
Let them break their hold over me

I remember
Yes
in my peach party dress
No one dared
No one cared
To tell me
where the pretty girls are
Those demi-gods....
With their nine-inch-nails and little fascist panties tucked
inside the heart
of every nice girrrrrrrl....

These precious things
Let them bleed
Let them wash away
These precious things
Let them break
Let them wash away
These these precious things
Let them bleed now
Let them wash away
These these precious things
Let them break their hold over me
Precious
Precious


13.Cruel

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

so don't give me respect don't give me a piece of your
preciousness
flaunt all she's got in our old neighbourhood
I'm sure she'll make a few friends
even the rain bows down let us pray as you cock-cock-cock your
mane
no cigarettes only peeled HAVANAS for you I can be cruel
I don't know why
why can't my ba.ll.oo.n stay up in a perfectly windy sky
I can be cruel I don't know why
dance with the Sufi's celebrate your top ten in the charts of
pain
lover brother bogenvilla my vine twists around your need
even the rain is sharp like today as you sh-sh-shock me sane
no cigarettes only peeled HAVANAS for you I can be cruel


14.Cornflake Girl

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

Never was a cornflake girl
thought that was a good solution
hangin' with the raisin girls
she's gone to the other side
givin us a-yo-heave-ho
things are getting kind of gross
and I go at sleepy time
this is not really happening
you bet your life it is

Peel out the watchword just peel out the watchword

She knows what's going on
seems we got a cheaper feel now
all the sweeteaze are gone
gone to the other side
with my encyclopedia
they musta paid her a nice price
she's puttin on her string bean love
this is not really happening
you bet your life it is

Rabbit where'd you put the keys girl
and the man with the golden gun
thinks he knows so much
thinks he knows so much
Rabbit ... where'd you put the keys girl


15.Bells For Her

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

and through the life force and there goes her friend
on her Nishiki it's out of time
and through the portal they can make amends

hey would you say whatever we're blanket friends
can't stop what's coming
can't stop what's on its way

and through the walls they made their mudpies
I've got your mind I said
she said I've your voice
I said you don't need my voice girl
you have your own
but you never thought it was enough of
so they went years and years
like sisters blanket girls
always there through that and this
there's nothing we cannot ever fix I said

can't stop what's coming
can't stop what's on its way
Bells and footfalls and soldiers and dolls
brothers and lovers she and I were
now she seems to be sand under his shoes
there's nothing I can do
can't stop what's coming
can't stop what's on its way

and now I speak to you are you in there
you have her face and her eyes
but you are not her
and we go at each other like blank ettes
who can't find their thread and their bare

can't stop loving
can't stop what is on its way
and I see it coming
and it's on its way


16.Girl

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

From in the shadow she calls
And in the shadow she finds a way
finds a way
And in the shadow she crawls
Clutching her faded photograph my image under her thumb
Yes with a message for my heart
Yes with a message for my heart

She's been everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
Everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own

And in the doorway they stay
And laugh as violins fill with water
Screams from the bluebells can't make them go away
We'll I'm not seventeen but I've cuts on my knees
Falling down as the winter takes one more cherry tree

She's been everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
Everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own

Everyone else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
rushin' rivers thread so thin limitation
Everyone else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
dreams with the flying pigs turbid blue
and the drugstores too safe in their
coats and in their do's yeah
Everyone else's girl
maybe one day maybe
one day one day one day
she'll be
her own
smother in our hearts a pillow to my dots

And in the mist there she rides
And castles are burning in my heart
And as I twist I hold tight
And I ride to work every morning wondering why
'Sit in the chair and be good now'
and become all that they told you

The white coats enter the room
and I'm callin' my baby callin' my baby callin' my baby callin'
Everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
Everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
Everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own


17.Cooling

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

Maybe I didn't like to hear
but I still can't believe Speed Racer is dead
So then I thought I'd make some plans
but Fire thought she'd really rather be Water instead

and Piggy got a message for me
From Jesus
and I've heard every word that you have said

and I know I have been
Driven like the snow
but this is cooling
Faster than I can
This is cooling
Faster than I

but do I hate what she is
or do I want to be her?
and don't we love something fresh
Anything new, virgin
Woman, you got too many brambles
Hiding under these bushes
Woman, you got too many brambles
but I always liked a good storm
Always good for a storm

so then Love walked up to Like
and said, 'I know that you don't like me much,
Let's go for a ride.'
This ocean is wrapped around that pineapple tree

and is your place(faith?) in heaven worth giving up these
kisses?

and Piggy got a message for me
From Jesus
and I've heard every word that you have said

and I know I have been driven like the snow
but this is cooling
Faster than I can
Faster than I can
Cooling
but this is cooling
This is cooling


18.Mr.Zebra

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

Hello, Mr. Zebra.
Can I have your sweater.
Cause it's cold cold cold
in my hole hole hole.

Ratatouille Strychnine.
Sometimes, she's a friend of mine.
With a gigantic whirlpool
that will blow your mind.

Hello, Mr. Zebra.
Ran into some confusion with a Mrs. Crocodile
Furry mussels marching on.
She thinks she's Kaiser Wilhelm
or civilised syllabub
to blow your mind.

Figure it out
She's, she's a goodtime fella.
She got a little fund to fight for Moneypenny's rights.
Figure it out.
she's,she's a goodtime fella.
too bad the burial was premature, she said and smiled.


19.Cloud On My Tongue

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

Someone's knockin on my kitchen door
leave the wood outside
what all the girls here are freezing cold
leave me with your Borneo
I don't need much to keep me warm

don't stop now what you're doing
what you're doing my ugly one
Bring them all here
hard to hide a hundred girls in your hair
it won't be fair if I hate her
if I ate her
you can go now

You're already in there
I'll be wearing your tattoo
you're already in there

Got a cloud sleeping on my tongue
he goes then it goes
and kiss the violets as they're waking up
leave me with your Borneo
leave me the way I was before

You're already in there
I'll be wearing your tatoo
I'm already in circles and circles and circles again
the girl's in circles and circles got to stop spinning
circles and circles and circles again
thought I was over the bridge now


20.Sugar

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

Don't say morning's come
Don't say it's up to me
If I could take 25 minutes
out of the record books.

Sugar
He brings me sugar

Bobby's collecting bees
and hammers, he used one on me.
Cold war with little boys
Get in with a bubble gum trade...

And...
Sugar, bring me sugar
And all the robins bring,
Bring me many things
but...
Sugar, Oh sugar

He brings me sugar
As far as I can tell
I've been gone for miles now

And you know, and I know
I don't know me very well

And I know, and you know
if they found me out.

What you gonna do
What you gonna do when they find you out
What you gonna do when they find out you're nothing but Sugar
Oh Sugar, all the Robins bring...

Sugar
He brings me sugar
And all the robins bring
They bring me many things but...

Sugar
He brings me sugar
And all the robins bring
They bring many things but...

Sugar
Oh, sugar...

Sugar
Ah, Sugar

Sugar..
You...
Ah, ha...
(fade)


21.Little Earthquakes

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

Yellow bird flying gets shot in the wing
Good year for hunters and Christmas parties
And I hate
And I hate
And I hate
And I hate
elevator music
The way we fight
The way I'm left here silent

Oh these little earthquakes
Here we go again
These little earthquakes
Doesn't take much to rip us into pieces

We danced in graveyards with vampires till dawn
We laughed in the faces of kings never afraid to burn
And I hate
And I hate
And I hate
And I hate
disintegration
Watching us with her
Black winged roses that safely changed their colour

Oh these little earthquakes
Here we go again
These little earthquakes
Doesn't take much to rip us into pieces

I can't reach you
I can't reach you
I can't reach you
I can't reach you
can't reach you
Give me life
Give me pain
Give me myself again
Give me life
Give me pain
Give me myself again
Give me life
Give me pain
Give me myself again
Give me life
Give me pain
Give me myself again
Give me life
Give me pain
Give me myself again
Give me life
Give me pain
Give me myself again
Give me life
Give me pain
Give me myself again
Give me life
Give me pain
Give me myself again...

Oh these little earthquakes
Here we go again
These little earthquakes
Doesn't take much to rip us into pieces
Doesn't take much to rip us into pieces
Doesn't take much to rip us into pieces


22.Space Dog

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos


23.The Waitress

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

So I want to kill this waitress
she's worked her a year longer than I
If I did it fast you know that's an act of kindness

But I believe in peace
I believe in peace, Bitch
I believe in peace

I want to kill this waitress
I can't believe this violence in mind
and is her power all in her club sandwich

I want to kill this killing wish
they're too many stars and not enough sky
Boys all think she's living kindness
ask a fellow waitress
ask a fellow waitress


24.Purple People(Christmas In Space)

Lyrics:Tori Amos
Music:Tori Amos

Well hey do you do Judo when they surround you
A little mental yoga
will they disappear
It's grim but never dubious as motives go
No matter what it takes she promises a show

Thunder wishes it could be the Snow
Wishes it could be as loved as she can be
These gifts are here for her, for you, for me

I watch me be this other thing and never know
if I'm marooned or where the purple people go
then lily white matricide from vicious words
it doesn't leave a scratch so therefore no one's hurt

Thunder wishes it could be the Snow
Wishes it could be as loved as she can be
These gifts are here for her, for you for me
And don't you know
The nurses make it clear
Just when you've escape, you have yourself to fear
a restaurant that never has to close
Breakfast, every hour
it could save the world

so hey do you do Judo in your finery
an angel's face is tricky to wear constantly

Thunder wishes it could be the Snow
Wishes it could be as loved as she can be
These gifts are here for her for you for me
For her, for her