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Tori Amos - Trouble's Lament

Tori Amos - Trouble's Lament Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Unrepentant Geraldines
Released: 2014

Trouble's Lament Lyrics

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

Writer/s: MYRA ELLEN TORI AMOS
Publisher: SWORD AND STONE PUBLISHING CO.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Trouble's Lament

This song finds Amos singing about the thrill of danger. The singer said that her Southern roots were influential when writing this tune. "Having been born in North Carolina, the South walks with me wherever I am in the world," said Amos. "I can't get it out of my DNA. I don't know if it's a genetic thing, because my mother's side, so far back, is from the Eastern Cherokee nation. So it's really in the blood. It's almost like you listen to the land speaking to you. And wherever I am, I can hear the South calling me."

"I really like the idea that trouble was a young woman," she added. "I see her on my travels a lot. And maybe I knew her many years ago when I was in my 20s."

The line "I wager she got betrayed by her friend Despair" is a reference to English author Neil Gaiman's comic book Sandman series. Amos told Radio.com : "Neil's one of my best friends. My brother Neil, my spirit brother of over twenty years: he ends up skating through many of my songs. There's a shared love for mythology there. That's a real driving factor in our [respective] work. I always wanted to."

Sandman fan Tori Amos became friends with Gaiman after making a reference to "Neil and the Dream King" on her 1991 demo tape. He included her in turn as a talking tree in his novel Stardust. Amos has continued to mention Gaiman in her songs, one example being in "Space Dog" where she sings "Where's Neil when you need him?"

Tori Amos - Wild Way

Tori Amos - Wild Way Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Unrepentant Geraldines
Released: 2014

Wild Way Lyrics

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

Writer/s: MYRA ELLEN TORI AMOS
Publisher: SWORD AND STONE PUBLISHING CO.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Wild Way

This song finds Tori Amos drawing parallels between gender relations and the treatment of Native Americans. "I've always been aware of my part Cherokee ancestry," she told Uncut magazine, "the idea that I'm both conquered and conqueror. 'Wild Way' explores how violent, manipulative men will fetish women as they use them, just as pilgrims fetished Indians while they were committing genocide. And society hasn't really confronted either."

Tori Amos - 16 Shades of Blue

Tori Amos - 16 Shades of Blue Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Unrepentant Geraldines
Released: 2014

16 Shades of Blue Lyrics

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
overloading 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 it's 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

Writer/s: MYRA ELLEN TORI AMOS
Publisher: SWORD AND STONE PUBLISHING CO.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

16 Shades of Blue

This electronically assisted song is a meditation on aging. "I turned 50 this year – and certain people really helped me to see it in a different way and grab it with both hands," said Amos. "The song '16 Shades of Blue' talks about aging from many points of view. And as I started to dive into it, I started to learn from women of all ages that age was a difficult thing for them – whether you're talking to a 15-year-old who feels pressure to choose their career path for life or a 33-year-old who fears she won't get the promotion if it is known that she is planning a family. They all felt the pressures in the aging process."

A lifelong art lover, it was the work of French post-impressionist painter Paul Cezanne that inspired the song title. "I discovered Cezanne this past year," said Amos. "And I just never got it before. All my life I have been going to art and artists to hear. One day I was looking through a book and I started hearing when I stumbled upon Cezanne's The Black Clock. He was known to have at least 16 Shades of Blue as part of his color palette."

Amos told The Irish Times the story of the song. "Rhythms and music started happening in my head," she said. "Then I began reading that Rilke would say that he [Cezanne] would paint in at least 16 shades of blue at times. All of sudden, it just came together: a story about age, and what it means to turn different ages at different times."

"I was hearing from women about their different struggles with age, and quite frankly I wasn’t prepared for it," Amos added. "So as I was staring 50 straight in the eye, that then became the song."

Tori Amos - Oysters

Tori Amos - Oysters Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Unrepentant Geraldines
Released: 2014

Oysters Lyrics

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, 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
in the sand, Turn
Turn, 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
Turn
Turn

Writer/s: MYRA ELLEN TORI AMOS
Publisher: SWORD AND STONE PUBLISHING CO.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Oysters

This piano ballad finds Amos making peace with haunting memories and self-doubt. "There are references to surviving, and how things from your past stay with you," she said. "Experiences stay with you. And you have to find a way to create with them. Or the voices in your head can intimidate you. Can make you doubt yourself. Self-doubt can be a harmful bully."

Tori Amos - Wedding Day

Tori Amos - Wedding Day Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Unrepentant Geraldines
Released: 2014

Wedding Day Lyrics

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

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

The deafening sound of silence
Silence the siren between us

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

I run back to 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

Writer/s: MYRA ELLEN TORI AMOS
Publisher: SWORD AND STONE PUBLISHING CO.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Wedding Day

This Celtic tune on how love morphs with time was inspired by Amos' marriage to English sound engineer Mark Hawley whom she wed on February 22, 1998. She told Radio.com : "Well, first of all, my husband is a muse for me. Mark, he's very quiet. He's British, rides a motorcycle, supports Arsenal, and the last thing I think he ever thought would be happening to him is that some woman would be talking about him, globally. It's just the worst nightmare for him. And yet, he's one of the sound engineers and hears it getting recorded."

"When I'm singing these songs, I'm singing to him," Amos added. "He's the first one to hear them. It's a strange relationship, that we work together and he's hearing these things, and they're about him. He's my boyfriend, he's the love of my life, and yet – as you know – to have a marriage for sixteen years, we've been together almost twenty years, you're going to experience all kinds of things. And if you love each other enough, you work through it. For many people, their wedding day happens before they've walked that dark road. Whether it's illness, or the death of a parent, or a miscarriage, or career changes. These 'little earthquakes' that happen. That song was about a marriage being tested. But they do ok (smiles)."