"Mother" ... isn't Tori Amos perfect?
12/18/2002 06:11 a.m.
I've loved the song for as long as I've owned Little Earthquakes. It's just one of those things where I said "this is my life. maybe not now. but tomorrow. or yesterday. or a million years ago." and you get it. But I'm really getting it. I'm being thrown out of the nest and everyone's yelling for me to flap some wings or something. No one seems to realize how hard that is. "Somebody leave the light on, just in... just in case..." She knows. But Tori always knows. Little Earthquakes will always be THE Tori Amos CD. It's because it says everything. It says everything in every song. Especially "Mother." And there are things she says... lyrics you don't understand right away... that come to you throughout the years. And while I've always loved that song, it's just now becoming real to me. The parents, the nest, the boys... it's all coming to me now. My favorite line? "it's across the sky, and across my heart, and I cross my legs, oh my God" I never knew why. But I do now. It sums it all up. The sky, my heart, my legs, my God. And that's all I have when you get down to it. I can deal with that. And I have to. If I'm lucky, someone'll leave a light on for the dancing girl.
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I am listening to "Mother" by Tori Amos... how appropriate