to venus and back (1999)
CD1
1. Bliss
2. Juárez
3. Concertina
4. Glory
Of The 80's
5. Lust
6. Suede
7. Josephine
8. Riot Poof
9. Datura
10. Spring Haze
11. 1,000 Oceans
CD2
1. Precious Things
2. Cruel
3. Cornflake
Girl
4. Bells
For Her
5. Girl
6. Cooling
7. Mr. Zebra
8. Cloud
On My Tongue
9. Sugar
10. Little
Earthquakes
11. Space Dog
12. Waitress
13. Purple
People
1. Bliss
(3:31)
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
CHORUS:
Steady as it comes
Right down to you
I've said it all
So maybe we're a biss
Of another kind
Lately
I'm into 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
CHORUS
So maybe you're a 4-horse engine
With a power drive
A hot kachina who wants into mine
Take it with your terracide
CHORUS
So maybe we're a bliss
Of another kind
2. Juárez (3:48)
Dropped off the edge again
Down in Juárez
"Don't even bat an eye if the eagle cries"
The rasta man says
Just cause the desert likes
Young girl's flesh and
No angel came
I don't think you even know
What 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 (3:56)
Clouds descending
I'm not policing what you think of dream
I run into your thought from across the room
Just another trick
Can I weather this
I've got fever above my waist
You got a squeeze box on your knee
I know the truth is in between
The 1st and 40th drink
CHORUS:
Concertina, concertina
A child 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
CHORUS
Too far, too far
It could all get away
Too cheerful
Concertina, concertina
I know the truth lies in between
The 1st and 40th drink
Clouds descending
4. Glory Of The 80's (4:03)
I took a taxi from LA to Venus
In 1985
I was electromagnetically sucked into
A party going on that night
It was the glory of the 80's
With karma drawn up in lines
And two bugle boy models
Saying "baby it's a freebee
You sure look deprived"
I had the 'Story Of O' in my bucket seat
Of my wanna-be mustang
Auditioning for reptiles
In their Rachel Welch campaign
In the glories of the 80's
You said I'm not afraid to die
I said "I don't find that even remotely funny even on this
space cake high"
CHORUS:
And then when it all seemed clear
Just then you go and dissappear
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 80's
You said "the end is nothing to fear"
I said "blow the end - nowbaby
Who do I gotta shag to get outta here?"
CHORUS
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 80's
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 clear
Just then you go and dissappear
5. Lust (3:53)
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 and emerging
Running free
Running through the underworld
Into your room
Is he real or ghost-lie
She feels she isn't heard
And the veil tears and rages
'Till her voices are remembered
And her secrets can be told
Hey you
Gender nectar
Crystaline from the vine
You know you'll drink her
Rolling and unrolling
Coiling and 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 (4:58)
Suede
You always felt like suede
There are days I feel your twin
Peekaboo
Hiding underneath your skin
Jets
Are revving, yes revving
From a central source 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 of the moon
Boy and if you keep your silence
Silencer on you'll talk yourself right into a job
Out of a hole, and into my bayou
I'm sure that you've been briefed
My absortion 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 (2:29)
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
1,200 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 (3:28)
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 dried lean meat
As she's going to the movie show
In a bath of glitter and a tiny shiver
She crawls through your java sea
Black sahara
I'm stepping in to 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 (8:25)
Get out of my garden
Passion vine
Texas 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 eucalyptus
White african iris
Katie's charm ruellia
Variegated shell ginger
Florida coontie
Datura
Ming fern
Sword fern
Dianella
Walking iris
Chocolate cherries allamanda
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 allamanda
Awabuki viburnum
Natal plum
Black magic ti
Mexican bush sage
Gumbo limbo
Golden shrimp
Belize shrimp
Senna
Weeping sabicu
Golden shower tree
Golden trumpet tree
Bird of paradise
Come in
Variegated shell ginger
Datura
Ionicera
Red velvet costus
Xanadu philodendron
Snow queen hibiscus
Frangipani
Bleeding heart
Persian shield
Cat's whiskers
Royal plam
Sweet alyssum
Petting bamboo
Orange jasmine
Clitoria blue pea
Downy jasmine
Datura
Frangipani
Dividing Canaan
Piece by piece
O let me see
Dividing Canaan
10. Spring
Haze (4:44)
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 out to somewhere
In a single engine Cessna
You say we'll never make it there
So all we do is circle it
Uh-oh
Let go
Off on my way
Unseen 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 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
And 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
Waiting on Sunday to drown
Why does it always end up like this
Waiting on Sunday
So I get creamed
Waiting on Sunday to drown
11. 1,000
Oceans (A Thousand Oceans) (4:19)
These tears I've cried
I've cried a thousand oceans
And if it seems
I'm floating in the darkness
Well, I can't believe that I would keep
Keep you from flying
And I would cry a thousand 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 will 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
These tears I've cried
I've cried a thousand oceans
And if it seems
I'm floating in the darkness
Well, I can't believe that I would keep
Keep you from flying
So I will cry a thousand more
If that's what it takes
To sail you home
Sail you home
Sail you
Home
All songs written and produced by
Tori Amos
Published by Sword and Stone
