These are selections from many Tori songs. Some have explainations to their importance. If you're not a Tori fan, read these with an open mind. There might be more here that you relate with then you think. If you are a Tori fan, then you know exactly what I mean.
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"caught my boyfriend looking at another slender pair of thighs" The Big Picture
"Knock them off the ladder if they even seem to stand a chance" The Big Picture
"you took my love you took my money" Fayth
"how do you keep the romance there when a little french maid lives downstairs?" Fayth
"just a little reminder dear I am still alive" Heart Attack at 23
Little Earthquakes
"Boy you best pray that I bleed real soon." Silent All These Years
"I wore a slinky red thing, does that mean I should ***** for you, your friends, your father, Mr. Ed." Me and a Gun
On the third time of hearing this lyric, I broke down and cried. I related to it so well, I mean, the woman is always blamed for what happens to her because she looked a certain way and that makes me SO angry. It was a little bit too close to home. The way she says it too is so moving, ..."you....your friends..." The people she names rolls off her tongue in such a way you can only but cringe and cry.
"I could just pretend that you love me...but why do I need you to love me if you can't hold what I hold dear?" Leather
"I know a cat named Easter he says will you ever learn" Crucify
I don't like cats but I think if I had one I'd call him Easter.
"the happy Phantom has no right to b---h" Happy Phantom
"sometimes I think you want me to touch you how can I when you build the great WALL around you" China
"we'll I'm not seventeen but I've got cuts on my knees falling down" Girl
"those demigods with their NINE-INCH nails tucked inside the heart of every nice girl" Precious Things
Under the Pink
"Ginger is always sincere, just not to one man" The Wrong Band
Yeah, um, you see people can be hypocrites like that, saying "the worst thing you could do to me is cheat on me" and then will turn around and cuddle with Mr Jack the Goat so they did the same thing as Ginger does here.
"And the man with the Golden Gun thinks he knows so much thinks he knows so much" Cornflake Girl
Golden Eye is my favorite game! And when you have the golden gun, you have control...you think you know so much until somebody else comes up behind you and pumps their golden bullets into you. Oops.
"I think the good book is missing some pages" Icicle
Icicle, strangely enough, is one of my favorite songs when it comes to affecting me. I would write all the lyrics up here, but they are, well let's just say that they are very interesting.
"Maybe a bright sandy beach is gonna to bring you back" Pretty Good Year
"Will you even tell her if you decide to make the sky fall will you even tell her if you deciede to make the sky" God
"So I want to kill this Waitress She's worked here a year longer than I" The Waitress
The Waitress is a great song. It's so full of passion and I love that stuff. Plus I feel Tori on this, I mean sometimes you just want to kill people. So Jack, watch your back...
"Tears on the sleeve of a man don't wanna be a boy today" Pretty Good Year
This line, it's so me on my bad days. I am like, the most totally un-girlish type of girl you can find in many ways. But sometimes, I don't want to put on my protective shell and I don't want to pretend. You can't always be strong, you always need to go back to who you really are every once in a while.
"can't stop what's coming can't stop what is on its way" Bells for Her
I actually do not this song, I think it's boring. But I do like this lyric, I use it a lot when I write journals for Mr. Klein's class. It means, you can't stop fate in my opinion. Things will go how they go, you can change it, but once you've made the choice of what's going to happen, there is no point of return. It's coming your way and it's going to reach you sooner or later.
"I'm you again racing turtles the grapefruit is winning" Space Dog
"well happy birthday her blood's on my hands its kind of a shame cause I did like that dress" Yes, Anastasia
Boys For Pele
"sometimes you're nothing but meat" Blood Roses
Don't guys make you feel like this all the time? Like all you're good for is THAT and nothing else? I can't stand feeling that way. There is no reason why I have to feel like that.
"honey bring it close to my lips." Professional Widow
"ran into some confusion with a Mrs Crocodile" Mr Zebra
"for a girl who couldn't choose between the shower or the bath" Hey Jupiter
That's me. I can never choose...I mean, I hate showers with a passion, standing up is not fun, but a bath takes too long. Usually I go with the bath anyways.
"ran into the henchmen who severed Anne Boleyn / he did is right quickly a merciful man / she said 1+1 is 2 / but Henry said it was 3 / so it was / here I am" Talula
Rent "Anne of a Thousand Days" today to understand what the heck this means.
"I got my rape hat on, honey but I always could accessorize" Talula
"Not Charlie's wonderful dog" Not the Red Baron
"When you're the sweetest cherry in an apple pie" In the Springtime of His Voodoo
"he likes killing you after your dead" Blood Roses
"she wore Shiseido Red and we drank tea by her side" Muhammed my Friend
This song, it's so beautiful. It's so funny. It's so, everything I've always wanted to here. Someone that doesn't respect the story that she is talking about. GIRL POWER! "we both know it was a girl, back in Bethlehem"
"but honey do drop in at the dew drop inn" Muhammed my Friend
"you told me last night you were a sun now with your very own devoted satellite" the Doughnut Song
"I'm trying not to move it's just your ghost passing through" Putting the Damage On
"Don't make me scratch on your door I never left you for a banjo" Putting the Damage On
"so I chased fown your posies your pansies in my hosies" Horses
"got a litte fund to fight for Moneypenny's rights" Mr. Zebra
"you see her olives are cold pressed and her best friend is a sundress" Little Amsterdam
Sometimes I think this is me. If you know me and you know the song, then you'd know exactly why."boy are are my 5th aveune" Little Amsterdam
from the choirgirl hotel
"need a lip gloss boost" iieee
"yeah I mooned him on Donna's box she's still in recovery" Jackie's Strength
"Bring your sister if you can't handle it" she's your cocaine
In my case, it would be my cousin, not my sister.
"She's got you shaving your legs" she's your cocaine
My neighbor shaved his legs for $5.
"didn't help my brain out" playboy mommy
I don't know about you, but falling down in your platforms never helped anyone's brain!
"how many fates turn around in the overtime"
spark
"girl you've got to know it's time to turn the page" Northern Lad "ballerinas that have fins that you'll never find" spark
"let us pray as you cock-cock-cock your mane" Cruel
"The Lord of the Flies was diagnosed as Sound" pandora's aquarium
to venus and back: venus orbiting
"on the bomb on the bond on the bomb" Riot Poof
"I can't believe that I would keep you from flying and I would cry 1000 more if that's what it takes to sail you home" 1,000 Oceans
"is that what I taste your supernova juice" Bliss
"as she go to the movie show" Riot Poof
"my husband ran off with my...but they love me as I am" glory of the 80's
"no one feeling insecure we were all gorge and famous in our last lives" glory of the 80's
Gosh I love this song. I really mean it. But see, Tori is gorgeous and famous in this life too!"not because you feel or don't feel something for me but because..." suede
"my fear is greater then my faith but I walk. the missionary way" suede
"you know what you know so you go break the terror of the urban spell" Riot Poof
"katie's charm ruella...snow-on-the-mountain...frangipana" Datura
My cousin's name is Katie and she's so special to have her name in a Tori song. It's not fair. Why can't Tori put "Stephanie" in a song?"I know the truth is between the 1st and 40th drink" Concertina
"I got a dub on your landscape" Concertina
Bee-Sides
"When you live in the past you refuse to see when your daughter comes home 9 months pregnant" Sweet Dreams
"I've got lizards and snakes running through my body funny how they all have my face." Sweet Dreams
"If the sun refused to shine
I would still be loving you
Mountains crumbled to the sea
There would still be you and me" Thank YouThis is how I feel. But I dunno, if these things happened, I might die or he might die so you never know.
"don't bother coming down / made a friend of the Western sky / oh about coming down / you always like your babies tight" Honey
"Some people sing about Dutch girls or girls from California they might be alright for a night alright but I don't trust them I warn you" London Girls
Thanks Tori, for telling the world how you can't trust me, me being a California girl of course.
"your legs turn to jelly and they gotta little smelly" London Girls
"some boy you are to wear my color red, to wear it very proudly to wear it like a lady knows how to cross her legs" Never Seen Blue
"you know she deserved that nose, spattered and swattered blood in my hand, not nice day for your little girl but you came to my aid" Toodles Mr. Jim
"thunder wishes it could be the snow" Purple People
"I say the world is sick, you say tell what that makes us darlin See you always find my faults faster then you find your own." Upside Down
"is your place in heaven worth giving up these kisses" Cooling
"just when you escape, you have yourself to fear" Purple People
Something I LOVE in Precious Things is the "giiiiiiiirrrrrrl" after "those demigods with their NINE-INCH nails the little facist panties tucked inside the heart of every nice..." I think it creates such a unique take on the song.There has been an evolution of this line throughout the orginal version to putting it through live show after live show. Here is an anaylis:
Album: Girl. Nothing more. Just girl.
Little Earthquakes Live Era: On the Tori Stories LE live disc, she sings it very sweetly and softy. "Giiirrrrll." Her voice fades it out.
Under the Pink Era: Don't know...? Anybody?
Boys For Pele Era: Oh oh oh! My favorite. This is when she growls it. "gggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrll." She looks like she is possessed on the Live in NY video. Her lips stick out and she licks the microphone when it's over. Then she growls her way to the end of the song. Love it! It has scared many of people.
Choirgirl and Venus Era: With the live band, it's now a straight out powerful, long "gggiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrllll." Fun, but not as super as Boys for Pele. I saw this one live and I'll never forget the power in that moment. ::]
I have a confession, I stoled the Tori pic at the top, I just wanted you to know.