Little Earthquakes ~ B-Sides

Little Earthquakes Era B-Sides

Lyrics by Tori Amos Unless Otherwise Noted

Angie (see 'covers'), Flying Dutchman, Here. In My Head,
Humpty Dumpty, Mary, Ode to the Banana King (Part One),
Song for Eric, Smells Like Teen Spirit (see 'covers'), Sugar,
Sweet Dreams, Take to the Sky, Thank You (see 'covers'),
The Happy Worker, Thoughts, The Pool, Upside Down

Flying Dutchman

Hey kid, I've got a ride for you
They say your brain is a comic book tatoo
And you'll never be anything

"What will you do with your life"
Oh, that's all you hear from noon till night

Take a trip on a rocket ship baby
Where the sea is the sky
I know the guy who runs the place
And he's out of sight

Flying Duchman, are you out there?
Flying Duchman, are you out there?
Flying Duchman, are you out there?

Straight suits, they don't understand
She tried, that one with the alligator boots
But the other side drew her in

Heart falling fast when she left
Even the milky way was dressed in black

Take a trip on a rocket ship baby
The sea is the sky
I know the guy who runs the place
And he's out of sight

Flying Duchman, are you out there?
Flying Duchman, are you out there?
Flying Duchman

Cause they can't see what you're born to be
They can't see me
They can't be what they can't believe
They can't see what you see

Keep the boys spinning in their own little world
Time up and so we won't say a word
They keep the boys spinning in their own little world
So afraid he'll be what they never were

Take a trip on a rocket ship baby
The sea is the sky
I know the guy who runs the place
And he's out of sight

Flying Duchman, are you out there?
Flying Duchman, are you out there?
Flying Duchman

Cause they can't see
Cause they can't see
Cause they can't see
Are you still out there?

**first voice: they can't see what I've found out, are you still out there?
second voice: they can't feel me, they can't see and I just lose myself
third voice: they can't see they can't see you know you're jumping high from a high jump so many know but they can't see

**this is three voices singing at the same time

Here. In My Head

In my head, I found you
There and running around
And following me
But, you don't know, haunting there
But i find
That i have now
More than i ever wanted to

So maybe Thomas Jefferson
Wasn't born in your backyard
Like you have said, ah
Maybe i'm just the horizon you run to
When she has left you
There you are here in my head
And running around and calling me
Come back,
I'll show you the roses and brush off the snow
And open their petals again and again
And you know that apple green ice cream can melt in your hands
I can't, so
I, I held your hand at the fair
And even forgot what time it was

And even Thomas Jefferson
Wasn't born in your backyard
Like you have said, ah
Maybe i'm just the horizon you run to
When she has left you

And me here, alone on the floor
You're counting my feathers as the bells toll
You see
The bow and the belt and the girl from the south
All favorites of mine, you know them all well
And spring brings fresh little puddles
That makes it all clear, and makes it all

And do you know?
Hey, do you know
What this is doing to me?
Oh, here, here, here, here in my head

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great big fall
All the kings horses and all the kings men
Couldn't put Humpty together again

Humpty Dumpty and Betty Louise

Stole a Sony and some Canembert cheese
She said "Humpty baby, take me
Oooh, yeah, take me to the river
Cause I like the way it runs, yeah,
Take me to the river
You know I like the way it runs, yeah"

He said, "Everything's going my way"
he said, "Maybe it's my lucky day"
And he said, "anything you want I can give"
She said, "I wanna take your picture
Just for me"
He said, "Anything"
She said, "Up there, baby
Get on the wall babe"

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
And looked at her as he was falling
All the kings horses and all the kings men
Couldn't put Humpty together again

Hey, Betty Louise
Hey, Betty Louise
She said, "I like custard in the summer, honey
Oh yeah, what it takes to be queen
Hey, what it takes to be queen
What it takes to be..

Everybody wants something from you
Everybody want a piece of Mary
Lush valley all dressed in green
Just ripe for the picking
God I want to get you out of here
You can ride in a pink mustang
When i think of what we've done to you

Mary, can you hear me?

Growing up isn't always fun
They tore your dress and stole your ribbons
They see you cry, they lick their lips
Butterflies don't belong in nets

Oh Mary, can you hear me?
Mary, you're bleeding
Mary, don't be afraid
We're just waking up
And I hear help is on the way

Mary, can you hear me?
Mary, like Jimi said
Mary, don't be afraid
'Cause even the wind
Even the wind cries your name

Everybody wants you sweetheart
Everybody got a dream of glory
Las Vegas got a pin-up girl
They gottta run as they buy and sell

If it's a myth, running dry
Can't you hear the dolphins crying?
What do we do when our baby scream?
Fill their mouths with some magic rain

Oh Mary, can you hear me?
Mary, you're bleeding
Mary, don't be afraid
We're just waking up
And i hear help is on the way

Mary, can you hear me?
Mary, like Jimi said
Mary, don't be afraid
'Cause even the wind
Even the wind cries your name

Na nay nay nay nay, na na na nay nay
Na nay nay nay nay, na na na nay nay, ooh ooh
Na nay nay nay nay, na na na nay
Oh butterflies don't belong in nets

Oh Mary, can you hear me?
Mary, you're bleeding
Mary, don't be afraid
We're just waking up
And i hear help is on the way

Mary, can you hear me?
Mary, like Jimi said
Mary, don't be afraid
'Cause even the wind
Even the wind cries your name
'Cause even the wind cries your name
'Cause even the wind cries your name
Cries your name
Cries your name
Cries your name

Ode to the Banana King (Part One)

Turning back ten thousand years
it's all a blur the taxis go
monster man a willing friend
Lucy serves the melon cold

Violent and delicious souls
four red trucks dressed illegally
Mother knows how the bugle blows
gonna get caught, gonna get caught
gonna get caught in her rug babe

This is not a conclusion
no revolution
just a little confusion
on where your head has been

Boats made out of paper float
dreams made up for the banana king, darling
crumbs you have lapped freely of
devious we all have been

Violent and delicious souls

This is not a conclusion
no revolution
just a little confusion
on where your head has been

I wait all day for my sailor and sometimes he comes
see you over hill and dale
riding on the wind I see
you know me, you know me like the nightingale
"Oh fair maiden I see you standing there"
will you hold me for just a fair time
the tune is playing in the fair night
I see you in my dreams
fair boy your eyes haunt me

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

Sugar
He brings me sugar

Bobby's collecting bees
Hand hammers, he used one on me
Cold walls, little boys
Get in with them, bubble gum tree

And Sugar
He bring's me sugar
And all the robins bring
Bring me many things but

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

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

"Lies everywhere"
Said the Father to the son
You're peppermint breath
Gonna choke him to death daddy
Watch your little black sheep run
He's got knives in his back
Everytime he opens up
You say "He gotta be strong if
he wants to be a man" Mr.
I don't know how you can have
Sweet dreams
Sweet dreams
Land land of Liberty we're run
by a constipated man
When you live in the past you refuse
to see when your daughter comes home
9 months pregnant with 5 billion points
of light gonna shine then on the face
of your friends - they've got the Earth in a sling
the world on her knees they've even got
Your zipper between their teeth
Sweet dreams
Sweet dreams
You say you say you say that you have 'em
I say that you're a liar
Sweet dreams
Sweet dreams

And go on go on go on and go on dream
your House is on fire
well well Summer wind
"Elephant mind missy
You don't have you're forgettin
to fly darlin when you sleep"
I got hazy lazy Susan
takin turns all over my dreams
I got lizards and snakes
runnin through my body
funny how they all have my face
Sweet dreams
Sweet dreams
You say you say you say that you have 'em
I say that you're a liar
Sweet dreams
Sweet dreams
go on go on go on and go on dream
your house is on fire
come along now
Sweet dreams
Sweet dreams
Sweet dreams
Sweet dreams

Take to the Sky

this House is like Russia
with Eyes cold and grey
you got me moving in a circle
I dyed my hair red today
I just want a little passion
to hold me in the dark
I know I've got some magic
buried deep in my heart yeah
but my priest says
you ain't savin no souls
my father says
you ain't makin any money
my Doctor says
you just took it to the limit
and here I stand
with this sword in my hand
You can say it one more time
what you don't like
Let me hear it 1 more time then
have a seat while I
take to the sky
take to the sky

my heart is like the ocean
it gets in the way so
Close to touching freedom
then I hear the guards call my name
and my priest says
you ain't savin no souls
my father says
you ain't makin any money
my Doctor says
you just took it to the limit
and here I stand
with this sword in my hand
You can say it one more time
what you don't like
Let me hear it 1 more time then
have a seat while I
take to the sky
take to the sky

if you don't like me just a little
Why do you hang around
there she goes again
wearing those purple panties
there she goes again
wearing her heart
there she goes again why do you
take it

You can say it one more time
You can say it one more time
You can say it one more time
what you don't like
Let me hear it 1 more time then
have a seat while I
take to the sky
take to the sky
take to the sky
take to the sky
take to the sky

The Happy Worker
Trevor Horn

Laughing at the smoke from the factory chimney
marching to the beat that's hot within me
hey-ho, hey-ho, we're off to work again
bells are ringing we are singing
joyous in our industry

I love my job
he loves his job
pull the lever
start the engine
pump the water
building pressure
push the piston
press the button

pump the water
building pressure
push the piston
press the button
it's a perfect job

I love my job
he loves his job
pull the lever
sister, start the engine

My thoughts right now
I picked up a magazine
Here, here they go
Fifteen hundred years,
Fifteen hundred years right here
Oh, burning witches, burning books
Burning babies and their looks
Yes, indeed
Burning everything that's sacred in my jeans

Thoughts right now
She'd been everybody else's girl
Thoughts right now
Now
Thoughts right now
Aye, right now
In my head, in my head

Never here
I'm never here
I'm never here
I'm never, never a bird
In the flower, in the tree
In the pain of the respect thereof
Yes, indeed!

Thoughts right now
What will become of me?
Become of her?
Become of we, babe?
Yeah

one with her hands
open
"Don't be afraid" She said
"No one will know it -
just you and me"
and when it's over
I'll go back

God I love to turn my little blue world upside down
God I love to turn my little blue world upside down
Inside my head the noise
Chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter
You see I'm afraid I'll always be
Still coming out of my mother upside down

Don't you love to turn this little blue girl upside down?
Oh I know you love to turn this little blue girl baby upside down
But my heart it says
You been shatter, shatter, shatter, shatter, shattered
And I know you're still a boy
Still coming out of your mother

But when you gonna stand on your own?
I say the world is sick
You say "Tell me what that makes us darlin"
You see, you always find my faults
Faster than you find your own
You say the world is getting rid of her demons
I say "Baby what have you been smoking?"

Well I dreamed, I dreamed
I dreamed I loved a black boy
My daddy would scream
Oh yeah

Don't you love to turn this little blue girl upside down?
Any kind of touch I think is better than none even upside down
But you see I'm tangled up
Got a kitten, kitten, kitten, kitten in my hair
Cincinnati, I like the word
It's the only thing we can seem to turn upside down

Well I found the secret to life
I found the secret to life
I'm okay when everything is not okay
I said I found the secret to life
I found the secret to life
I'm okay when everything is not okay
Is not okay

Oh, we turn and we turn our little blue world upside down
I said, don't we love to turn our little blue world baby upside down?
Inside my head a voice
Chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter
And it says "Girl you're all the same
Still coming out of your mothers
Still coming out of your mothers upside down"

When Space Dog decided to take down "Way Beyond the Pale" he said I could take these lyrics from his page. Thanks Space Dog for letting me post all your hard work. Your site will be missed...

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