Y Kant Tori Read Lyrics (1988)

    "Y Kant Tori Read"

  1. The Big Picture
  2. Cool On Your Island
  3. Fayth
  4. Fire On The Side
  5. Pirates
  6. Floating City
  7. Heart Attack At 23
  8. On The Boundary
  9. You Go To My Head
  10. Etienne Trilogy

The Big Picture
Tori and Kim Bullard

someone smashed my window
broke into my brand new car
last night
caught my boyfriend looking
at another slender pair of thighs
gotta get more money
gotta get gotta get
there faster than the rest
knock ‘em off the ladder
if they even seem to stand a chance

CHORUS:
the big picture
gotta big white cloud
the big picture
is starin' at me
starin' at me

Why do I feel so threatened
that somebody else will take what's mine
babe it's only rented
no one really owns the merchandise
what about what I want
somehow it got lost somewhere inside
my mother's on my case
I told her it's my life
Well, she just died

The big picture
gotta big white cloud
the big picture
starin' at me
the big picture
on a big blank wall
the big picture
is starin' at me
starin' at me

When I can see
I'll try again
I've got my paints

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Cool on your Island
Tori and Kim Bullard

If you don't treat me better
baby i'll just run away
baby I don't know what drives you
to play these silly games
C'mon baby
I'm much stronger than you know
sometimes
i'm not afraid to let it show

CHORUS:
When will you wake up
I want you more
than the stars and the sun
but I can take only so much
cool on your island
is it cool on your island?

I got a brand new dress babe
could it make you wanna try
I guess I didn't want to notice
the stars gone from your eyes, yeah
C'mon baby
I'm much stronger than you know
sometimes
I'm not afraid to let it show

REPEAT CHORUS

We could buy an airplane
build a home in the sand
you could tell your secrets
I could understand
but then by the morning
comes crumblin' down
and as you're leaving
wait

When will you wake up
I want you more
than the stars and the sun
but I can take only so much
cool on your island
You're so cool on your island
is it cool on your island
is it cool baby

If you don't treat me better
baby i'll just run away
if you don't treat me
one day you'll wake up cold
then you'll know
you'll know
you'll know
You Love Me

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Fayth
Tori and Brad Cobb

Make it in the city
do what you can
wave to the boy
with the gun in his hand

lolipop girls pave the street
stand in line
to be in you limousine

you took my love
you took my money
you took my sex
took my love
took my money
give me

CHORUS:
Fayth
help me keep myself together
with a little more fayth
fayth
with a little more fayth
yeah fayth
I could keep our love together
with a little more fayth
I could wake up and face the day

How do you keep the romance there

when a little french maid lives downstairs
radio blasts as the baby cries
run to the dragon that runs my life

You took my love
you took my money
you took my sex
you took my love
you took my money
give me

REPEAT CHORUS

I could wake up and face the day
maybe I could start again
why am I afraid of change
maybe fayth could understand
darlin' I remember
when I held violets in my hand
love can crush
held too tight
we could bring it back alive
with a little more fayth

REPEAT CHOURS

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Fire on the Side
Tori

purple sunset
orange moon
i'm alone again without you
I knew someone had to lose

kiss goodbye
go back to your separate life
that you have with here
ashes blow in the windy skye
take my heart as you go

CHORUS:
Baby it burns
baby it burns
baby it burns
to be your fire on the side
taste my tears see how they burn
baby it burns to be your fire on the side

purple sunset
orange moon
how can the music play
when the only band is made of gold

wrapped around your hand
that I used to hold against my chest every night
but I still can hope you will see i'm your home

REPEAT CHORUS

I knew someone had to lose
kiss goodbye
go back to your separate life
that you have with her
take my heart as you go

REPEAT CHORUS

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Pirates
Tori and Kim Bullard

Traveled far from my home
foreign streets paved with stone
deep in my dreams Moroccan sand
now I sail my ship on dry land

CHORUS:
There is a light that shines on the frontier
pirates yeah pirates
and on a dark night when you feel lonely
and the world just can't understand you
pirates yeah pirates

Steal the jewel watch it break
it cuts with an eye I can't escape
the ruby heals alone I stand
when I sail my ship on dry land

There is a light that shines on the frontier
and baby someday we're gonna be there
pirates yeah pirates
and on a dark night when you feel lonely
and when the world just can't understand you
pirates yeah pirates
there is a light that shines on the frontier
pirates yeah pirates
there is a light that shines on the frontier

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Floating City
Tori

you went away why did you leave me
you know I believed you
nothing explained where are the answers
I know I need you

tell me
is your city paved with gold
is there hunger
do your people grow old
do your goverments
have secrets thet they've sold

CHORUS:
Every night I wait
take me away to your floating city
by my window at night I see the lights
to your floating city
come and take me away
I want to play
in your floating city yeah
floating city yeah

tv turns off
any of us that say we've seen you
tell me are we the only planet
that can't conceive you

will we be like Atlantis long ago
so assured that we're advanced with what we know
that our spirit never had time to grow

REPEAT CHORUS

Is it weak to look for saviours out in space
little earth she tries so hard to change our ways
sometimes she must get sick of this place

REPEAT CHORUS

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Heart Attack at 23
Tori

sirens wake me up
wake me up with a cry
things we do for attention
just a little reminder dear
I am still alive

so confused
I almost threw it all away for you
you took me higher
and you dropped me lower
than i've ever been before

CHORUS:
if I have a heart attack at 23
i'm loving you too much
if I have a heart attack at 23
wave bye-bye
you'll miss me
you'll miss me baby
if I have a heart attack at 23

all my friends
we waste so much love on our men
why can't I begin forgiving
while he been out a-messin
with his Argentine baby

REPEAT CHORUS

I must be dreaming we were together
in a land of scarlet ribbon
that tied you to me darlin'

roll roll roll roll on
but you know i'm never satisfied
with all the good things in my life
I thought I needed you to be strong
i'll still miss you when i'm gone

REPEAT CHORUS

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On the Boundary
Tori

You said you wanted safer ground
but you got caught up in the river
I was there to save you boy
but you'd rather drown

you said you were unhappy
but that was alright
better than not knowing
what's on the other side

and you know
I was always there for you
and you know I always believed in you
I guess that wasn't enough

CHORUS:
On the boundary
on the boundary baby
on the boundary
don't you need my love
you won't even let me
keep you from fallin'
from the boundary
that divides our love

I gave you a kingdom
that you could be lord in
and we both know
you loved the taste of my world
but you ran back to your corner
where you trip over your lines
look left look right no room to hide

REPEAT CHORUS

I guess that wasn't enough
I guess I wasn't enough

REPEAT CHORUS

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You go to my Head
Tori

sweet love hello
make a slave of me
I should have more control
little dove hello
you take full advantage
of my open window

when the cold of the night has washed away
all I want is to wake in your arms
and I know that I shouldn't let you stay
but i'm a lush for your love

CHORUS:
You go to my head
you go to my head
you go to my head
and you know i can never say no
to you and your friend

you call oh no
(you know you want him)
boy your heart swings in the wind
from rose to rose honeybee
go home (please stay) to that warm nest
you left minutes ago

yes I understand you give your time
you can't see i've given you my heart
all that light in your eyes is from the wine
i'm such a lush for your love

REPEAT CHORUS

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Etienne Trilogy

The Highlands (Instrumental)
Tori and Kim Bullard

Etienne
Tori

Maybe i'm a witch
lost in time
running through the fields
of Scotland by your side

Kicked out of France
but I still believe
taken from a land
far across the sea

CHORUS:
Etienne
Etienne
Hear the West Wind
Whisper my name
Etienne
Etienne
by the morning
maybe i'll remember
Who I am

Maybe you're the knight
who saved my life
maybe we faced
the fire side by side

here we are again
under the same sky
as the Gypsy Crystal
slowly dies

SECOND CHORUS:
Etienne
Etienne
Hear the West Wind
Whisper my name
Etienne
Etienne
By the morning
Maybe we'll remember
Who I am

I close my eyes see you again
I know i've held you
But I can't remember
Where or when

REPEAT SECOND CHORUS

Skyboat Song (Instrumental)
Traditional

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