To Venus & Back

Don't say morning's come
Don't say it's up to me
If i could take twenty five minutes
Out of the record books
Sugar, he brings me sugar

Bobby's collecting bees
And hammers, he used one on me
Cold war with little boys
Get in with a bubble gum trade and

Sugar, bring 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

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
I know the robins bring, they bring me many things
But sugar, he brings me sugar

From in the shadow she calls
And in the shadow she finds a way finds a way
And in the shadow she crawls
Clutching her faded photograph my image under her thumb
Yes with a message for my heart
Yes with a message for my heart

She's been everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
Everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own


And in the doorway they stay
And laugh as violins fill with water
Screams from the bluebells can't make them go away
We'll i'm not seventeen but i've cuts on my knees
Falling down as the winter takes one more cherry tree


She's been everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
Everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own


Everyone else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
Rushin' rivers thread so thin limitation
Everyone else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
Dreams with the flying pigs turbid blue and the drugstores too safe
In their coats anda in their do's yeah
Everyone else's girl maybe one day maybe one day one day one day
She'll be her own
Smother in our hearts a pillow to my dots


And in the mist there she rides
And castles are burning in my heart
And as i twist i hold tight
And i ride to work every morning wondering why
"sit in the chair and be good now"
And become all that they told you
The white coats enter her room
And i'm callin' my baby callin' my baby callin' my baby callin'
Everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
Everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
Everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own


Acoustic piano, vocal, sampled strings, backgrounds - tori amos
Guitar and bass - steve caton
Drum and keyboard programming - eric rosse
Recorded by eric rosse
Mixed by jon kelly
Produced by tori amos and eric rosse

Maybe i didn't like to hear
But i still can't believe speed racer is dead
So then i thought i'd make some plans
But fire thought she'd really rather be water instead

And peggy got a message for me
From jesus
And i've heard every word that you have said
And i know i have been driven like the snow

This is cooling
Faster than i can
This is cooling
Faster than i can

But do i hate what she is
But do i want to be her
And don't we love something fresh
Anything new, virgin

Woman you got too many brambles
Hiding under these bushes
Woman you got too many brambles
But i always liked a good storm
I'm always good for a storm

So then love walked up to like
And said i know that you don't like me much
Let's go for a ride
This ocean is wrapped around that pineapple tree

And is your place in heaven
Worth giving up these kisses
These, these kisses

And peggy got a message for me
From jesus
And i've heard every word that you have said
And i know i have been driven like the snow, but

This is cooling
Faster than i can
Hey yes, faster than i can
Hey, this is cooling
This is cooling

So don't give me respect don't give me a piece of your preciousness
Flaunt all she's got in our old neighbourhood
I'm sure she'll make a few friends
Even the rain bows down let us pray as you cock-cock-cock your mane
No cigarettes only peeled havanas for you i can be cruel
I don't know why
Why can't my ba.ll.oo.n stay up in a perfectly windy sky
I can be cruel i don't know why
Dance with the sufis celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain
Lover brother bogenvilla my vine twists around your need
Even the rain is sharp like today as you sh-sh-shock me sane
No cigarettes only peeled havanas for you i can be cruel

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
Steady as it comes
Right down
To you
I've said it all
So maybe we're a bliss
Of another kind
Lately, i'm in to 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
Steady as it comes
Right down to you
I've said it all
So maybe you're a 4 horse engine
With a power drive
A hot kachina who wants into mine
Take it with your terracide
We're a bliss
Of another kind

Way to go mr microphone
Show us all what you don't know
Centuries secret societies
He's out commander still
Space dog

So sure we were on something
Your feet are finally on the ground he said
So sure we were on something
Your feet are just on the ground girl


Rain and snow
Our engines have been receiving your eager call
There's colonel dirtyfishydishcloth
He'll distract her good
Don't worry so


And to the one you thought was on your side
She can't understand
She truly believes the lies


Lemon pie
He's coming through
Our commander still space dog
Lines secure space dog


Deck the halls
I'm young again
I'm you again
Racing turtles
The grapefruit is winning
Seems i keep getting this story twisted
So where's neil when you need him
Deck the halls
It's you again
It's you again
Somewhere someone must know the ending
Is she still pissing in the river now
Heard she's gone
Moved into a trailer park


So sure we were on something
[so sure those girls now are in the navy]
Your feet finally on the ground he said
[those bombs our friends can't even hurt you now]
So sure we were on something
[and hold those tears cause they're still on your side]
You feet just on the ground girl
[don't hear the dogs barking]
So sure we were on something
[don't say you know we've gone andromeda]
Your feet finally on the ground he said
[stood with those girls before]
So sure we were on something
[the hair in pairs it just got nasty]
Your feet are just on the ground
[and now those girls are gone]

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 outto somewhere
N a single engine cessna
You say we'll never make it there
All we do is circle it
Uh oh. let go. off on my way
Unsee 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 just 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
Ad 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
Waitng on sunday to drown
Why. does. it. always end up like this
Waiting on sunday
So i get creamed
Waiting for sunday to drown

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 lean dried meatas she's
Going to the movie show
In a bath of gliter and a tiny shiver
She crawls through your lava sea
Black sahara
I'm stepping into 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

So i ran faster
But it caught me here
Yes my loyalties turned
Like my ankle
In the seventh grade
Running after billy
Running after the rain

These precious things
Let them bleed
Let them wash away
These precious things
Let them break their hold over me


He said you're really an ugly girl
But i like the way you play
And i died
But i thanked him
Can you believe that
Sick sick
Holding on to his picture
Dressing up every day
I wanna smash the faces
Of those beautiful boys
Those christian boys
So you can make me cum
That doesn't make you jesus


These precious things
Let them bleed
Let them wash away
These precious things
Let them break their hold over me


I remember
Yes in my peach party dress
No one dared
No one cared
To tell me where the pretty girls are
Those demigods
With their nine-inch nails and little fascist panties tucked inside the heart of every nice girl


These precious things
Let them bleed
Let them wash away
These precious things
Let them break
Let them wash away
These these precious things
Let them bleed now
Let them wash away
These these precious things
Let them break their hold over me


Precious ...
Precious ...

And through the life force and there goes her friend
On her nishiki it's out of time
And through the portal they can make amends

Hey would you say whatever we're blanket friends
Can't stop what's coming
Can't stop what's on its way


And through the walls they made their mudpies
I've got your mind i said
She said i've your voice
I said you don't need my voice girl
You have your own
But you never thought it was enough of
So they went years and years
Like sisters blanket girls
Always there through that and this
There's nothing we cannot ever fix i said


Can't stop what's coming
Can't stop what's on its way
Bells and footfalls and soldiers and dolls
Brothers and lovers she and i were
Now she seems to be sand under his shoes
There's nothing i can do
Can't stop what's coming
Can't stop what's on its way


And now i speak to you are you in there
You have her face and her eyes
But you are not her
And we go at each other like blank ettes
Who can't find their thread and their bare


Can't stop loving
Can't stop what is on its way
And i see it coming
And it's on its way


Prepared upright piano and vocal - tori amos
Prepared by john philip shenale and eric rosse
Mixed by ross cullum.

Clouds descending
I'm not policing
What you think and dream
I run into your thought from
Across the room
Just another trick can i
Weather this
I've got a fever above my waist
You got a squeeze box on your knee
I know the truth is in between the
1st and the 40th drink
Concertina concertina a chill 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 too far
Too far too far it could all get way too cheerful
Concertina i know the truth lies in
Between the 1st and 40th drink
Clouds descending