Tori Amos (73,89 %)
To Venus and Back (65,60 %)
In collection
Released: 1999-09-21
Type: Studio/Live
Type: Studio/Live
Ranking:
Artist:
7
Year (1999):
18
Decade (1990's):
199
Overall:
1286
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1.
Bliss
 03:43
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2.
Juárez
 03:48
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3.
Concertina
 03:56
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4.
Glory of the 80's
04:03
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5.
Lust
 03:54
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6.
Suede
04:58
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7.
Josephine
 02:30
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8.
Riot Poof
03:28
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9.
Dātura
08:25
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10.
Spring Haze
04:45
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11.
1000 Oceans
04:19
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12.
Precious Things
07:38
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13.
Cruel
06:48
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14.
Cornflake Girl
06:32
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15.
Bells for Her
05:43
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16.
Girl
04:16
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17.
Cooling
 05:09
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18.
Mr. Zebra
01:18
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19.
Cloud on My Tongue
04:59
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20.
Sugar
05:10
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21.
Little Earthquakes
07:38
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22.
Space Dog
05:47
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23.
The Waitress
10:24
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24.
Purple People
04:11
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Album length:
01:03:22
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Lyrics |
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1.
Bliss
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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 |
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2.
Juárez
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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 girls flesh and no angel came I don't think you even know what you think 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 |
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Concertina
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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 |
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4.
Glory of the 80's
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I took a taxi from LA to Venus in 1985 I was electromagnetically sucked back 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 freebie you sure look deprived" I had the Story of O in my bucket seat of my wanna be Mustang auditioning for reptiles in their Raquel Welsh campaign in the glories of the 80's you said "I'm not afraid to die" I said I don't find that remotely funny even on this space cake high and then when it all seemed clear just then you go and disappear 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 - now baby who do I gotta shag to get outta here and then when it all seemed clear just then you go and disappear 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 disappear |
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Lust
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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 emerging running free running through the underworld into your room is he real or a ghost-lie she feels she isn't heard and the veil tears and rages till her voices are remembered and his secrets can be told hey you gender nectar crystalline from the vine you know you'll drink her rolling and unrolling coiling 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 |
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Suede
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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 into my bayou. I'm sure that you've been briefed my absorption 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. |
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Josephine
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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 - 1200 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 |
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Riot Poof
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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 meat as she's going to the movie show in a bath of glitter 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 |
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Dātura
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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 ruella variegated shell ginger florida coonite 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 lonicera red velvet costus xanadu philodendron snow queen hibiscus frangipani bleeding heart persian sheild cat's whiskers royal palm sweet alyssum petting bamboo orange jasmine clitoria blue pea downy jasmine Datura frangipani dividing Canaan piece by piece o let me see dividing Canaan |
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Spring Haze
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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 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 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 for Sunday to drown |
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11.
1000 Oceans
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These tears I've cried. I've cried 1000 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 1000 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 you. these tears I've cried. I've cried. 1000 oceans and if it seems I'm. floating. in the darkness well, I can't believe that I wouldn't keep. keep you from flying. so I would cry 1000 more if that's what it takes to sail you home. sail you home. sail. sail you home. |
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12.
Precious Things
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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 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 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... |
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Cruel
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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 |
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14.
Cornflake Girl
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Never was a cornflake girl thought that was a good solution hangin with the raisin girls she's gone to the other side givin us a yo heave ho things are getting kind of gross and I go at sleepy time this is not really happening you bet your life it is Peel out the watchword just peel out the watchword She knows what's going on seems we got a cheaper feel now all the sweeteaze are gone gone to the other side with my encyclopedia they musta paid her a nice price she's puttin on her string bean love this is not really happening you bet your life it is Rabbit where'd you put the keys girl and the man with the golden gun thinks he knows so much thinks he knows so much Rabbit where'd you put the keys girl |
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15.
Bells for Her
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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 is 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 is 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 |
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16.
Girl
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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 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 Smother in our hearts a pillow to my dots One day maybe one day one day She'll be her own 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... |
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17.
Cooling
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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 The 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 she was saying And I know I have been Driven like the snow This is cooling This is cooling This is cooling Faster than I can This is cooling Faster than I can So then love walked up to like She 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 kisses And Peggy got a message for me From Jesus And I heard every word that she had said And I know I have been Driven like the snow This is cooling This is cooling Faster than I can This is cooling Faster than I can Yes, this is cooling This is cooling |
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18.
Mr. Zebra
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hello Mr Zebra can i have your sweater cause it's cold cold cold inmy hole hole hole Ratatouille Srychnine sometimes she's a friend of mine with her gigantic whirpool that will blow your mind hello Mr Zebra ran into some confusion with a Mrs Crocodile furry mussels marching on she thinks she's Kaiser Wilhelm or a civilised syllabub to blow your mind figure it out she's a goodtime fella she got a little fund to fight for Moneypenny's rights figure it out she's a goodtime fella too bad the burial was premature she said and smiled |
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Cloud on My Tongue
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Someone's knockin on my kitchen door leave the wood outside what all the girls here are freezing cold leave me with your Borneo I don't need much to keep me warm don't stop now what you're doing what you're doing my ugly one Bring them all here hard to hide a hundred girls in your hair it won't be fair if I hate her if I ate her you can go now You're already in there I'll be wearing your tattoo you're already in there Got a cloud sleeping on my tongue he goes then it goes and kiss the violets as they're waking up leave me with your Borneo leave me the way I was before You're already in there I'll be wearing your tatoo I'm already in circles and circles and circles again the girl's in circles and circles got to stop spinning circles and circles and circles again thought I was over the bridge now |
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20.
Sugar
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Dont say mornings come Dont say its up to me If I could take twenty five minutes Out of the record books Sugar, he brings me sugar Bobbys 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 Ive been gone for miles now You know, and I know I dont 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 |
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21.
Little Earthquakes
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Yellow bird flying gets shot in the wing Good year for hunters and Christmas parties And I hate and I hate and I hate And I hate elevator music The way we fight The way I'm left here silent Oh these little earthquakes Here we go again These little earthquakes Doesn't take much to RIP us into pieces We danced in graveyards with vampires till dawn We laughed in the faces of king never afraid to burn and I hate and I hate and I hate and I hate disintegration Watching us wither Black winged roses that safely changed their COLOR I can't reach you I can't reach you Give me life Give me pain Give me myself again... |
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Space Dog
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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 those girls now are in the Navy those bombs our friends can't even hurt you now and hold those tears cause they're still on your side don't hear the dogs barking don't say you know we've gone Andromeda stood with those girls before the hair in pairs it just got nasty and now those girls are gone |
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23.
The Waitress
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So I want to kill this waitress She's worked her a year longer than I If I did it fast you know that's an act of kindness But I believe in peace I believe in peace Bitch I believe in peace I want to kill this waitress I can't believe this violence in mind and is her power all in her club sandwich I want to kill this killing wish they're too many stars and not enough sky Boys all think she's living kindness ask a fellow waitress ask a fellow waitress |
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Purple People
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Well hey do you do Judo when they surround you A little mental yoga will they disappear It's grim but never dubious as motives go One thing she'll always promises promises is a show Thunder wishes it could be the Snow Wishes it could be as loved as she can be These gifts are here for her for you for me I watch me be this other thing and never know if I'm marooned or where the purple people go then lily white matricide from vicious words it doesn't leave a scratch so therefore no one's hurt Thunder wishes it could be the Snow Wishes it could be as loved as she can be These gifts are here for her for you for me And don't you know The nurses make it clear Just when you've escape you have yourself to fear a restaurant that never has to close Breakfast, every hour it could save the world so hey do you do Judo in your finery an angel's face is tricky to wear constantly Thunder wishes it could be the Snow Wishes it could be as loved as she can be These gifts are here for her for you for me For her for her |