I didn't really like it back when the album came out. Now I do....time and distance and life can make us see things differently...."pick out your cloud".....
Tori Amos is always amazing. I've seen her in concert 3 times. I first heard this song in concert in West Palm back in 03 and it remains one of my faves from her. The West Palm show was a huge but it still had that intimate feel that was part of the two shows I'd seen in Detroit a decade earlier. She always ends her tours here in West Palm. She lives in Jupiter
As having the love of playing piano and composing in myself passionately....I completely L-O-V-E Tori.......lol, wish she could send me a Bosendorfer as the cloud I pick !
Before me . . .around me . . . the scene came into view . . .. . . many-hued cloud towers, just as I remember, only they are not clouds . . . flowing in shades of glowing color, every color I ever thought of and some I only remember but can't express . . . let me just stop in the cloud and watch, feel . . . not seeing, but feeling . . .. . . and there is the music . . . a thousand instruments, thousands of voices . . . melody weaving upon melody
. . . perfect counterpoint, the harmonic patterns I know so well. Just stretch out and let the clouds enfold me, and the music is all around me, inside me . . . a thousand years is but an instant . . . but an instant . . . so relaxing and absorbing, just as I remembered it. How great it will be when I return to stay forever . . .
I dunno if this is necessarily a love song after reading the lyrics... that's why I enjoy listening to Tori, She doesn't make her songs cut and dry. They're not about "I love you" Or "I Hate you", she doesn't make it that simple for us, nor should she.
That's one of the many reasons why I'm a fan. Like there's a whole scale of feelings and points of view to her songs, her work is complex, her "girls" are never about just one thing.
Where the river cross, crosses the lake where the words, jump off my pen and into your pages-do you think just like that-you can divide this you as yours, me as mine to before we were us If the rain has to separate, from itself does it say pick out your cloud? pick out your cloud (chorus) If there is, a horizontal line, that.. Who we were isn't lost, before we were us indigo in his own, blue always knew this if the rain, has to separate from itself, does it say pick out your cloud ~Tori Amos~
"...if there is, a horizontal line that runs from the map, off your body straight through the land shooting up -- right through my heart will this horizontal line when asked, know how to find where you end - where i begin "pick out your cloud" how light can play and form a ring of rain that can change bows into arrows (i found a thrill) who we were isn't lost, before we were us indigo in his own, blue always knew this if the rain has to separate, from itself does it say pick out your cloud?"
@nickymace " scarlets walk " def ! every single song on that album is beautiful ! little earthquakes, under the pink, boys for pele and scarlets walk are her bests !
@4yellowRoad After much consideration I do think I have to go for the Beekeeper it is a hauntingly beautiful album. Ever Album she has done is great although her last two are a step down I think.
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PriorySoulTemple 1 week ago
best song on this album...
ADGTHERAGE 2 weeks ago
For me....the best song of Tori...
luqueteeees 2 months ago
I didn't really like it back when the album came out. Now I do....time and distance and life can make us see things differently...."pick out your cloud".....
htownliz74 3 months ago
i never tire of this song ... so soothing ...
sorcerer1975 7 months ago 3
Pikachu clouhahoud...
Yetaxa 9 months ago 3
@Yetaxa I thought I was the only one who sung Pikachu clouhahoud! hahahaha
TaylorRama 9 months ago
wonderful wonderful song!
Nabanitacg 1 year ago
This song reminds me of swimming.
PedroPedrosoCalimero 1 year ago
blackkendoll82 you love Tori and Joni...be still my heart..what is a boy to do!
general1885 1 year ago
beautiful..
42BASSMAN 1 year ago
Tori Amos is always amazing. I've seen her in concert 3 times. I first heard this song in concert in West Palm back in 03 and it remains one of my faves from her. The West Palm show was a huge but it still had that intimate feel that was part of the two shows I'd seen in Detroit a decade earlier. She always ends her tours here in West Palm. She lives in Jupiter
westpalmscott 2 years ago
Does anybody know what she says in the back vocals in the "horizontal line" part? I've always wondered.
janotosinnumeros 2 years ago
I've heard a live version of this song, and she sings the background vocals instead, i think she's repeating
"I'm gonna stay right here, I'm gonna stay with this."
omegakyo 2 years ago
@omegakyo thank you so much!
janotosinnumeros 2 years ago
my all time favorite from tori, actually.
Anoraqnophobia 2 years ago
*sigh*
jl1100 2 years ago 2
As having the love of playing piano and composing in myself passionately....I completely L-O-V-E Tori.......lol, wish she could send me a Bosendorfer as the cloud I pick !
MistressJoysquirt 2 years ago
My favourite song, too !!!!
wbtarkus 2 years ago
This is a really beautiful song!!
VenusInPisces 2 years ago 2
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Before me . . .around me . . . the scene came into view . . .. . . many-hued cloud towers, just as I remember, only they are not clouds . . . flowing in shades of glowing color, every color I ever thought of and some I only remember but can't express . . . let me just stop in the cloud and watch, feel . . . not seeing, but feeling . . .. . . and there is the music . . . a thousand instruments, thousands of voices . . . melody weaving upon melody
0hmprakash 2 years ago
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. . . perfect counterpoint, the harmonic patterns I know so well. Just stretch out and let the clouds enfold me, and the music is all around me, inside me . . . a thousand years is but an instant . . . but an instant . . . so relaxing and absorbing, just as I remembered it. How great it will be when I return to stay forever . . .
0hmprakash 2 years ago
I think her love songs have got better, this is so romantic.
biggabob 3 years ago 4
I think that is because she found her love, and got married.
VenusInPisces 2 years ago
this sounds like a break-up song
swishinyourwalk 2 years ago
I dunno if this is necessarily a love song after reading the lyrics... that's why I enjoy listening to Tori, She doesn't make her songs cut and dry. They're not about "I love you" Or "I Hate you", she doesn't make it that simple for us, nor should she.
omegakyo 2 years ago 9
That's one of the many reasons why I'm a fan. Like there's a whole scale of feelings and points of view to her songs, her work is complex, her "girls" are never about just one thing.
janotosinnumeros 2 years ago
wonOnbi 3 years ago
wonOnbi 3 years ago
I am having a real debate with myself, I cant decide if I prefer this album to beekeeper?
nickymace 3 years ago 3
thats a hard choice........i choose bee cause of mother revoloution and hoochie woman
blackkendoll82 3 years ago
I just love this album. will never forget the time it got me through :)
MissCheekyCow 3 years ago
@nickymace i always thought " scarlets walk " was her best since under the pink and little earthquake ...
sorcerer1975 1 year ago
@nickymace " scarlets walk " def ! every single song on that album is beautiful ! little earthquakes, under the pink, boys for pele and scarlets walk are her bests !
sorcerer1975 1 year ago 3
@sorcerer1975 Put those four albums together with To Venus and Back, and that's a pretty great 5
abd012474 1 year ago
@nickymace i hated the beekeeper
outofnowhere 1 year ago
@nickymace my vote is to scarlet's walk..
4yellowRoad 4 months ago in playlist runforcover
@4yellowRoad After much consideration I do think I have to go for the Beekeeper it is a hauntingly beautiful album. Ever Album she has done is great although her last two are a step down I think.
nickymace 4 months ago
@nickymace Scarlett's walk is my favorite. this bitch was so inspired when she wrote this. I love you tori.
utoobuser101 2 months ago
my fav too :))
EllisMeddle 3 years ago
Tori is my therapy. Though, happy, sad, mad, I listen to her. She is MAGIC
Smoohah 3 years ago
Fantastic...
What a find!!!!
We like the same artists!
Thanks blackkendoll82 you ROCK!!!!
Roger.
cornirog 3 years ago
aww thanks man u too!!!!!!!!!!!!
blackkendoll82 3 years ago
You make me happy with your music. Thanks for posting this
Marsbar17 3 years ago
im glad it makes you happy..you make me happy as well visiting and hearing some of my stuff...ttyl
blackkendoll82 3 years ago