TORI AMOS live SCARLET'S WALK

if you're a thought
you will want me
to think you
and i did invite
a guest up until
you announced
you had moved in
"what do you plan to do with all your freedom?"
the new sheriff said,
quite proud of his badge
"you must admit the land is now in good hands"
yes, time will tell
that you just life your lamp

i will follow her on her path
scarlet's walk through the voilets
just tell your gods for me
all debts are off this year
they're free to leave
yes they're free to leave
leaving terra leaving terra

there was a time
when i thought
that her destiny
should've been mine
big brave nation
but instead her medicine
now forgotten
"what do you plan to do with all your stories"
the new sheriff said,
quite proud of his badge
we'll weave them through
every rocket's red glare
and huddled masses
you just lift your lamp
i will follow.
if you're a thought
you will want me
to think you
and i did and did.

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• Scarlet
• Walk
• Tori
• Amos

[majstermaniak22]

she is soooo gifted....

[purpleoliveoil]

typically I like when she switches it up from the studio version but this is proof she's just as good as her record makes you think she is.. She just did the whole recording perfect in one take! lol.

[cdrkphoenix]

@earfolds terra is earth in portuguese =)

[MithraMusic]

@purpleoliveoil Have you ever seen her live? During her American Doll Posse tour she improvised two songs for us live without any pre-written lyrics or anything, she just made them up on the spot. One of them was this incredible thing about...well let me just link it lol. ?v=4hu8s36YgNU So it really wouldn't have surprised me if she really did just make Marianne up on the spot!

[purpleoliveoil]

@MithraMusic Yeah I heard that about Marianne too. Thanks for the clarification though because I had heard it said like she improvised the whole thing entirely or something and as a song writer who plays the piano and sings too, I thought, "that's unlikely" but your explanation makes more sense. That's not to say it's not extremely impressive though.

[MithraMusic]

@purpleoliveoil I also love when she talks about Marianne. There was some interview where she said that she played Marianne through in one take and the performance you hear on Boys for Pele is the very first time she had ever played it--she wrote the lyrics right there in the studio then sat down and recorded it perfectly the first time. If I could be her for a day...

[FuckYourGodYourLord]

The Bee keeper after this album was such a terrible shock.

[mykel77]

miss the old tori. hope her album fall 2011 is going back to its roots

[ashkanrabbit]

i remember the first time i saw this so well. I can't explain the feeling it gave me. But it still does.

[sixthcrusifix]

@earfolds Um, no ... what? LeavING Terra means exiting the earth. I have no idea where you got "Leave your Terra"

Terra = Earth in this song. The French equivalent might be a popular French saying for leaving one's country but that is not what Tori Amos means in this song. She means Leaving the Earth (Presumably as in your spirit leaving Earth).

[earfolds]

@sixthcrusifix You're wrong. "Leave your terra" means "leave your country".

[koolaidnhemlock]

merci beaucoup!