Tori Amos  Not From Your Tribe

BLISS

JUÁREZ

CONCERTINA

GLORY OF THE 80'S

LUST

SUEDE

JOSEPHINE

RIOT POOF

DATURA

SPRING HAZE

1000 OCEANS

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Tori Amos  Not From Your Tribe. Soile & Johanna Lehtonen, 2002.

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Soile & Johanna Lehtonen

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BLISS

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 the circuitry
what it means to be
made of you but not enough for 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




JUÁREZ

dropped of 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 rasta man’s head
and the desert – she must be blessed and
no angel came.

there’s 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.




CONCERTINA

clouds descencing 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 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 concertina
concertina try infrared 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 could all get way
too cheerful concertina I know
the truth lies between the
1st and the 40th drink clouds
descending




GLORY OF THE 80’S

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 in up lines
and two bugle bo models saying ’baby,
it’s a freebee 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 perty barbies 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 – nowbaby
who fo 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 you said
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
sure you’re out there orbiting around
wish I had you back now
I met a drag king call venus
she had a velvet hologram she said
’my husband ran off with 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




LUST

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




SUEDE

suede. you always felt like suede. there are days I feel your twin.
peekaboo. hiding underneath your skin. jets. are rewing yes rewing
from a central source and this. has power over me. not because you feel
something or don’t feel something for me but because. mess. so big. it can swallow swallow
her whole star intact. call me ’evil’ call me ’tide is on
your side’ anything that you want. everybody 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 rewing yes rewing from an ether
twist. call me ’evil’. little sister. I guess i’d do the same. little sister. you’ll forgive me one day.




JOSEPHINE

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 – 1.200
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




RIOT POOF

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 cungo 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 dried lean meat as she’s going to the movie show
in a bath of glitter and a tiny shiver she crawls through your java sea
black sahara I’m stepping in to you 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 bomb on the bomb




DATURA

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 dolla eucalyptus
white african iris
katie’s charm ruellia
variegated shell ginger
florida coontie
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 shield
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




SPRING HAZE

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
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
unseen 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




1000 OCEANS

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 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 would keep. keep you from flying.
so I will cry 1000 more if that’s what it takes
to sail you home
sail you home. sail. sail you home




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