Black Dove
she was a january girl
she never let on how insane it was
in that tiny kinda scary house
by the woods
by the woods
by the woods
by the woods
black dove black dove
youre not a helicopter
youre not a copout either
honey black dove black dove
you don't need a space ship
they don't know you've already lived
on the other side of the galaxy
the other side of the galaxy
she had a january world
so many storms not right somehow
how a lion becomes a mouse
by the woods
by the woods
by the woods
by the woods
but i have to get to TEXAS
said i have to get to TEXAS
and i'll give away my blue, blue dress
my blue dress
black dove.....
she had a january girl
she never let on how insane it was
in that tiny kinda scary house
by the woods
Tori talks about Black Dove:
"When I sleep I often have nightmares. I can already hear your readers saying: 'I knew that. The way your songs sound you must really have horrible nightmares.' Just like the one I'm describing in the song Black-Dove on my last album From The Choirgirl Hotel. I see a black dove. I see its face clearly. The dove is transparent, like it is made of ice. I can see my hand through it. An auger goes through it and it is bleeding water. To get the same atmosphere musically I had to describe a scene of the movie Fargo to my musicians. A car is coming towards the camera from a long distance, very slowly. You know it will arrive in a moment. But you hope that this will never happen. My nightmares are so bad, that I mostly reject it when my friends want to take me to a cinema to watch a horror movie. Then I say: 'No, thank you. I will dream in a few hours.' Sometimes I feel like Hermann Hess' Steppenwolf... The nightmares agonized me since my childhood. I am the daughter of a Methodist preacher and as a child I was sexually abused by a friend of the family. I think that the nightmares are telling me things about me I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean. Maybe so I can get to know something more about my soul."-- Tori; Die Zeit, November 11, 1999
6 comments:
I just don't get the Tori thing, although some of the pics are pretty cute. But I do love India... and fortunately manage to get there about once every three months. Fancy that!
ooooooooooooh! Tori cleavage shot!!!
I need a napkin!
QL
holy cow. i got a 67 and i did it honestly!
I'm a HUGE Tori fan. You can probably hear her influence in my music, though maybe not so much on that first CD. Hope all is well!
50% - not so good
I finally got around to updating my own Tori Tuesday blog entry for today. Better late than never. :) Black Dove is one of my favorite songs off of that CD; that and Spark. Happy Tori Tuesday.
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