"Leather" interpretations

[Julie14]

LEATHER look I'm standing naked
before you don't you want more than my
sex I can scream as loud as your last
one but I can't claim innocence oh god
could it be the weather oh god why am I
here if love isn't forever and it's NOT
THE WEATHER hand me my leather I
could just pretend that you love me the
night would lose all sense of fear but
why do I need you to love me when you
can't hold what I hold dear I almost ran
over an angel he had a nice big fat cigar
"IN A SENSE" he said "you're alone
here so if you jump you best jump far" . . .

Tori's description of "Leather":
"A hole opens sometimes that I fall through a bit like the madhatter. I guess where memories coughing in loose molecules come and chase me around for a while. I felt like I had lived 20 different lifetimes from birth through death during the writing of this song. When I looked up from the piano and at the clock, thinking I was late for someone, it had only been 8 minutes."
...Tori Amos

My interpretation of "Leather":
"It's so shallow when all a person wants out of a relationship is good sex. I mean, then it's so empty and there isn't any substance so what's the damn point!"
...Julie H.

[Julie]

LEATHER look I'm standing naked
before you don't you want more than my
sex
She is frustrated that she is just a body to this man that she just "made love" to.

I can scream as loud as your last
one but I can't claim innocence oh god
could it be the weather oh god why am I
here if love isn't forever and it's NOT
THE WEATHER hand me my leather
She is demanding that if she is nothing but a body to this man that she is leaving.

I
could just pretend that you love me the
night would lose all sense of fear but
why do I need you to love me when you
can't hold what I hold dear
She is trying to see it through his eyes and go along as if it doesn't matter if he doesn't love her as long as she loves him. But then she realizes that he doesn't deserve her love if he doesn't even cherish or respect it.

I almost ran
over an angel he had a nice big fat cigar
"IN A SENSE" he said "you're alone
here so if you jump you best jump far" . . .

Here's Tori's description of it:
"A hole opens sometimes that I fall through a bit like the madhatter. I guess where memories coughing in loose molecules come and chase me around for a while. I felt like I had lived 20 different lifetimes from birth through death during the writing of this song. When I looked up from the piano and at the clock, thinking I was late for someone, it had only been 8 minutes."
-- Tori; Little Earthquakes Songbook

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