Post by Julie on Mar 11, 2005 21:14:49 GMT -5
Baker Baker
Baker Baker baking a cake make me a day make me whole again and I wonder
what's in a day what's in your cake this time
I guess you heard he's gone to LA he says that behind my eyes I'm hiding and he
tells me I pushed him away that my hearts been hard to find
here there must be something here there must be something here here
Baker Baker can you explain if truly his heart was made of icing and I wonder how
mine could taste maybe we could change his mind
I know you're late for your next parade you come to make sure that I'm not
running well I ran from him in all kinds of ways guess it was his turn this time
time thought I'd make friends with time thought we'd be flying maybe not this time
Baker Baker baking a cake make me a day make me whole again and I wonder if
he's ok if you see him say hi
Here's Tori's description of it:
Baker Baker is kind of tragic in a way, because -- I've had to look at how I treated men, and on this record, I think with Baker Baker, to deal with a man that truly loved me, but that I wasn't emotionally available for. You know how women always say men aren't emotionally available. Well, a lot of women aren't emotionally available. It's like, if you're vulnerable, we say, 'Look, we need you to be sensitive.' So you become sensitive, and yet we go, 'You've got no fuckin' backbone,' and we kick you in the face and run off with a ski trainer."
-- Tori; The Baltimore Sun, '94
"There's a stream that runs up in the rockies and it runs into a bigger stream and finally makes it's way to a river but never the ocean and I was thinking about being whole again and that you don't have to make it to the ocean to be whole again maybe you freeze and become a snow witch or maybe a sandwich and melt away and that's o.k. i think."
-- Tori; Under The Pink Songbook
“In Baker Baker, not blaming... that’s where gaining my power is coming from, being able to say I am the one who has not been able to be intimate, I’m the one who pushed him away.”<br>
“I took from the rape that man’s hatred of women, so much so that I couldn’t access parts of myself. It’s as though a computer chip has been put in, to cut out contact with your core self, your central energy source. And that hatred ran so deep that I just numbed myself to survive. Even sexually, after the rape, I became the vampire, I drank but would not let the men drink. And I had to be a hooker to have sex. Having felt I let myself, and all women, down because of my total vulnerability the night I was raped. I then had to continually tell myself I was in complete control, so I had to feel like I was getting paid. Even in Baker Baker, on this album, it says I’m the one who was endlessly unavailable, to Eric, even when having sex. And now the only way I’m getting out of all this is with him. The only way back now having taken so much hatred from one man is to accept so much love from another. But it’s a long, slow process.” [Hot Press (Ireland) - February 23, 1994]
: strange - Tori Amos
Baker Baker baking a cake make me a day make me whole again and I wonder
what's in a day what's in your cake this time
I guess you heard he's gone to LA he says that behind my eyes I'm hiding and he
tells me I pushed him away that my hearts been hard to find
here there must be something here there must be something here here
Baker Baker can you explain if truly his heart was made of icing and I wonder how
mine could taste maybe we could change his mind
I know you're late for your next parade you come to make sure that I'm not
running well I ran from him in all kinds of ways guess it was his turn this time
time thought I'd make friends with time thought we'd be flying maybe not this time
Baker Baker baking a cake make me a day make me whole again and I wonder if
he's ok if you see him say hi
Here's Tori's description of it:
Baker Baker is kind of tragic in a way, because -- I've had to look at how I treated men, and on this record, I think with Baker Baker, to deal with a man that truly loved me, but that I wasn't emotionally available for. You know how women always say men aren't emotionally available. Well, a lot of women aren't emotionally available. It's like, if you're vulnerable, we say, 'Look, we need you to be sensitive.' So you become sensitive, and yet we go, 'You've got no fuckin' backbone,' and we kick you in the face and run off with a ski trainer."
-- Tori; The Baltimore Sun, '94
"There's a stream that runs up in the rockies and it runs into a bigger stream and finally makes it's way to a river but never the ocean and I was thinking about being whole again and that you don't have to make it to the ocean to be whole again maybe you freeze and become a snow witch or maybe a sandwich and melt away and that's o.k. i think."
-- Tori; Under The Pink Songbook
“In Baker Baker, not blaming... that’s where gaining my power is coming from, being able to say I am the one who has not been able to be intimate, I’m the one who pushed him away.”<br>
“I took from the rape that man’s hatred of women, so much so that I couldn’t access parts of myself. It’s as though a computer chip has been put in, to cut out contact with your core self, your central energy source. And that hatred ran so deep that I just numbed myself to survive. Even sexually, after the rape, I became the vampire, I drank but would not let the men drink. And I had to be a hooker to have sex. Having felt I let myself, and all women, down because of my total vulnerability the night I was raped. I then had to continually tell myself I was in complete control, so I had to feel like I was getting paid. Even in Baker Baker, on this album, it says I’m the one who was endlessly unavailable, to Eric, even when having sex. And now the only way I’m getting out of all this is with him. The only way back now having taken so much hatred from one man is to accept so much love from another. But it’s a long, slow process.” [Hot Press (Ireland) - February 23, 1994]
: strange - Tori Amos
