Post by Julie on Mar 15, 2005 18:02:00 GMT -5
Cloud on my Tongue
Someone's knockin on my kitchen door
This man who she was once with is now trying to get her back while she is with someone else.
leave the wood outside what all the girls
here are freezing cold leave me with your Borneo
She only wants something new from him if anything.
I don't need much to keep me warm
don't stop now what you're doin what you're doin my ugly one Bring them all here
hard to hide a hundred girls in your hair it won't be fair if I hate her if I ate her
you can go now
She doesn't want this man to be in her presence while she's with someone else because it creates so much pulling in different directions. She's telling him to leave but at the same time she's telling him to stay.
You're already in there I'll be wearing your tattoo you're already in there
He has already fucked her up, what does he want now? The emotional scars are still intact.
Got a cloud sleeping on my tongue he goes then it goes and kiss the violence as
they're waking up
leave me with your Borneo leave me the way I was before
She's asking him to let her still be hurt by him, not to want to take her back because then that fucks up the relationship that she has now and that's double the heartbreak if this guy fucks up with her yet again.
You're already in there I'll be wearing your tattoo I'm already in circles and circles
and circles again the girls in circles and circles got to stop spinning circles and
circles and circles again
Deja vous like never before. She's been through this situation with this guy a million times it feels like and the fact that he keeps coming back or she keeps coming back to him is very haunting and frustrating to her.
thought I was over the bridge now
She thought she was over him, but she is far from it.
Here's Tori's description of it:
"..there's a wonderful acceptance in Cloud On My Tongue, an acceptance of being in circles and circles again. That's its whirlpool vat. It all leads to that. --I travel a lot around the world, and I went to all sorts of places, and I ran in to different people. Borneo had something that I didn't have. It was a very free, hot, jungly place, and the people that, or a person that came from there, had something that I didn't have that I desperately wanted, which was this no rigidity. When I say Leave the wood outside, what, all the girls here are freezing cold, leave me with your Borneo...Or don't leave me with your Borneo, because I've had it before, and that's why I need the wood, because it just -- you can go now, you're already in there, whether it's pregnant or whether it's just infused. You don't even have to hang around and watch me disintegrate, because you've already done your job. You've already accomplished what you wanted, which was another scalp on your belt, and you did it. That's not one of my more favorite men songs."
-- Tori; The Baltimore Sun, 1994
"I crawled up in a flower when this one was being written it was safe there and I wasn't ready to let this one in too deep it was already too close"
-- Tori; Under The Pink Songbook
“Cloud On My Tongue, dealing with Eve... dealing with feeling inferior, that somebody else has something that you want.” [B-Side - May/June 1994]
“My only problem was, I said ‘You can go now’ after he was already in there. I mean, it had done - it was already planted, so whatever it was, that’s where I think Cloud balances out Baker Baker a bit, because it’s the Shadow side. She’s not ignorant. She knows exactly what’s happening.”
“In Cloud On My Tongue, I put all my power in this other person. I think that they have something that I don’t have. Well, of course we all have things the other person doesn’t have as far as abilities. But we ALL have emotion that’s capable of being complete for each one of us. But you can’t be complete for me. We know this in the head, but to really apply it is another thing. Because when you feel inferior, you feel inferior. Sometimes I feel inferior to men who have this raw wolf energy. I just got to this recently. It doesn’t mean that I still don’t, like, snake around and leak all over the place when I’m around one of them. I kinda go, ‘Oh, God, here it is again. What am I gonna do?’ What’s happening is that I cut that part out of myself a LONG time ago. Because I judged it to be bad, and I was afraid of it. I was afraid I wouldn’t be respected if I got in touch with that. I’m not talking strictly about sex. That’s like a form of generating that energy, but just because you’re having sex doesn’t mean you’re generating that energy. Do you see what I mean? But there are other ways of trying to get to it. Like music. Creativity tries to get you to that expression. That kundalini energy. I do it when I’m playing but I’ve really had a hard time bringing it into my life. I sit there sometimes like all the knobs have all been turned off. And I’ll see something with the knob turned on and I go, ‘How did they do that?’” [Creem - March 1994]
“So um, this is a bit of a strange story. Um... I was in a strange place in the Pacific and this um, guy, showed up. This was many, many, many, many, many years ago. And he said to me, ‘I’ve just come from Borneo, and I’ve come to take you away with me for a few days.’ And I said, ‘Well, that’s just fucking great, because my boyfriend’s here, and you know I have a boyfriend and you had a chance with me a few years back.’ And isn’t that always the way that they come...” [Atlanta, GA concert - August 21, 1999]
: Cloud on my Tongue - Tori Amos
Someone's knockin on my kitchen door
This man who she was once with is now trying to get her back while she is with someone else.
leave the wood outside what all the girls
here are freezing cold leave me with your Borneo
She only wants something new from him if anything.
I don't need much to keep me warm
don't stop now what you're doin what you're doin my ugly one Bring them all here
hard to hide a hundred girls in your hair it won't be fair if I hate her if I ate her
you can go now
She doesn't want this man to be in her presence while she's with someone else because it creates so much pulling in different directions. She's telling him to leave but at the same time she's telling him to stay.
You're already in there I'll be wearing your tattoo you're already in there
He has already fucked her up, what does he want now? The emotional scars are still intact.
Got a cloud sleeping on my tongue he goes then it goes and kiss the violence as
they're waking up
leave me with your Borneo leave me the way I was before
She's asking him to let her still be hurt by him, not to want to take her back because then that fucks up the relationship that she has now and that's double the heartbreak if this guy fucks up with her yet again.
You're already in there I'll be wearing your tattoo I'm already in circles and circles
and circles again the girls in circles and circles got to stop spinning circles and
circles and circles again
Deja vous like never before. She's been through this situation with this guy a million times it feels like and the fact that he keeps coming back or she keeps coming back to him is very haunting and frustrating to her.
thought I was over the bridge now
She thought she was over him, but she is far from it.
Here's Tori's description of it:
"..there's a wonderful acceptance in Cloud On My Tongue, an acceptance of being in circles and circles again. That's its whirlpool vat. It all leads to that. --I travel a lot around the world, and I went to all sorts of places, and I ran in to different people. Borneo had something that I didn't have. It was a very free, hot, jungly place, and the people that, or a person that came from there, had something that I didn't have that I desperately wanted, which was this no rigidity. When I say Leave the wood outside, what, all the girls here are freezing cold, leave me with your Borneo...Or don't leave me with your Borneo, because I've had it before, and that's why I need the wood, because it just -- you can go now, you're already in there, whether it's pregnant or whether it's just infused. You don't even have to hang around and watch me disintegrate, because you've already done your job. You've already accomplished what you wanted, which was another scalp on your belt, and you did it. That's not one of my more favorite men songs."
-- Tori; The Baltimore Sun, 1994
"I crawled up in a flower when this one was being written it was safe there and I wasn't ready to let this one in too deep it was already too close"
-- Tori; Under The Pink Songbook
“Cloud On My Tongue, dealing with Eve... dealing with feeling inferior, that somebody else has something that you want.” [B-Side - May/June 1994]
“My only problem was, I said ‘You can go now’ after he was already in there. I mean, it had done - it was already planted, so whatever it was, that’s where I think Cloud balances out Baker Baker a bit, because it’s the Shadow side. She’s not ignorant. She knows exactly what’s happening.”
“In Cloud On My Tongue, I put all my power in this other person. I think that they have something that I don’t have. Well, of course we all have things the other person doesn’t have as far as abilities. But we ALL have emotion that’s capable of being complete for each one of us. But you can’t be complete for me. We know this in the head, but to really apply it is another thing. Because when you feel inferior, you feel inferior. Sometimes I feel inferior to men who have this raw wolf energy. I just got to this recently. It doesn’t mean that I still don’t, like, snake around and leak all over the place when I’m around one of them. I kinda go, ‘Oh, God, here it is again. What am I gonna do?’ What’s happening is that I cut that part out of myself a LONG time ago. Because I judged it to be bad, and I was afraid of it. I was afraid I wouldn’t be respected if I got in touch with that. I’m not talking strictly about sex. That’s like a form of generating that energy, but just because you’re having sex doesn’t mean you’re generating that energy. Do you see what I mean? But there are other ways of trying to get to it. Like music. Creativity tries to get you to that expression. That kundalini energy. I do it when I’m playing but I’ve really had a hard time bringing it into my life. I sit there sometimes like all the knobs have all been turned off. And I’ll see something with the knob turned on and I go, ‘How did they do that?’” [Creem - March 1994]
“So um, this is a bit of a strange story. Um... I was in a strange place in the Pacific and this um, guy, showed up. This was many, many, many, many, many years ago. And he said to me, ‘I’ve just come from Borneo, and I’ve come to take you away with me for a few days.’ And I said, ‘Well, that’s just fucking great, because my boyfriend’s here, and you know I have a boyfriend and you had a chance with me a few years back.’ And isn’t that always the way that they come...” [Atlanta, GA concert - August 21, 1999]
: Cloud on my Tongue - Tori Amos
