Post by Julie on Mar 30, 2005 22:48:13 GMT -5
Hey Jupiter
no one's picking up the phone
guess it's me and me
and this little masochist
she's ready to confess
all the things
that I never thought
that she could feel and
hey Jupiter
nothings been the same
so are you gay
are you blue
thought we both could use a friend
to run to
and I thought you'd see with me
you wouldn't have to be something new
sometimes I breathe you in
and I know you know
and sometimes you take a swim
found your writing on my wall
if my heart's soaking wet
Boy your boots can leave a mess
hey Jupiter
nothings been the same
so are you gay
are you blue
thought we both could use a friend
to run to
and I thought I wouldn't have to keep
with you
hiding
thought I knew myself so well
all the dolls I had
took my leather off the shelf
your apocalypse was fab
for a girl who couldn't choose between
the shower or the bath
and I thought I wouldn't have to be
with you
a magazine
no one's picking up the hpone
guess it's clear he's gone
and this little masochist
is lifting up her dress
guess I thought I could never feel
the things I feel
hey Jupiter
It's definitely about this loss of a being that you loved so much. It makes you feel like there is an actual hole in your heart after this has happened. The pressure of how overwhelming it is and thinking that you will never see them again.
Here's Tori's description of it:
"well, i was really in a bind because, um, i was doing some bad things. i was in a love triangle with these, uhh.., i don't know if they were real men now...i'm not...i'm confused about the whole thing! let's see, i was lying in bed...um, strange things happened to you on tour. like strange englishman start sitting at the end of your bed, apparitions of dead guys . and they start singing songs to you. and this guy was definitely dead, and he was definitely singing to me. um, so i'm confused about the copyright laws. i'm not sure if i need to call his ex-wife and give him part of the song or not. but, why should i do that! she's rich...she's not nice. and so, anyway, i kept the copyright, the guys forgot who i was, and the song's mine."
-- Tori; VH1 Storytellers
"When we hit Muhammad you realize we've just taken a bend in the road. The first half of the record is about her descent in to the horror; she's got to find another way of looking at herself. On Hey Jupiter, she knows the way she has looked at relationships with men and put them on a pedestal is over. There's a sense of incredible loss because I knew that I would never be able to see the same way again. It's freeing, and [yet] there's a sense of grieving with that."
-- Tori; Ft Lauderdale Herald, Apr 12, 1996
Hey Jupiter is about the pain of separation that Amos says is very much about a real man. "I was at my lowest. I was at a hotel in Phoenix, and I realized that for once there wasn't a man I could turn to."
-- Tori; Spin Magazine, Mar 1996
"Hey Jupiter was especially hard...I’d made 13 calls from all over the world. I was getting ready to catch a plane from Phoenix to do the Vegas show, and I rang his number again, but no one was picking up. And in that moment, after all the...you know, the fiery redhead behaviour, drawing my lines, making my threats...I was lying there alone, feeling incredibly weak. Feeling like there are not enough sold-out shows, like it doesn’t matter that every American show is sold out, because I’m only alive when I’m on a stage with a piano. The rest of the time I’m just this shell. So, when I wrote Hey Jupiter, it was like, how could we have been so cruel? Because when we started it, there was so much love. Real caring. And I sit here hating someone who I had been head over heels in love with. Taking jets to meet up for four hours and then flying back to do a show the next night.’<br>-- Tori; Time Out, Dec 20, 1995
"I have a lot of gay friends who have taught me many things. Because of their experiences, they have taught me how to look at life differently. I want to be very open. I think they have gone through a lot to come out. And I really respect anybody who stands by their truth. I just like communicating with people. And I wanted to communicate with people who I think have taken a very truthful stand—in the face of a lot of judgment. Because I wasn’t a part of that world that much. I didn’t see how fierce it could be in this day and age. It shocks me sometimes. And it comes through in my work—like with Hey Jupiter, Are you gay / are you blue.”<br>-- Tori; Aquarian Weekly, Feb 21, 1996
"And the album going into Hey Jupiter and that is the point where she knows it’s over with this particular relationship, or ships, and it’s not ever gonna be what it was again. It is never going back. That’s where the whole record turns on its axis. As soon as she knows that, then you do the whole Way Down thing." -- Tori; B-Side magazine, May/Jun 1996
Where did you get the inspiration for the song “Hey Jupiter”?
“I was going through something in my life, and I felt the presence at the end of my bed of a ghost of someone I recognized. I was in a hotel room in Arizona during the Under the Pink tour. I followed this ghost into the bathroom. I turned on all the water...the shower... I let the room steam up...the water became part of the sound, almost like an orchestra...and this ghost drew a picture for me in the mirror in the steam. The way I interpreted the picture was that earth and Jupiter were in love billions of years ago, then they were separated, and now they are billions of miles apart, and this is earth’s love song to Jupiter.”
Although “Hey Jupiter” finds Amos singing “and I thought I wouldn’t have to be/With you as something new,” the lyric sheet renders the couplet as “and I thought you’d see with me/You wouldn’t have to be something new.” What happened?
“It kept coming back that way,” she says of the lyric sheet. “I kept correcting it. Seventeen times, revision after revision, it kept coming back. I looked at it, and said, ‘[It] needs to hold both of them. The girl needs to be saying it while the other voice is saying it differently, because they can’t communicate anymore.’” [The Baltimore Sun – Jan 21, 1996]
: Drive You Home (live) - Garbage
no one's picking up the phone
guess it's me and me
and this little masochist
she's ready to confess
all the things
that I never thought
that she could feel and
hey Jupiter
nothings been the same
so are you gay
are you blue
thought we both could use a friend
to run to
and I thought you'd see with me
you wouldn't have to be something new
sometimes I breathe you in
and I know you know
and sometimes you take a swim
found your writing on my wall
if my heart's soaking wet
Boy your boots can leave a mess
hey Jupiter
nothings been the same
so are you gay
are you blue
thought we both could use a friend
to run to
and I thought I wouldn't have to keep
with you
hiding
thought I knew myself so well
all the dolls I had
took my leather off the shelf
your apocalypse was fab
for a girl who couldn't choose between
the shower or the bath
and I thought I wouldn't have to be
with you
a magazine
no one's picking up the hpone
guess it's clear he's gone
and this little masochist
is lifting up her dress
guess I thought I could never feel
the things I feel
hey Jupiter
It's definitely about this loss of a being that you loved so much. It makes you feel like there is an actual hole in your heart after this has happened. The pressure of how overwhelming it is and thinking that you will never see them again.
Here's Tori's description of it:
"well, i was really in a bind because, um, i was doing some bad things. i was in a love triangle with these, uhh.., i don't know if they were real men now...i'm not...i'm confused about the whole thing! let's see, i was lying in bed...um, strange things happened to you on tour. like strange englishman start sitting at the end of your bed, apparitions of dead guys . and they start singing songs to you. and this guy was definitely dead, and he was definitely singing to me. um, so i'm confused about the copyright laws. i'm not sure if i need to call his ex-wife and give him part of the song or not. but, why should i do that! she's rich...she's not nice. and so, anyway, i kept the copyright, the guys forgot who i was, and the song's mine."
-- Tori; VH1 Storytellers
"When we hit Muhammad you realize we've just taken a bend in the road. The first half of the record is about her descent in to the horror; she's got to find another way of looking at herself. On Hey Jupiter, she knows the way she has looked at relationships with men and put them on a pedestal is over. There's a sense of incredible loss because I knew that I would never be able to see the same way again. It's freeing, and [yet] there's a sense of grieving with that."
-- Tori; Ft Lauderdale Herald, Apr 12, 1996
Hey Jupiter is about the pain of separation that Amos says is very much about a real man. "I was at my lowest. I was at a hotel in Phoenix, and I realized that for once there wasn't a man I could turn to."
-- Tori; Spin Magazine, Mar 1996
"Hey Jupiter was especially hard...I’d made 13 calls from all over the world. I was getting ready to catch a plane from Phoenix to do the Vegas show, and I rang his number again, but no one was picking up. And in that moment, after all the...you know, the fiery redhead behaviour, drawing my lines, making my threats...I was lying there alone, feeling incredibly weak. Feeling like there are not enough sold-out shows, like it doesn’t matter that every American show is sold out, because I’m only alive when I’m on a stage with a piano. The rest of the time I’m just this shell. So, when I wrote Hey Jupiter, it was like, how could we have been so cruel? Because when we started it, there was so much love. Real caring. And I sit here hating someone who I had been head over heels in love with. Taking jets to meet up for four hours and then flying back to do a show the next night.’<br>-- Tori; Time Out, Dec 20, 1995
"I have a lot of gay friends who have taught me many things. Because of their experiences, they have taught me how to look at life differently. I want to be very open. I think they have gone through a lot to come out. And I really respect anybody who stands by their truth. I just like communicating with people. And I wanted to communicate with people who I think have taken a very truthful stand—in the face of a lot of judgment. Because I wasn’t a part of that world that much. I didn’t see how fierce it could be in this day and age. It shocks me sometimes. And it comes through in my work—like with Hey Jupiter, Are you gay / are you blue.”<br>-- Tori; Aquarian Weekly, Feb 21, 1996
"And the album going into Hey Jupiter and that is the point where she knows it’s over with this particular relationship, or ships, and it’s not ever gonna be what it was again. It is never going back. That’s where the whole record turns on its axis. As soon as she knows that, then you do the whole Way Down thing." -- Tori; B-Side magazine, May/Jun 1996
Where did you get the inspiration for the song “Hey Jupiter”?
“I was going through something in my life, and I felt the presence at the end of my bed of a ghost of someone I recognized. I was in a hotel room in Arizona during the Under the Pink tour. I followed this ghost into the bathroom. I turned on all the water...the shower... I let the room steam up...the water became part of the sound, almost like an orchestra...and this ghost drew a picture for me in the mirror in the steam. The way I interpreted the picture was that earth and Jupiter were in love billions of years ago, then they were separated, and now they are billions of miles apart, and this is earth’s love song to Jupiter.”
Although “Hey Jupiter” finds Amos singing “and I thought I wouldn’t have to be/With you as something new,” the lyric sheet renders the couplet as “and I thought you’d see with me/You wouldn’t have to be something new.” What happened?
“It kept coming back that way,” she says of the lyric sheet. “I kept correcting it. Seventeen times, revision after revision, it kept coming back. I looked at it, and said, ‘[It] needs to hold both of them. The girl needs to be saying it while the other voice is saying it differently, because they can’t communicate anymore.’” [The Baltimore Sun – Jan 21, 1996]
: Drive You Home (live) - Garbage
