Post by Julie on Apr 28, 2005 15:57:01 GMT -5
Cooling
maybe I didn't like to hear
but I still can't believe speed racer is dead
so then I thought I'd make some plans
but fire thought
she'd really rather
be water instead
and Peggy got a message for me
from Jesus
and I heard every word
that you have said
and I know I have been
driven like the snow
but this is cooling
faster than I can
this is cooling faster than I
but do I hate what she is
or do I want to be her
and don't we love something fresh
anything new virgin
woman you got too many brambles
hiding under these bushes
woman you got too may brambles
but I always liked a good storm
always good for a storm
so then love walked up to like
and said I know that you don't like me much
let's go for a ride
this ocean is wrapped around
that pineapple tree
and is your place in Heaven worth giving up
these kisses
these
yes these kisses
I think this song is about being really angry and needing to cool down, unwind, and relax or having something extremely traumatic happen in your life and needing to really sit down and take it in. It's the piling up of overwhelming and hectic situations being released into a puddle where you don't have to think about it at all while this song is playing...just pure serenity and forgetfullness of where you are...cooling.
Here's Tori's description of it:
"She was supposed to be on Pele, and she told me to 'fuck off'. Then she was supposed to be on Choirgirl, and she said, 'you know....no. And then she said she'd like to be played live.....so i play her alot. This is sorta my goodbye to you."
-- Tori intro to song; To Venus And Back: Live Still Orbiting
"So, um, i wrote this song, um, when i lived in a bridge. When I didn't live on land or I didn't live on water. it was this thing in the air...and you kinda went under it as a boat. and my piano was just a boat...sorta where the boats went under. and I was writing a song for Boys For Pele, and um...I'm doing my habit, I'm sorry! and uh, I uh, thought it was gonna make the record and it didn't. and it didn't make this record, but I think it's probably one of our favorites."
-- Tori intro to song; in-concert
"I wish she had been on Pele, cause I think it would have been kinda cool for a volcano to say 'This is cooling faster than I can'."
-- Tori; Boston FNX AIDS benefit, 12/03/99
"Cooling is a song that was written for Boys for Pele and it didn’t really fit in the album, so it came out as a B side for Spark in England; you can get it as an import. And I play it a lot now; I tried to put it on this record but it didn’t really fit."
-- Tori; TVGEN/Yahoo Chat, Aug 5, 1998
"I usually try not to define my lyrics too much. I think it's really important that people find it in their own way. But when I wrote 'Cooling," I had been in Hawaii, and I was really on a sensory level with pineapples--the smell of them--they had an effect on me while I was there. I sound like I'm talking a load of gibberish, but I don't want to start talking about who it is I'm referring to in that song. That's why I thought it was best to keep it in that metaphorical world." [Women Who Rock - January 2004]
maybe I didn't like to hear
but I still can't believe speed racer is dead
so then I thought I'd make some plans
but fire thought
she'd really rather
be water instead
and Peggy got a message for me
from Jesus
and I heard every word
that you have said
and I know I have been
driven like the snow
but this is cooling
faster than I can
this is cooling faster than I
but do I hate what she is
or do I want to be her
and don't we love something fresh
anything new virgin
woman you got too many brambles
hiding under these bushes
woman you got too may brambles
but I always liked a good storm
always good for a storm
so then love walked up to like
and said I know that you don't like me much
let's go for a ride
this ocean is wrapped around
that pineapple tree
and is your place in Heaven worth giving up
these kisses
these
yes these kisses
I think this song is about being really angry and needing to cool down, unwind, and relax or having something extremely traumatic happen in your life and needing to really sit down and take it in. It's the piling up of overwhelming and hectic situations being released into a puddle where you don't have to think about it at all while this song is playing...just pure serenity and forgetfullness of where you are...cooling.
Here's Tori's description of it:
"She was supposed to be on Pele, and she told me to 'fuck off'. Then she was supposed to be on Choirgirl, and she said, 'you know....no. And then she said she'd like to be played live.....so i play her alot. This is sorta my goodbye to you."
-- Tori intro to song; To Venus And Back: Live Still Orbiting
"So, um, i wrote this song, um, when i lived in a bridge. When I didn't live on land or I didn't live on water. it was this thing in the air...and you kinda went under it as a boat. and my piano was just a boat...sorta where the boats went under. and I was writing a song for Boys For Pele, and um...I'm doing my habit, I'm sorry! and uh, I uh, thought it was gonna make the record and it didn't. and it didn't make this record, but I think it's probably one of our favorites."
-- Tori intro to song; in-concert
"I wish she had been on Pele, cause I think it would have been kinda cool for a volcano to say 'This is cooling faster than I can'."
-- Tori; Boston FNX AIDS benefit, 12/03/99
"Cooling is a song that was written for Boys for Pele and it didn’t really fit in the album, so it came out as a B side for Spark in England; you can get it as an import. And I play it a lot now; I tried to put it on this record but it didn’t really fit."
-- Tori; TVGEN/Yahoo Chat, Aug 5, 1998
"I usually try not to define my lyrics too much. I think it's really important that people find it in their own way. But when I wrote 'Cooling," I had been in Hawaii, and I was really on a sensory level with pineapples--the smell of them--they had an effect on me while I was there. I sound like I'm talking a load of gibberish, but I don't want to start talking about who it is I'm referring to in that song. That's why I thought it was best to keep it in that metaphorical world." [Women Who Rock - January 2004]
