Post by Julie on May 18, 2005 16:56:45 GMT -5
Sweet Sangria
I know
You
know every
desperado
and
Sharp Shooter
in the
West
You say that
I can't
see behind
The mask
of those
who call
themselves
The Good Guys
in this
who take
and
take "so are
you with
Me or not
you say
this time
decide"
Balmy days
sweet sangria
she's been gone
have you seen
her
senorita
shyly turning
away
leaving me
our fading
flame
Yeah you think
about that
What you Believe
in
It matters
now
to you and me
What you believe
in
I'm
Takin' in
I said
I'm
Takin in
What you
Believe in
it matters now
to you and
me
Before sundown
the Mexicans
leave
San Antone
the car
will then
Drop him at
the Border
the breaking
point
I know
Your people
have suffered
time and time
again
But what about
I ask you
now
the
innocents
on
both
sides
Balmy days
sweet sangria
she's been gone
have you seen
her
senorita
shyly turning
away
leaving me
your
fading flame
Yeah you think about that
What you
Believe in
It matters
now
to you
and
me
so
you give me
a no Window
I ask you,
give me
a Bloodless
Road
Tell me
Why does
Someone have to
lose?
I think this song is about realizing when a community needs a revolution. Really understanding your idea of comfortable verses uncomfortable meaning freedom.
Here's Tori's description of it:
Her prayer [in Don't Make Me Come to Vegas] is answered and instead SWEET SANGRIA finds her in Austin, Texas. There she meets a Latino revolutionary, fighting American intervention in Central and Southern America. But the more Scarlet is drawn into the fight, the more she begins to see that she can't go along with hurting innocent people - on either side. "For him the end justified the means. But although she believes in the cause, she can't load the gun.. It's about what you believe in and how far you're prepared to go."
-- Scarlet's Walk bio
"Sweet Sangria has this whole Mexican revolutionary moment. So a lot of the musical influences are coming from the land itself, and the history."
-- Tori; GalleryOfSound.com
"Well, she's [Scarlet] in Texas. she's in Austin. She's in a very liberal place in Texas where she had met people that introduced her to people that, I guess you can say, are questioning the political intregity of the good guys. quote unquote, the good guys. Meaning us, I guess, those that are called "the good guys". And so this is very much, um, a Central American question. There's a revolutionary-type character that is educating her in some of the transgressions that have happened. And some of the factual things that have happened, and also his point of view, all at the same time. And he's very much about action, and he's very passionate about it. And she's seeing somebody passionate about something. And so she begins to really understand that she's got to know what it is that she believes in. And where she's willing to go with this. Because he knows what he believes in - there's no question about that. And he stands by what he believes in. Really Sweet Sangria is their time together. It's really about them, as a unity."
-- Scarlet Stories CD
I know
You
know every
desperado
and
Sharp Shooter
in the
West
You say that
I can't
see behind
The mask
of those
who call
themselves
The Good Guys
in this
who take
and
take "so are
you with
Me or not
you say
this time
decide"
Balmy days
sweet sangria
she's been gone
have you seen
her
senorita
shyly turning
away
leaving me
our fading
flame
Yeah you think
about that
What you Believe
in
It matters
now
to you and me
What you believe
in
I'm
Takin' in
I said
I'm
Takin in
What you
Believe in
it matters now
to you and
me
Before sundown
the Mexicans
leave
San Antone
the car
will then
Drop him at
the Border
the breaking
point
I know
Your people
have suffered
time and time
again
But what about
I ask you
now
the
innocents
on
both
sides
Balmy days
sweet sangria
she's been gone
have you seen
her
senorita
shyly turning
away
leaving me
your
fading flame
Yeah you think about that
What you
Believe in
It matters
now
to you
and
me
so
you give me
a no Window
I ask you,
give me
a Bloodless
Road
Tell me
Why does
Someone have to
lose?
I think this song is about realizing when a community needs a revolution. Really understanding your idea of comfortable verses uncomfortable meaning freedom.
Here's Tori's description of it:
Her prayer [in Don't Make Me Come to Vegas] is answered and instead SWEET SANGRIA finds her in Austin, Texas. There she meets a Latino revolutionary, fighting American intervention in Central and Southern America. But the more Scarlet is drawn into the fight, the more she begins to see that she can't go along with hurting innocent people - on either side. "For him the end justified the means. But although she believes in the cause, she can't load the gun.. It's about what you believe in and how far you're prepared to go."
-- Scarlet's Walk bio
"Sweet Sangria has this whole Mexican revolutionary moment. So a lot of the musical influences are coming from the land itself, and the history."
-- Tori; GalleryOfSound.com
"Well, she's [Scarlet] in Texas. she's in Austin. She's in a very liberal place in Texas where she had met people that introduced her to people that, I guess you can say, are questioning the political intregity of the good guys. quote unquote, the good guys. Meaning us, I guess, those that are called "the good guys". And so this is very much, um, a Central American question. There's a revolutionary-type character that is educating her in some of the transgressions that have happened. And some of the factual things that have happened, and also his point of view, all at the same time. And he's very much about action, and he's very passionate about it. And she's seeing somebody passionate about something. And so she begins to really understand that she's got to know what it is that she believes in. And where she's willing to go with this. Because he knows what he believes in - there's no question about that. And he stands by what he believes in. Really Sweet Sangria is their time together. It's really about them, as a unity."
-- Scarlet Stories CD
