Post by Julie on May 23, 2005 10:08:07 GMT -5
Scarlet's Walk
if you're a thought
you will want me
to think you
and I did
invited a Guest
up until you announced
that
you had moved in
"what do you plan to do
with all your freedom?"
the new sheriff said,
quite proud of his
Badge
"you must admit the Land is now
in good hands"
yes, time will tell that
you just lift your lamp
I will follow
Her on her path
Scarlet's Walk
through the violets
just tell your
Gods for me
all debts are off this year
they're free to leave
yes they're free
to leave
leaving terra
leaving terra
there was a time
when I thought that
Her destiny
should've been
mine
Big Brave Nation
but instead her Medicine
now forgotten
"what do you plan to do
with all your stories"
the new sheriff said,
quite proud of his Badge
we'll weave them through
every
rocket's red glare
and
huddled masses
you just lift your lamp
I will follow
Her on her path
Scarlet's Walk
through the violets
just tell your
Gods for me
all debts are off this year
they're fre to leave
yes they're free
to leave
leaving terra
leaving terra
if you're a thought
you will want me
to think you
and I did
and I did
Here's Tori's description of it:
On SCARLET'S WALK she traces the footsteps of the early European settlers along the east coast and passes through the capital of the Cherokee nation. "In the song, America is a young girl looking over the water at another young girl, who may be called France or Spain or England. She's curious so she invites them over. Pretty soon, they've moved in and taken everything - the husband, the house and the job - and the new sheriff is in charge." The walk also picks up the story of the grandfather of Amos's grandmother, a full-blooded Cherokee.
-- Scarlet's Walk bio
The record's climactic tour de force is Scarlet's Walk, a séance-style spin through the Gothic South, its title evoking both the deaths of American Indians on the Trail of Tears and Gone With the Wind's homesick heroine. All organs, horns, and echoing drums, the song wraps Amos in layers of down-home creepiness. A man with a badge asks her: "What do you plan to do with all your stories?" She tells him she plans to bury them with all the other legends, wisdom, and "medicines" squandered throughout America's history, then stretches the word terra--signifying both Scarlett O'Hara's ruined estate and all that blood-soaked, hallowed earth--into a little earthquake.
-- Will Hermes, Spin Magazine, Nov 2002
"I think she's ready now. I think that she's been preparing for this. And breaking herself down and letting herself soar, and shedding ideas and ways of being. To be able to take this in. You know, this is a climax for her. Well, she's been through St. Augustine which was one of the early settlements from the Spanish. And she's walked those streets, and um, she's been to the early settlements in Massachusetts. And she's been on the Cape, and she knows the influences and their trials. And so now that she is working her way up, uhh, you know, through Savannah, and there's a balmy sweetness she has with, with Savannah. She moves into Charleston and she's picking up the threads of the early settlers that came. And what they're needs were. And she's trying to find compassion for all that as she then goes to walk the walk. Which is, yes, a breeze through Jonesboro. And she then moves up through the Cherokee sacred land - what was their capital. And she moves through where the Trail of Tears began for the Cherokee people. And this is explored in Scarlet's Web. And I think that as she walks this walk and is able to feel it with every step and in herself there is a um a humbling of soul and there is a commitment that she makes to a voice. Whether you call it the ancestors - to a belief - to a spiritual path. To something that is ringing true for her. She couldn't follow Sweet Sangria. She couldn't follow his path. But this is something that is true to her. This walk in Scarlet's Walk. This is her map. He found his and was living it. And she is finding hers and is ready to live it. In a way, there is an honoring of my ancestors in this that escaped the Trail of Tears - well I should say survived it - nobody escaped it - but survived it. And put their roots down around the Smokey Mountains, and from Chattanooga to the Carolinas. And I think that the stories that got passed down through the generations, they have taken root inside of myself. Ahh, and there is a coming home with this song. There's a deep coming home and there's also a commitment to being a night watchman for the sacred land and this place that we call America. Being a caretaker. Along with many, many other people that are being called at this time to light the torch within themselves. To know that what we do now in these very troubled times. What we do in them will effect the next generation in such a complete way. It doesn't mean there's no time for giggles or anything else, you can do that. But it is something that takes her right through her skin, through her organs, through her bones - and grabs her and shakes her and holds her and say, 'do you know where you stand as you walk?'"
-- Scarlet Stories CD
if you're a thought
you will want me
to think you
and I did
invited a Guest
up until you announced
that
you had moved in
"what do you plan to do
with all your freedom?"
the new sheriff said,
quite proud of his
Badge
"you must admit the Land is now
in good hands"
yes, time will tell that
you just lift your lamp
I will follow
Her on her path
Scarlet's Walk
through the violets
just tell your
Gods for me
all debts are off this year
they're free to leave
yes they're free
to leave
leaving terra
leaving terra
there was a time
when I thought that
Her destiny
should've been
mine
Big Brave Nation
but instead her Medicine
now forgotten
"what do you plan to do
with all your stories"
the new sheriff said,
quite proud of his Badge
we'll weave them through
every
rocket's red glare
and
huddled masses
you just lift your lamp
I will follow
Her on her path
Scarlet's Walk
through the violets
just tell your
Gods for me
all debts are off this year
they're fre to leave
yes they're free
to leave
leaving terra
leaving terra
if you're a thought
you will want me
to think you
and I did
and I did
Here's Tori's description of it:
On SCARLET'S WALK she traces the footsteps of the early European settlers along the east coast and passes through the capital of the Cherokee nation. "In the song, America is a young girl looking over the water at another young girl, who may be called France or Spain or England. She's curious so she invites them over. Pretty soon, they've moved in and taken everything - the husband, the house and the job - and the new sheriff is in charge." The walk also picks up the story of the grandfather of Amos's grandmother, a full-blooded Cherokee.
-- Scarlet's Walk bio
The record's climactic tour de force is Scarlet's Walk, a séance-style spin through the Gothic South, its title evoking both the deaths of American Indians on the Trail of Tears and Gone With the Wind's homesick heroine. All organs, horns, and echoing drums, the song wraps Amos in layers of down-home creepiness. A man with a badge asks her: "What do you plan to do with all your stories?" She tells him she plans to bury them with all the other legends, wisdom, and "medicines" squandered throughout America's history, then stretches the word terra--signifying both Scarlett O'Hara's ruined estate and all that blood-soaked, hallowed earth--into a little earthquake.
-- Will Hermes, Spin Magazine, Nov 2002
"I think she's ready now. I think that she's been preparing for this. And breaking herself down and letting herself soar, and shedding ideas and ways of being. To be able to take this in. You know, this is a climax for her. Well, she's been through St. Augustine which was one of the early settlements from the Spanish. And she's walked those streets, and um, she's been to the early settlements in Massachusetts. And she's been on the Cape, and she knows the influences and their trials. And so now that she is working her way up, uhh, you know, through Savannah, and there's a balmy sweetness she has with, with Savannah. She moves into Charleston and she's picking up the threads of the early settlers that came. And what they're needs were. And she's trying to find compassion for all that as she then goes to walk the walk. Which is, yes, a breeze through Jonesboro. And she then moves up through the Cherokee sacred land - what was their capital. And she moves through where the Trail of Tears began for the Cherokee people. And this is explored in Scarlet's Web. And I think that as she walks this walk and is able to feel it with every step and in herself there is a um a humbling of soul and there is a commitment that she makes to a voice. Whether you call it the ancestors - to a belief - to a spiritual path. To something that is ringing true for her. She couldn't follow Sweet Sangria. She couldn't follow his path. But this is something that is true to her. This walk in Scarlet's Walk. This is her map. He found his and was living it. And she is finding hers and is ready to live it. In a way, there is an honoring of my ancestors in this that escaped the Trail of Tears - well I should say survived it - nobody escaped it - but survived it. And put their roots down around the Smokey Mountains, and from Chattanooga to the Carolinas. And I think that the stories that got passed down through the generations, they have taken root inside of myself. Ahh, and there is a coming home with this song. There's a deep coming home and there's also a commitment to being a night watchman for the sacred land and this place that we call America. Being a caretaker. Along with many, many other people that are being called at this time to light the torch within themselves. To know that what we do now in these very troubled times. What we do in them will effect the next generation in such a complete way. It doesn't mean there's no time for giggles or anything else, you can do that. But it is something that takes her right through her skin, through her organs, through her bones - and grabs her and shakes her and holds her and say, 'do you know where you stand as you walk?'"
-- Scarlet Stories CD
