Post by Julie on Jun 6, 2005 17:42:22 GMT -5
GENERAL JOY General Joy
I know I know you'll take me
there - where your boys were left
behind General Joy it seems you need
a soldier girl - now "they" have Liberty
gagged by boat by tram by motorbus could
it be the fates are protecting us from the
Hawks that have stolen the bird from the sky
and I know you will always love Sorrow is that why
you gave her dress to Happiness? 'cause it matches
her eyes when she cries General Joy it seems you
don't love your Bride generally you're friends but she
is not the love of your life to dye to perm to change
your hair or your wife the possibilities are there
and its time for you to decide General Joy I
know I know you'll take me there - but you'll
need strength from within General Joy it
seems you need a soldier girl - and a
willing coalition by boat by tram by
motorbus could it be the Hawks are
proteching us from the Men who
have no assumed their name
Here's Tori's description of it:
"The Desert Garden is very much about the crossroads. It's a place where you must make choices, grave choices. This is where are garden of sensuality differs from the Garden of Eden because in a place where the creator is the feminine scribe telling the story, the bard, in our book of genesis, in our 'In the beginning' we as women were encouraged to eat from the tree of knowledge because that is how we could help our pride and our tribe and if we don't then we would be subservient and unequal to the male and therefore cannot help him and cannot serve the pride. As a songwriter and someone who chronicles time, um, I have to feel the pulse of what is current. I was able to include General Joy on the record because I wrote it, um, in July 2004 and recorded it and it was relevant then and it is relevant again now. We are still at war, as of this taping and General Joy is very much a current figure. Or not because there are not a lot of Generals that we would call General Joy and that is the point. General Joy has lost his boys and they have been left behind, he needs a solder girl now that liberty has been gagged."
-- Tori; The Beekeeper Limited Edition Bonus DVD
I know I know you'll take me
there - where your boys were left
behind General Joy it seems you need
a soldier girl - now "they" have Liberty
gagged by boat by tram by motorbus could
it be the fates are protecting us from the
Hawks that have stolen the bird from the sky
and I know you will always love Sorrow is that why
you gave her dress to Happiness? 'cause it matches
her eyes when she cries General Joy it seems you
don't love your Bride generally you're friends but she
is not the love of your life to dye to perm to change
your hair or your wife the possibilities are there
and its time for you to decide General Joy I
know I know you'll take me there - but you'll
need strength from within General Joy it
seems you need a soldier girl - and a
willing coalition by boat by tram by
motorbus could it be the Hawks are
proteching us from the Men who
have no assumed their name
Here's Tori's description of it:
"The Desert Garden is very much about the crossroads. It's a place where you must make choices, grave choices. This is where are garden of sensuality differs from the Garden of Eden because in a place where the creator is the feminine scribe telling the story, the bard, in our book of genesis, in our 'In the beginning' we as women were encouraged to eat from the tree of knowledge because that is how we could help our pride and our tribe and if we don't then we would be subservient and unequal to the male and therefore cannot help him and cannot serve the pride. As a songwriter and someone who chronicles time, um, I have to feel the pulse of what is current. I was able to include General Joy on the record because I wrote it, um, in July 2004 and recorded it and it was relevant then and it is relevant again now. We are still at war, as of this taping and General Joy is very much a current figure. Or not because there are not a lot of Generals that we would call General Joy and that is the point. General Joy has lost his boys and they have been left behind, he needs a solder girl now that liberty has been gagged."
-- Tori; The Beekeeper Limited Edition Bonus DVD
