Post by Julie on Jun 7, 2005 16:47:23 GMT -5
MOTHER REVOLUTION Lucky
me I guessed the kind of man
that you would turn out to be Now I
wish that I'd been wrong and then I
could remember to breathe And all along
the Watchtower the night horses and the
black mares ready themselves for the outcome
for the strange times upon us But what you
didn't count on was another Mother of a Mother
Revolution but what you didn't count on was another
Mother of a Mother Revolution you could've had me
you could've had me you could've had me Right there
beside you you could've had me boy you could've had
me yeah you could've had me Right there beside
you A wife on loan in a cafe in old El Paso
Next I go to Seven Gates and my sister's Bass
Bonanza And all along her Watchtower
the night horses and the black mares
steady themselves for the outcome
for the strange days upon us What
you didn't count on was another
Mother of a Mother Revolution
I think this song is about God in whatever sense of that you believe it is. If you do believe in God then I am assuming you consider he or she a protector, a concerned and caring being that watches over you and in "Mother Revolution" she is concerned with her Earth to which she gave birth to (so to speak) and so many horrible things are happening to her baby like war, poverty, starvation, abuse, and more. She is crying out for these creatures that are on her child trying to destroy her!
Here's Tori's description of it:
SONG CANVAS: "Mother Revolution"
There were two Jamaican nurses taking care of me. They were both deeply religious women. They believed in God and followed the Bible word for word. I would speak to them of the Great Mother; I would tell them that they reminded me of the depth of love that I felt from the Great Mother. When I would sit by the sea, so as to let the rushing of the winds and the salt clear the way-cleansing the thoughts that were pulling me down, i would reach for the hands of these two women. All three of us believed that there were forces that could pull you down. Pull you away from your center. They called it Satan. I didn't choose to disagree with that terminology. Satan means different things to different people, and a lot of people see it as an outside force working to recruit people into this army. Over the years I've chosen to see it somewhat differently. I believe that this force, called Satan, if you will, is a position from which you or I choose to act. This force takes no responsibility for the suffering it causes. Some people who need ot have power over other people can't see that they are operating withint he satanic framework. If you stop walking on eggshells and are honest about it-dominating another human being, needing to control another humam being, even if it's in that person's best interest, treating someone like a possesion, taking advantage of another human behing because you can-all of this is what 666 really is. The misuse of power. Not all of us are willing to admit where we're misusing power.
I would sit and speak for hours and hours with these Jamaican nurses, each of whom had had a child who had been killed, and they both chose to hold the space of the Great Mother. One of them lost her eighteen-year-old baby in a car accident and was sued by the so-called friends who survived, who were trying to eke out as much money as they could. Yes, of course the money was paid out by the insurance company, but not one survivor had anty concern or compassion for their friend, who was dead, for the mother who had lost her baby. No, they cared about what they would get otu of it, thought their lives had been spared. Now that is satanic. Until each of us has the courage to look at our priorities . . .
The Apocalypse is not something out there that will eradicate everything on planet Earth. That would be far too smiple. The Apocalypse is in each and every one of us. It atkes courage to fight the beast. The beast is allegorical and rears its chameleon head when power is misused by each and every one of us. Sometimes we misuse power by not standing up for ourselves, by being powerless. That's the inverted beast-when you can't say no but you should because you're being asked to do something that you know isn't right for you, but you do it because you were never taught how to say no. You were never taught that sometimes the consequences of saying no are that the person that you've said no to will say you're not being a good friend, then will threaten to leave you or will just walk out on the relationship. So as they start to walk, then you start ot buckle and you say, "No, don't go, don't go, I'm sorry-I just want to make it okay." That's another form of the Apocalypse. This is called spiritual slavery. You have just handed over an invisible leash that goes from your neck to their hands. now, until we all have the courage to look at where we aren't choosing freedom for the soul, then we are out of alignment with the Great Mother and the Divine Father-whatever you want to call them. Sometimes the Great Mother seems to inhabit little people as well . . .
I have been writing about Grandma for days now. Tash finds me on the curve of the half-moon-shaped old Georgian stairs, sits down next to me, and says, "You need to stop work and come play now, Mum." "Yeah, but Tash, i have a deadline." "It'll be okay, Mum. Come on and play." "Okay, Tash, which aniaml do you want me to be in the safari?" We play-Tash, Emily, Kelsey, and I-down our hill on this huge rock in our garden that the kids dubbed "the safari." And out of the blue Tash puts her hand in mine and says, "Do you know who we are Mum?" And at that moment I just look into her blue planets for eyes, and she says, "We are Daughters of Song, Mama." And at that I jump up with new life, pick her up, and say, "Now let's go play."
"Mother Revolution is core. Because the album centers very much around this idea that in order for there to be a continuance of life for the next generation, and the next generation, and the next generation the songs began to speak about if the masses didn't choose to listen to the needs of the next generation then the mothers would need to make a choice which was were the mothers ok about sending their sons off to a war that they may not believe in and I began to understand an internal revolution that is more powerful than thousands of solders, that there is an artillery of the soul and a resolve that I have seen in a concerned mother. The masters have spoken about the complexity of the hives that love living in the orchards I was drawn to it mainly because of the vine and the fruit and the transformation of life. Becoming a mother has brought me my greatest teacher. She is four and we're in communication, we're in harmony, we're in a balance of mother and daughter not me as the authority or her as the precocious child who is totally in control, which is true sometimes, but when we're in balance, we are sharing this dance this sonic dance that the songs have been trying to show me since I was little, but she through her, her music is beginning to show me. And that lives in The Orchard along with the Tree of Knowledge."
-- Tori; The Beekeeper Limited Edition Bonus DVD
"I’ve thought about this a lot since I had my daughter and what I find really disturbing about this global war, is you don’t see any of the world leaders sending their children to be butchered. It’s always someone else’s children, someone else’s blood. In Mother Revolution the woman realizes she cannot fight the patriarchy in the way that they fight and she can’t just turn her back either. In order to be effective she has to come up with a new solution. And sometimes the best solution isn’t to throw a bomb at a balloon, it's to pop the balloon with a kitty heel!"
-- Tori; Uncut.com, Mar 2005
me I guessed the kind of man
that you would turn out to be Now I
wish that I'd been wrong and then I
could remember to breathe And all along
the Watchtower the night horses and the
black mares ready themselves for the outcome
for the strange times upon us But what you
didn't count on was another Mother of a Mother
Revolution but what you didn't count on was another
Mother of a Mother Revolution you could've had me
you could've had me you could've had me Right there
beside you you could've had me boy you could've had
me yeah you could've had me Right there beside
you A wife on loan in a cafe in old El Paso
Next I go to Seven Gates and my sister's Bass
Bonanza And all along her Watchtower
the night horses and the black mares
steady themselves for the outcome
for the strange days upon us What
you didn't count on was another
Mother of a Mother Revolution
I think this song is about God in whatever sense of that you believe it is. If you do believe in God then I am assuming you consider he or she a protector, a concerned and caring being that watches over you and in "Mother Revolution" she is concerned with her Earth to which she gave birth to (so to speak) and so many horrible things are happening to her baby like war, poverty, starvation, abuse, and more. She is crying out for these creatures that are on her child trying to destroy her!
Here's Tori's description of it:
SONG CANVAS: "Mother Revolution"
There were two Jamaican nurses taking care of me. They were both deeply religious women. They believed in God and followed the Bible word for word. I would speak to them of the Great Mother; I would tell them that they reminded me of the depth of love that I felt from the Great Mother. When I would sit by the sea, so as to let the rushing of the winds and the salt clear the way-cleansing the thoughts that were pulling me down, i would reach for the hands of these two women. All three of us believed that there were forces that could pull you down. Pull you away from your center. They called it Satan. I didn't choose to disagree with that terminology. Satan means different things to different people, and a lot of people see it as an outside force working to recruit people into this army. Over the years I've chosen to see it somewhat differently. I believe that this force, called Satan, if you will, is a position from which you or I choose to act. This force takes no responsibility for the suffering it causes. Some people who need ot have power over other people can't see that they are operating withint he satanic framework. If you stop walking on eggshells and are honest about it-dominating another human being, needing to control another humam being, even if it's in that person's best interest, treating someone like a possesion, taking advantage of another human behing because you can-all of this is what 666 really is. The misuse of power. Not all of us are willing to admit where we're misusing power.
I would sit and speak for hours and hours with these Jamaican nurses, each of whom had had a child who had been killed, and they both chose to hold the space of the Great Mother. One of them lost her eighteen-year-old baby in a car accident and was sued by the so-called friends who survived, who were trying to eke out as much money as they could. Yes, of course the money was paid out by the insurance company, but not one survivor had anty concern or compassion for their friend, who was dead, for the mother who had lost her baby. No, they cared about what they would get otu of it, thought their lives had been spared. Now that is satanic. Until each of us has the courage to look at our priorities . . .
The Apocalypse is not something out there that will eradicate everything on planet Earth. That would be far too smiple. The Apocalypse is in each and every one of us. It atkes courage to fight the beast. The beast is allegorical and rears its chameleon head when power is misused by each and every one of us. Sometimes we misuse power by not standing up for ourselves, by being powerless. That's the inverted beast-when you can't say no but you should because you're being asked to do something that you know isn't right for you, but you do it because you were never taught how to say no. You were never taught that sometimes the consequences of saying no are that the person that you've said no to will say you're not being a good friend, then will threaten to leave you or will just walk out on the relationship. So as they start to walk, then you start ot buckle and you say, "No, don't go, don't go, I'm sorry-I just want to make it okay." That's another form of the Apocalypse. This is called spiritual slavery. You have just handed over an invisible leash that goes from your neck to their hands. now, until we all have the courage to look at where we aren't choosing freedom for the soul, then we are out of alignment with the Great Mother and the Divine Father-whatever you want to call them. Sometimes the Great Mother seems to inhabit little people as well . . .
I have been writing about Grandma for days now. Tash finds me on the curve of the half-moon-shaped old Georgian stairs, sits down next to me, and says, "You need to stop work and come play now, Mum." "Yeah, but Tash, i have a deadline." "It'll be okay, Mum. Come on and play." "Okay, Tash, which aniaml do you want me to be in the safari?" We play-Tash, Emily, Kelsey, and I-down our hill on this huge rock in our garden that the kids dubbed "the safari." And out of the blue Tash puts her hand in mine and says, "Do you know who we are Mum?" And at that moment I just look into her blue planets for eyes, and she says, "We are Daughters of Song, Mama." And at that I jump up with new life, pick her up, and say, "Now let's go play."
"Mother Revolution is core. Because the album centers very much around this idea that in order for there to be a continuance of life for the next generation, and the next generation, and the next generation the songs began to speak about if the masses didn't choose to listen to the needs of the next generation then the mothers would need to make a choice which was were the mothers ok about sending their sons off to a war that they may not believe in and I began to understand an internal revolution that is more powerful than thousands of solders, that there is an artillery of the soul and a resolve that I have seen in a concerned mother. The masters have spoken about the complexity of the hives that love living in the orchards I was drawn to it mainly because of the vine and the fruit and the transformation of life. Becoming a mother has brought me my greatest teacher. She is four and we're in communication, we're in harmony, we're in a balance of mother and daughter not me as the authority or her as the precocious child who is totally in control, which is true sometimes, but when we're in balance, we are sharing this dance this sonic dance that the songs have been trying to show me since I was little, but she through her, her music is beginning to show me. And that lives in The Orchard along with the Tree of Knowledge."
-- Tori; The Beekeeper Limited Edition Bonus DVD
"I’ve thought about this a lot since I had my daughter and what I find really disturbing about this global war, is you don’t see any of the world leaders sending their children to be butchered. It’s always someone else’s children, someone else’s blood. In Mother Revolution the woman realizes she cannot fight the patriarchy in the way that they fight and she can’t just turn her back either. In order to be effective she has to come up with a new solution. And sometimes the best solution isn’t to throw a bomb at a balloon, it's to pop the balloon with a kitty heel!"
-- Tori; Uncut.com, Mar 2005
