Post by Julie on Jun 13, 2005 11:33:07 GMT -5
THE BEEKEEPER Flaxen hair
blowing in the breeze It is time
for the geese to head south
You get this very eerie, sad feeling when you know something is going to leave you for good.
I have
come with my mustard seed I cannot
accept that she will be taken from me
There's this thing in your body that is in complete denial of someone you love leaving you for your entire lifetime.
"Do you know who I am" she said "I'm the
one who taps you on the shoulder when it's
your time
The Grimwreeper. (sp?)
Don't be afraid I promise that she
will awake Tomorrow Somewhere Tomorrow
Somewhere"
No matter how pesimistic or optimistic you are, if there is this possibility of someone you love dying, you just bring on this optimism that protects you from excruciating pain so you feel as if this person is invincible and that God would never forever bring this kind of torture upon you.
- wrap yourself around the Tree of
Life and the dance of the Infinity of the Hive
In the case of death, you have to take what you can get. If you believe in Heaven, know that you will see this being again when you get to Heaven. If you don't believe in Heaven, you have to feel that this being is still with you throughout your life if you just take the time to talk to them in your mind.
- take
this message to Michael
Tori's brother who died.
I will comb myself into chains In
between the tap dance clan and your ballerina gang I have
come for the Beekeeper I know you want my You want
my Queen - Anything but this Can you use me instead?
When you love somebody this much, you will sacrifice yourself so they can still be because of their great importance in life. Even though this means you will not be there, you have to have them on Earth because you know that you're not the only one who needs this person around.
In your gown with your breathing mask Plugged into
a heart machine As if you ever needed one
Metaphorically, she's saying that her mother had a beautiful heart and still does and how could she ever need something to keep it working.
I must
see the Beekeeper I must see if she'll keep her
alive Call Engine 49 I have come with my
mustard seed Maybe I'm passing you by
Just passing you by girl I'm passing you by
On my way On my way I'm just passing
you by
Ya know the saying, "Someone just walked over your grave." It's like that, when you are by someone who will die soon, and of course you don't know it yet...you know that this grimwreeper (sp?) just passed you by. Chills
But don't be confused
One day I'll be coming for you...
Even though this grimwreeper (sp?) just passed you by that still does not dismiss the fact that he will get you one day.
I must see the Beekeeper
I must see the Beekeeper
Here's Tori's description of it:
"The Beekeeper is based on this woman who eats from the Tree of Knowledge" explains Amos. "She's all women - 'Woman.' Sophia, who was the Mother of God in the Old Testament, advises her that if she's eats from the Tree, she'll attain wisdom and open her life to new emotions and experiences, the songs captures her journey from passion to enlightenment."
-- Tori; Diva Magazine (UK), Mar 2005
"All these soldiers in Iraq are sons of mothers. These mothers get told that their sons have to sacrifice their life for our Christian beliefs, for peace, and only after making this sacrifice you live like a real Christian. Just like God sacrified his only son for the sins of humans. I think God and Jesus feel betrayed by these sort of quotes. Mary, Magdalene, and Mother Earth try to contact us women... 'We need you!' My character in the song The Beekeeper tries to contact 'Sofia', mother of God, and asks her how she can change the world. Sofia tells her that Eve asked her the same question in the past, and tells her to do the thing she is prohibited to do by her son, and that's to eat from the forbidden fruit. 'Only then will you see how I look at the world and humanity.' And so it goes that every song on the album is a forbidden fruit in each garden."
-- Tori; OOR Magazine (Dutch), Mar 2005
"My mom was very ill this year. I was having to realize that I was not willing to let her go at this time, so what do you do? Well then you go to the Beekeeper, don't you? So in the song, The Beekeeper, I travel to find the Master Beekeeper who is really sort of the Master Shaman keeping everything together within the gardens making sure that everything is pollinated, making sure that there is life, making sure that when and if there is disease that that is extricated from the garden. I wasn't guaranteed that my mother would survive, but the master Beekeeper explained that, of course she will wait. Don't you believe in infinity, don't you believe in the shape of infinity? That's the bees den. That is what the worker bees do. That is their dance. Don't you believe in the mystery of the Magdalene, don't you believe in this lineage of Demeter? The endless of cycles, of Mother and Daughter. Because where ever she awakes she is still your mother, even if it isn't on this plane, she will always be your mother."
-- Tori; The Beekeeper Limited Edition Bonus DVD
CiaraBlaze asks: I've listened to the song The Beekeeper and it struck a very particular chord with me. It's a very haunting song. What exactly brought it on? To be more exact, what is the "story" of the song?
TORI: At first the melody would come and walk with me through the mists in North Cornwall England. I would take this melody back to the Hammond Organ, the B3. I would sit and play with this for hours. Soon I began to have to deal with my mother's heart condition and she survived a cardiac arrest in September. Because of this I began thinking about the life cycle and that dying is part of the life cycle. Even though I realized this, logically, I couldn't accept the idea of losing my mother emotionally. The song started to become clearer as the days went by and I began to realize that the Beekeeper that had taken my character in the song, to death, to plead for my mother's life, the Queen Bee in the song, little did I know that although my mother would survive and that death did pass her by it would be the last time I saw my brother when I went back to stand by my mother's bedside. So life/death has it's own rhythm and it's own rhyme. The Beekeeper really acts as a Shaman, similar to the Medicine Man in the Native American tradition. We have the Beekeeper in the Celtic tradition.
-- Tori; MSN Online Chat, Feb 22, 2005
"...You find yourself following the food chain path: you know, change your food, change your path, you are what you eat, Eat Right for Your Blood Type, etc. etc. etc...we've all done it. But if you're like me, then you realize one day that after you've been doing this for a year, your actual blood type is A+, not O... Fucking great...
Tash said to me the other day, "Mum?"
I responded, "Yum."
"Mum?"
"Yum."
"Mum, sometimes I'm stupid."
"Tash, don't be so hard on yourself."
"Mum, sometimes you're stupid too."
"Hey Tash, what are you getting at?"
"Sometimes, Mum, when you're cross, I'm Bombaloo." (She uses a word meaning how it sounds, from the kids' book Sometimes I'm Bombaloo.)
"Yeah, go on..."
"Well, we act stupid, Mum."
"Maybe you're right, Tash. Maybe we do act stupid." "I-got-an-idea..."
"You do? What's your idea?"
"Mum, you can be five in our game."
"Yeah, okay, and?"
"And I'm going to be sixteen going on seventeen."
And I thought to myself, I guess I've been five all week... [Tori Amos: Piece by Piece]
blowing in the breeze It is time
for the geese to head south
You get this very eerie, sad feeling when you know something is going to leave you for good.
I have
come with my mustard seed I cannot
accept that she will be taken from me
There's this thing in your body that is in complete denial of someone you love leaving you for your entire lifetime.
"Do you know who I am" she said "I'm the
one who taps you on the shoulder when it's
your time
The Grimwreeper. (sp?)
Don't be afraid I promise that she
will awake Tomorrow Somewhere Tomorrow
Somewhere"
No matter how pesimistic or optimistic you are, if there is this possibility of someone you love dying, you just bring on this optimism that protects you from excruciating pain so you feel as if this person is invincible and that God would never forever bring this kind of torture upon you.
- wrap yourself around the Tree of
Life and the dance of the Infinity of the Hive
In the case of death, you have to take what you can get. If you believe in Heaven, know that you will see this being again when you get to Heaven. If you don't believe in Heaven, you have to feel that this being is still with you throughout your life if you just take the time to talk to them in your mind.
- take
this message to Michael
Tori's brother who died.
I will comb myself into chains In
between the tap dance clan and your ballerina gang I have
come for the Beekeeper I know you want my You want
my Queen - Anything but this Can you use me instead?
When you love somebody this much, you will sacrifice yourself so they can still be because of their great importance in life. Even though this means you will not be there, you have to have them on Earth because you know that you're not the only one who needs this person around.
In your gown with your breathing mask Plugged into
a heart machine As if you ever needed one
Metaphorically, she's saying that her mother had a beautiful heart and still does and how could she ever need something to keep it working.
I must
see the Beekeeper I must see if she'll keep her
alive Call Engine 49 I have come with my
mustard seed Maybe I'm passing you by
Just passing you by girl I'm passing you by
On my way On my way I'm just passing
you by
Ya know the saying, "Someone just walked over your grave." It's like that, when you are by someone who will die soon, and of course you don't know it yet...you know that this grimwreeper (sp?) just passed you by. Chills
But don't be confused
One day I'll be coming for you...
Even though this grimwreeper (sp?) just passed you by that still does not dismiss the fact that he will get you one day.
I must see the Beekeeper
I must see the Beekeeper
Here's Tori's description of it:
"The Beekeeper is based on this woman who eats from the Tree of Knowledge" explains Amos. "She's all women - 'Woman.' Sophia, who was the Mother of God in the Old Testament, advises her that if she's eats from the Tree, she'll attain wisdom and open her life to new emotions and experiences, the songs captures her journey from passion to enlightenment."
-- Tori; Diva Magazine (UK), Mar 2005
"All these soldiers in Iraq are sons of mothers. These mothers get told that their sons have to sacrifice their life for our Christian beliefs, for peace, and only after making this sacrifice you live like a real Christian. Just like God sacrified his only son for the sins of humans. I think God and Jesus feel betrayed by these sort of quotes. Mary, Magdalene, and Mother Earth try to contact us women... 'We need you!' My character in the song The Beekeeper tries to contact 'Sofia', mother of God, and asks her how she can change the world. Sofia tells her that Eve asked her the same question in the past, and tells her to do the thing she is prohibited to do by her son, and that's to eat from the forbidden fruit. 'Only then will you see how I look at the world and humanity.' And so it goes that every song on the album is a forbidden fruit in each garden."
-- Tori; OOR Magazine (Dutch), Mar 2005
"My mom was very ill this year. I was having to realize that I was not willing to let her go at this time, so what do you do? Well then you go to the Beekeeper, don't you? So in the song, The Beekeeper, I travel to find the Master Beekeeper who is really sort of the Master Shaman keeping everything together within the gardens making sure that everything is pollinated, making sure that there is life, making sure that when and if there is disease that that is extricated from the garden. I wasn't guaranteed that my mother would survive, but the master Beekeeper explained that, of course she will wait. Don't you believe in infinity, don't you believe in the shape of infinity? That's the bees den. That is what the worker bees do. That is their dance. Don't you believe in the mystery of the Magdalene, don't you believe in this lineage of Demeter? The endless of cycles, of Mother and Daughter. Because where ever she awakes she is still your mother, even if it isn't on this plane, she will always be your mother."
-- Tori; The Beekeeper Limited Edition Bonus DVD
CiaraBlaze asks: I've listened to the song The Beekeeper and it struck a very particular chord with me. It's a very haunting song. What exactly brought it on? To be more exact, what is the "story" of the song?
TORI: At first the melody would come and walk with me through the mists in North Cornwall England. I would take this melody back to the Hammond Organ, the B3. I would sit and play with this for hours. Soon I began to have to deal with my mother's heart condition and she survived a cardiac arrest in September. Because of this I began thinking about the life cycle and that dying is part of the life cycle. Even though I realized this, logically, I couldn't accept the idea of losing my mother emotionally. The song started to become clearer as the days went by and I began to realize that the Beekeeper that had taken my character in the song, to death, to plead for my mother's life, the Queen Bee in the song, little did I know that although my mother would survive and that death did pass her by it would be the last time I saw my brother when I went back to stand by my mother's bedside. So life/death has it's own rhythm and it's own rhyme. The Beekeeper really acts as a Shaman, similar to the Medicine Man in the Native American tradition. We have the Beekeeper in the Celtic tradition.
-- Tori; MSN Online Chat, Feb 22, 2005
"...You find yourself following the food chain path: you know, change your food, change your path, you are what you eat, Eat Right for Your Blood Type, etc. etc. etc...we've all done it. But if you're like me, then you realize one day that after you've been doing this for a year, your actual blood type is A+, not O... Fucking great...
Tash said to me the other day, "Mum?"
I responded, "Yum."
"Mum?"
"Yum."
"Mum, sometimes I'm stupid."
"Tash, don't be so hard on yourself."
"Mum, sometimes you're stupid too."
"Hey Tash, what are you getting at?"
"Sometimes, Mum, when you're cross, I'm Bombaloo." (She uses a word meaning how it sounds, from the kids' book Sometimes I'm Bombaloo.)
"Yeah, go on..."
"Well, we act stupid, Mum."
"Maybe you're right, Tash. Maybe we do act stupid." "I-got-an-idea..."
"You do? What's your idea?"
"Mum, you can be five in our game."
"Yeah, okay, and?"
"And I'm going to be sixteen going on seventeen."
And I thought to myself, I guess I've been five all week... [Tori Amos: Piece by Piece]
