Post by Julie on Jun 14, 2005 11:58:08 GMT -5
MARTHA'S FOOLISH GINGER
Take a walk down memory lane
with me Past a watermelon stand
on the way Thinking I had everything
we'd need on Martha's Foolish Ginger
You were late How could I forget what you
said-the part about that Love taking over
your life was not your plan If those harbour
lights had just been a 1/2 a mile inland who knows
what I would have done If those harbour lights
had just been a 1/2 a mile inland who knows what we
would have done Through the clifffs out of the Bay I went
From the starboard side I could block my visions and
my passions- They keep me awake A familiar voice
"Hi." Surprise. I've been searching trying to find
you" I couldn't speak my hands reached for
Martha's Foolish Ginger We talked until
the moon came up About how life without
love isn't worth very much Then I
played this song "Memories that we
have yet" you said "To make like
our Burning Bed..." Love, don't
mistake that it wasn't safe on
Martha's Foolish Ginger.
I think this song is definitely about memories and how we dwell on them so nostalgically sometimes. In this case, I think she was looking at a place where she spent lots of memories and then someone from this memory came up to her. Because of this amazing meeting with these circumstances, she was speechless as I would be. She just made another memory but she couldn't speak and now she is thinking about what she would have done if she could.
Here's Tori's description of it:
"I've got one song I've just finished which only had a title - Martha's Foolish Ginger - and a chorus: If those harbour lights had just been half a mile inland who knows what I would have done. I've actually been working on this song for eight years but couldn't figure out how to finish it. Then I suddenly realized the title was the name of her boat. And with that it was liberated, unlocked and everything came clear."
-- Tori; Word Magazine (UK), Feb 2005
"I started writing this one years ago, when I was close to the water, on tour somewhere. I had only a seed idea of it, but it has stayed with me for a while now. On the Lottapianos Tour during the summer of 2003, when we were in San Francisco, I was by the bay again. The song began to come back to me. Once again I began to understand the female character I needed to embody, I was able to finish the piece, but a real turning point was when I was able to see the character's boat, which she called Martha's Foolish Ginger: sailing out of the bay and into the Pacific Ocean." [Tori Amos: Piece by Piece]
Take a walk down memory lane
with me Past a watermelon stand
on the way Thinking I had everything
we'd need on Martha's Foolish Ginger
You were late How could I forget what you
said-the part about that Love taking over
your life was not your plan If those harbour
lights had just been a 1/2 a mile inland who knows
what I would have done If those harbour lights
had just been a 1/2 a mile inland who knows what we
would have done Through the clifffs out of the Bay I went
From the starboard side I could block my visions and
my passions- They keep me awake A familiar voice
"Hi." Surprise. I've been searching trying to find
you" I couldn't speak my hands reached for
Martha's Foolish Ginger We talked until
the moon came up About how life without
love isn't worth very much Then I
played this song "Memories that we
have yet" you said "To make like
our Burning Bed..." Love, don't
mistake that it wasn't safe on
Martha's Foolish Ginger.
I think this song is definitely about memories and how we dwell on them so nostalgically sometimes. In this case, I think she was looking at a place where she spent lots of memories and then someone from this memory came up to her. Because of this amazing meeting with these circumstances, she was speechless as I would be. She just made another memory but she couldn't speak and now she is thinking about what she would have done if she could.
Here's Tori's description of it:
"I've got one song I've just finished which only had a title - Martha's Foolish Ginger - and a chorus: If those harbour lights had just been half a mile inland who knows what I would have done. I've actually been working on this song for eight years but couldn't figure out how to finish it. Then I suddenly realized the title was the name of her boat. And with that it was liberated, unlocked and everything came clear."
-- Tori; Word Magazine (UK), Feb 2005
"I started writing this one years ago, when I was close to the water, on tour somewhere. I had only a seed idea of it, but it has stayed with me for a while now. On the Lottapianos Tour during the summer of 2003, when we were in San Francisco, I was by the bay again. The song began to come back to me. Once again I began to understand the female character I needed to embody, I was able to finish the piece, but a real turning point was when I was able to see the character's boat, which she called Martha's Foolish Ginger: sailing out of the bay and into the Pacific Ocean." [Tori Amos: Piece by Piece]
