Post by Julie on Jun 23, 2005 14:11:43 GMT -5
Merman
Go to bed
The priests are dead
Now no one
Can call you bad
Go to bed
The priests are dead
Finally
You're in Peppermint Land
The people who hate this man because of he's gay or gone and he is safe in his bed or in Heaven, whichever situation you look at.
He's a merman
He doesn't need your voice
He doesn't need any justification or any shame for being gay, he is fine with it and he knows he'll go to Heaven.
He's a merman
Go to bed
Dream instead
And you will
Find him
To all those boys or men that are shamed either by others or by theirselves for being gay can dream of their love and no one will hurt them.
He's a merman
To the knee
Doesn't need
Something you're not willing to give
He's a merman
Doesn't need your voice
To cross his lands of ice
No one can ruin his sanctuary where he finds his true love.
Go to bed
The priests are dead
Now no one
Can call you bad
Go to bed
The priests are dead
Finally
You found him
Once he's found the one he loves, no one can touch that. He's sure now.
Let it out
Who could ever say
You're not simply wonderful?
Who could ever harm you?
People that love him cannot understand how anyone could hate or hurt anyone because of their being gay, especially when they are such a wonderful person to begin with.
Sleep now
You're my little goat
An endearment.
Go to bed
Priests are dead
And come sing it
All again
Go to bed
Past the apple orchard
And you'll feel
Nice
Another paradise setting or Heaven for what's deserving to someone who has gotten what they didn't deserve.
Two can play
Two can play
Here's Tori's description of it:
"It's inspired by a man with integrity, such deep integrity that I married him. It's about having someone heal your whole life. I'm talking about the times when lines have been crossed by men. Men can be dangerous, like in the song Datura about how sometimes they can bring you gold and sometimes they can be the bearer of poison. The plant Datura is a hallucinogen and it's like men. If you get the right amount you'll walk into the garden and become a woman, but if too much seeps in in the wrong way and at the wrong time -- it'll kill you. So yeah, Merman is that. When I was touring last year and Matthew Shepard got murdered I was dedicating it to him. A lot of guys were asking me to sing it for him and it just kinda took a life on of its own."
-- Tori; Attitude Magazine (UK), November 1999
Go to bed
The priests are dead
Now no one
Can call you bad
Go to bed
The priests are dead
Finally
You're in Peppermint Land
The people who hate this man because of he's gay or gone and he is safe in his bed or in Heaven, whichever situation you look at.
He's a merman
He doesn't need your voice
He doesn't need any justification or any shame for being gay, he is fine with it and he knows he'll go to Heaven.
He's a merman
Go to bed
Dream instead
And you will
Find him
To all those boys or men that are shamed either by others or by theirselves for being gay can dream of their love and no one will hurt them.
He's a merman
To the knee
Doesn't need
Something you're not willing to give
He's a merman
Doesn't need your voice
To cross his lands of ice
No one can ruin his sanctuary where he finds his true love.
Go to bed
The priests are dead
Now no one
Can call you bad
Go to bed
The priests are dead
Finally
You found him
Once he's found the one he loves, no one can touch that. He's sure now.
Let it out
Who could ever say
You're not simply wonderful?
Who could ever harm you?
People that love him cannot understand how anyone could hate or hurt anyone because of their being gay, especially when they are such a wonderful person to begin with.
Sleep now
You're my little goat
An endearment.
Go to bed
Priests are dead
And come sing it
All again
Go to bed
Past the apple orchard
And you'll feel
Nice
Another paradise setting or Heaven for what's deserving to someone who has gotten what they didn't deserve.
Two can play
Two can play
Here's Tori's description of it:
"It's inspired by a man with integrity, such deep integrity that I married him. It's about having someone heal your whole life. I'm talking about the times when lines have been crossed by men. Men can be dangerous, like in the song Datura about how sometimes they can bring you gold and sometimes they can be the bearer of poison. The plant Datura is a hallucinogen and it's like men. If you get the right amount you'll walk into the garden and become a woman, but if too much seeps in in the wrong way and at the wrong time -- it'll kill you. So yeah, Merman is that. When I was touring last year and Matthew Shepard got murdered I was dedicating it to him. A lot of guys were asking me to sing it for him and it just kinda took a life on of its own."
-- Tori; Attitude Magazine (UK), November 1999
