Post by Julie on Nov 4, 2006 0:14:44 GMT -5
Take Me With You
In and out on this same path that I followed for years
Can’t I look around and ask how could we still end up here?
I can’t just hold tight
Wait for them to cut us to ribbons
If the sharpest thing where you come is a blade of grass
Oh, take me with you
I don’t need shoes to follow
Bare feet running with you
Somewhere the rainbow ends my dear
These injuries
Don’t you think we need a new referee
I can’t let the ball drop
Boy I need some interference to shut them up
Oh, take me with you
I don’t need shoes to follow
Bare feet running with you
Somewhere the rainbow ends my dear
Oh, take me with you
Chase rabbits into their burrow
Bare feet running with you
Today even the rain can cut me up
Tears turn to steal and the wound never heals
In the darkness of November
Well the witch is in the tower
And the snake’s in the bower
And the hunt goes on forever
Now the stake is there to burn
My fathers robe is torn between cross and Mother
With the blood on your hands come on
What you doin’
I am fed up with this questioning
Oh, take me with you
I don’t need shoes to follow
Bare feet running with you
Somewhere the rainbow ends my dear
Oh take me with you
Chase rabbits into their burrow
Bare feet running with you today
Oh, take me with you
I don’t need shoes to follow
Bare feet running with you
Today even the rain
Even the rain
Even the rain
Can cut me up
Take me with you
Take me with you
Tori's description of it:
"When searching through tracks while compiling this box set, we found a song called "Take Me With You" in the tape library that was originally supposed to be recorded for Little Earthquakes. At the time I just couldn't finish it. When we found it there were no lyrics to speak of, just music. SO you'll have something partly recorded in 1990 but with a vocal recorded in 2006, when the song was completed and mixed and ready to make her way into the world.
I hadn't listened to "Take Me With You" since 1993 because I thought it was lost. I was then going to try and finish it for Under The Pink. Obviously, I didn't, but unknowingly it's really been with me this whole time. I was asked to compose the music for one Viktor & Rolf's fashion shows back in 2005. I began writing the piece based on the Biblical Song of Solomon, but there must have been a musical theme that led me i to the first two bars of the chorus of "Take Me With You." Since I played live during the fashion show and had never done anything like this before, it ended up mostly as improvisation. But listening back I realized in that spontaneous moment how much I was still influenced by this song I could never seem to complete.
There are somet hings that when they're not developed you might foget about, tey just leave you. It's a motif in your head and it comes and goes but never finds a home. I thought this motif had found its place in the Song of Solomon. I never thought we would go back and find the piece of tape that would contain "Take Me With You." But stumbling upon this song many years later I realized that her time had finally come."
From A Piano: The Collection book.
I think this song is about fleeing a dangerous scene...almost Thelma & Louise like. Having an adventure that is both liberating and exhausting. Realizing that at some point, it has to end.
In and out on this same path that I followed for years
Can’t I look around and ask how could we still end up here?
I can’t just hold tight
Wait for them to cut us to ribbons
If the sharpest thing where you come is a blade of grass
Oh, take me with you
I don’t need shoes to follow
Bare feet running with you
Somewhere the rainbow ends my dear
These injuries
Don’t you think we need a new referee
I can’t let the ball drop
Boy I need some interference to shut them up
Oh, take me with you
I don’t need shoes to follow
Bare feet running with you
Somewhere the rainbow ends my dear
Oh, take me with you
Chase rabbits into their burrow
Bare feet running with you
Today even the rain can cut me up
Tears turn to steal and the wound never heals
In the darkness of November
Well the witch is in the tower
And the snake’s in the bower
And the hunt goes on forever
Now the stake is there to burn
My fathers robe is torn between cross and Mother
With the blood on your hands come on
What you doin’
I am fed up with this questioning
Oh, take me with you
I don’t need shoes to follow
Bare feet running with you
Somewhere the rainbow ends my dear
Oh take me with you
Chase rabbits into their burrow
Bare feet running with you today
Oh, take me with you
I don’t need shoes to follow
Bare feet running with you
Today even the rain
Even the rain
Even the rain
Can cut me up
Take me with you
Take me with you
Tori's description of it:
"When searching through tracks while compiling this box set, we found a song called "Take Me With You" in the tape library that was originally supposed to be recorded for Little Earthquakes. At the time I just couldn't finish it. When we found it there were no lyrics to speak of, just music. SO you'll have something partly recorded in 1990 but with a vocal recorded in 2006, when the song was completed and mixed and ready to make her way into the world.
I hadn't listened to "Take Me With You" since 1993 because I thought it was lost. I was then going to try and finish it for Under The Pink. Obviously, I didn't, but unknowingly it's really been with me this whole time. I was asked to compose the music for one Viktor & Rolf's fashion shows back in 2005. I began writing the piece based on the Biblical Song of Solomon, but there must have been a musical theme that led me i to the first two bars of the chorus of "Take Me With You." Since I played live during the fashion show and had never done anything like this before, it ended up mostly as improvisation. But listening back I realized in that spontaneous moment how much I was still influenced by this song I could never seem to complete.
There are somet hings that when they're not developed you might foget about, tey just leave you. It's a motif in your head and it comes and goes but never finds a home. I thought this motif had found its place in the Song of Solomon. I never thought we would go back and find the piece of tape that would contain "Take Me With You." But stumbling upon this song many years later I realized that her time had finally come."
From A Piano: The Collection book.
I think this song is about fleeing a dangerous scene...almost Thelma & Louise like. Having an adventure that is both liberating and exhausting. Realizing that at some point, it has to end.
