Tori Amos — Amber Waves
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well he lit you up
like amber waves in his movie show
he fixed you up real good
till i don't know you anymore
from ballet class to a lap dance
straight to video
and the pool side news
was that he would be
launching you
into every young man's
bedroom - you gave it up
on dvd and magazine -
you gave it up
a private rite of passage
you gave it up
to every boy's sweet dream
with their paper cuts
you said "he's got a
healing machine
it glows in the dark
glows in the dark:
you say "there's not a lot
of me
left anymore -
just leave it alone.
but if you're buy, and you have
the time, tell the northern
lights to keep shining - lately it seems like they're drowning"
he cold light you up
and summon every swan
or the lakeside
off to cabo san lucas
for some optical stimulus
then you started to guess
there was someone else
though his flint glass
seeing all of you
immersed in his sepia
into every young man's
bedroom - you gave it up
on dvd and magazine -
you gave it up
a private rite of passage
you gave it up
to every boy's sweet dream
with their paper cuts
so i went by -
cause i had the time,
and told the northern lights
to keep shining
they told me to tell you -
they're waving
like amber waves in his movie show
he fixed you up real good
till i don't know you anymore
from ballet class to a lap dance
straight to video
and the pool side news
was that he would be
launching you
into every young man's
bedroom - you gave it up
on dvd and magazine -
you gave it up
a private rite of passage
you gave it up
to every boy's sweet dream
with their paper cuts
you said "he's got a
healing machine
it glows in the dark
glows in the dark:
you say "there's not a lot
of me
left anymore -
just leave it alone.
but if you're buy, and you have
the time, tell the northern
lights to keep shining - lately it seems like they're drowning"
he cold light you up
and summon every swan
or the lakeside
off to cabo san lucas
for some optical stimulus
then you started to guess
there was someone else
though his flint glass
seeing all of you
immersed in his sepia
into every young man's
bedroom - you gave it up
on dvd and magazine -
you gave it up
a private rite of passage
you gave it up
to every boy's sweet dream
with their paper cuts
so i went by -
cause i had the time,
and told the northern lights
to keep shining
they told me to tell you -
they're waving
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Yes... the screeching of "You Know Me Better Than I Know Myself" is finally finished... back to some music.
This album has some real gems.
I mean her voice carries, but this song is so tame that I cannot fully like it.
To be followed by 'After the Goldrush', perhaps? That's where my 'spot the intro' took me!
I'm not a Tori fan but this one seems more accessible to me.
I'm not a Tori fan but this one seems more accessible to me.
jelgator wrote:
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Posted 6 months ago by jp33442: Finally a tori Amos song I like
Awesome, LLRP
Holy crap, this is horrid.
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Posted 6 months ago by jp33442: Finally a tori Amos song I like
Awesome, LLRP
Finally a tori Amos song I like
Holy crap, this is horrid.
This is pretty, I hadn't heard it before. Thanks
(at least) two big allusions in this song—the Stevie Smith poem Not Waving But Drowning and Julianne Moore's porn star character Amber Waves from the movie Boogie Nights.
Originally Posted by MissJenn:
Thanks for playing this - this is a wonderful concept album, too.
I agree.
For all those who are also fans or even the ones who are not and are curious to find out more about what the album or songs are about heres a link to a show that aired December 17th on KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic.
Just Tori and her piano performs a set of hand picked songs (something I'm sure some of us miss with Tori) and talks about some of the meaning of her songs and her album:
https://kcrw.com/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=mb&air_date=12/17/02&tmplt_type=show
Thanks for playing this - this is a wonderful concept album, too.
A bit too much Tori on here, lately.
I had my fill of Tori's music after the first album. She's gotten quite repetitive.
I can endure almost any song for a few minutes. It\'s worth it because of the rest of the RadioParadise playlist. But!!...Tori Amos! Ugh...she forces me to briefly turn the volume off.
Make it stop!!! 
Shoot. I missed it! 