concertina.

"it could all get way too cheerful."
This song does something to me.
The bassline tangles itself into some of the prettiest lyrics I've ever heard, while a delicate piano riff is layered into the background like an old musicbox. It's almost haunting. I always envision grey skies and rain when I hear it. Definitely a place for this one on my Top 5 Tori Songs list.
Love this woman.

"Do you ever feel like you walk in a room, and you don't know why, but you're just so uncomfortable you're crawling out of your skin, even though nobody's touched you, physically? That's in 'Concertina,' when you feel like you haven't excavated enough of your different personalities that when one pops up, you're not sure where it came from, and you try to hack it out of yourself. It shocks you that you could have this kind of fault, or that other people could bring it out in you."
[Tori Amos; A.P. Magazine, Oct99]

clouds descending
i'm not policing
what you think and dream
i run into your thought from across the room
just another trick
can i weather this?
i've got a fever above my waist
you got a squeeze box on your knee
i know the truth is in between
the 1st and the 40th drink
concertina
concertina
a chill that bends
this i swear you're the fiercest calm I've been in
concertina
concertina
try infrared
this I swear
you're the fiercest calm I"ve been in
the soul quake
happened here in a glass world
particle by particle she slowly changes
she likes hanging chinese paper cuts
just another fix
can i weather this?
i got my fuzz all tipped to play
i got a dub on your landscape
then there's your policy of trancing
the sauce without the blame
too far
too far
too far
it could all get way too cheerful
i've got a fever above my waist
you got a squeeze box on your knee
i know the truth is in between
the 1st and the 40th drink
clouds descending