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Tori Amos
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Tori On 'Oysters'
'Oysters' was in development for quite some time Mainly, I guess, because I had to travel, really travel with that one And it originated itself first in Ireland again a few years ago, perhaps around right before 'The Night of Hunters' time but it was somewhat different then So, it's really taken on a different character And I'd say to you a different accompaniment language, which then pushed the melody into different places Some things were retained from the original idea but it needed to grow and I think it's because at the time, I hadn't captured the sadness, the melancholy, that I needed to capture I was hearing different stories from different women about the idea of not having accomplished certain things and that they were stuck so they needed to go out and have some kind of communion with nature Different women explained it to me in different ways But I began to hear this one gal who just said, and she'd had quite a life, quite a life, many experiences I mean been in Hollywood, working there behind-the-scenes Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com I mean she's been around the world and she's British gal but I ran into her in Ireland and she was going to set up a little tackle shop somewhere at the ends of the earth, at the ends of the earth in the third world And I started thinking about turning oysters in the sand an old Native American idea, the idea of chop wood carry water, the idea of doing something with the land as part of the land whereby you become out of your problem so you, some women (and) men will talk about gardening, I've run into them where they just had to get their hands in the dirt, really get their hands in the dirt and to plant in order to stop thinking and reliving something over and over and over again 'cause they can't push through it so in their own life they go back to the same patternthe same negative pattern And I started thinking about the idea of turning oysters in the sand and musically then it started to make a sound what that would sound like Therefore, the piano melody that you begin to hear was the sonic oysters turning and then once I heard the oysters turning, then it all began to come together
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