From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V4 #373 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Sender: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Monday, December 20 1999 Volume 04 : Number 373 Today's Subjects: ----------------- improv mystery ["Daisy Dead Petals" ] Re: precious-things-digest V4 #372 ["Jodi" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 10:00:01 -0600 From: "Daisy Dead Petals" Subject: improv mystery OK, I was excited to have Cruel and Cornflake Girl on the Venus album because I thought that maybe now I could figure out what the hell she is saying in the improv parts at the end. BUT I CANT! HELP! please! Daisy Melanie daislen@wctc.net "I know the truth LIES in between the first and fortieth drink..." " ...and my only way out is to go so far in..." --Tori Amos ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 13:53:01 -0500 From: "Jodi" Subject: Re: precious-things-digest V4 #372 umm i always took it in a more literal sense, eternal FOOTman, some guy that always walks on foot places, buys a bike, its like a contradiction....like you can't even count on the eternal foot guy to eternally use his feet....i dunno but i heard this songs first when i was 9 so my interps may not be as complex as some of yours...i just thought there wasn't that much to it. oh well! this is my absolute favorite tori song, so keep interpreting it i love hearing this stuff - -All my heart- Jodi http://talk.to/jodequa > >Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 22:52:13 EST >From: KAPS72@aol.com >Subject: Re: eternal footmen > >PGY is absolutely one of my favorite songs. I read somewhere, I think on >the Tori Amos Lyrics Database, that the song was taken from an English >phrase. People who are having trouble generally would say that despite their >problems they'd say, still Pretty Good Year, or something to that effect, >meaning just because there's one minor problem, that doesn't mean their whole >life is sour. So, to get to the death thing, the eternal footman, who, in >Tori's song bought himself a bike to race, maybe she's saying that he has >nothing to do: no one's died lately. Pretty Good Year. He's taking up a >hobby. ??? > >Just a thought. :>) > >- - Kim > >"...an angel's face is tricky >to wear constantly..." > >------------------------------ ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V4 #373 *************************************