Tori Amos - Hereinmyhead.com

god i love to turn my little blue world upside down
god i love to turn my little blue world upside down
inside my head the noise
chatter, chatter, CHATTER, chatter, chatter
you see i'm afraid i'll always be
still coming out of my mother upside down

don't you love to turn this little blue girl upside down
oh i know you love to turn this little blue girl baby upside down
but my heart it says
you've been shatter, shatter, shatter, SHATTER, shattered
and i know you're still a boy
still coming out of your mother

but when you gonna stand on your own
i say the world is sick
you say tell me what that makes us darlin'
you see you always find my faults
faster than you find your own
you say the world is getting rid of her DEMONS
i say baby, what have you been smokin'

well i dreamed, i dreamed
i dreamed i loved a black boy
my daddy would scream
oh yeah

don't you love to turn this little blue girl upside down
any kind of touch i think is better than none even upside down
but you see i'm tangled up
got a kitten, kitten, kitten, KITTEN in my hair
cincinnati, i like the word
it's the only thing we can't seem to turn upside down

well i found the secret to life
i found the secret to life
i'm okay when everything is not okay
i said i found the secret to life
i found the secret to life
i'm okay when everything is not okay
is not okay

oh, we turn and we turn our little blue world upside down
i said, don't we love to turn our little blue world baby upside down
inside my head a voice
chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter
and it says girl you're all the same
still coming out of your mothers
still coming out of your mothers upside down

© Sword & Stone

n/a

The studio version of Upside Down appears on the UK Silent All These Years (Part 1) single, US Silent All These Years cassingle, and the US Winter Limited Edition single; while two different live versions of the song are on the UK Past The Mission (Part 1) single and the US Bliss single.

"It's a b-side time. This one didn't get on the record. It's really funny. I think you'll appreciate this. in my little place that i was living in when i was putting this record together, i made these envelopes like a faerie ring. and um, people would come in and out and they'd get shot if they walked in there. they had to get away from that. because i was deciding. i had 15 songs and only x amount could go on. so they were deciding who wanted to come and who wanted to go somewhere else. this was the hardest one not to get on the record. because um, the reason it didn't was because the very last song was written, Me And A Gun, the very final one to get on. This one just said, "you know, i'll go somewhere else and i'll hangout and i'll come and play whenever you want me to." it's the sweetest vibe, this song. so i play it as much as i can just because um you know, it's one of my favorite people, this song. it's on a few b-sides..though the import section." (laughter)
-- Tori intro to song; Eugene, OR 8/30/94, Rhapsody in Pink

"Sticks, rocks, food, all sundry items came into the faery donut, including my feet over my head and a little blue girl."
-- Tori; Little Earthquakes songbook

I: Which of your songs is your personal favourite?
T: Upside Down, which was a B-side, I think.
-- Tori; W96.3 University Radio, Feb 25, 1994

"The only regret I ever have is that Upside Down wasn�t on Little Earthquakes."
-- Tori; Beat magazine, Jul 1994

�In England, every time you release a single you have an opportunity to put down songs you�ve never recorded. In the beginning, it was like, �Oh, wow, great.� Now it�s like I have to do it because I�ve been known for that. If I don�t put on a b-side people write me really nasty letters. Really. My hardcore fans, their favorite stuff is my b-sides. The big faves are Here. In My Head and Upside Down.�
-- Tori; Free Music Monthly, Aug 1994