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LYRICS

every finger in the room
is pointing at me
i wanna spit in their faces
then i get afraid what that could bring
i got a bowling ball in my stomach
i got a desert in my mouth
figures that my COURAGE
would choose to sell out now

i've been looking for a savior
in these dirty streets
looking for a savior
beneath these dirty sheets
i've been raising up my hands
drive another nail in
just what GOD needs
one more victim

why do we crucify ourselves
every day i crucify myself
nothing i do is good enough for you
crucify myself
every day
i crucify myself
and my HEART is sick of being
in chains

got a kick for a dog
beggin' for LOVE
i gotta have my suffering
so that i can have my cross
i know a cat named easter
he says will you ever learn
you're just an empty cage girl
if you kill the bird

i've been looking for a savior
in these dirty streets
looking for a savior
beneath these dirty sheets
i've been raising up my hands
drive another nail in
got enough GUILT to start
my own religion

why do we crucify ourselves
every day i crucify myself
nothing i do is good enough for you
crucify myself
every day i crucify myself
and my HEART is sick of being in chains

please be
save me
i CRY

looking for a savior
in these dirty streets
looking for a savior
beneath these dirty sheets
i've been raising up my hands
drive another nail in
where are those angels
when you need them

why do we crucify ourselves
every day i crucify myself
nothing i do is good enough for you
crucify myself
every day i crucify myself
and my HEART is sick of being
in chains

why do we
crucify ourselves
everyday

never going back again
crucify myself
again you know
never going back again to
crucify myself
everyday

© Sword & Stone


IMPROVS

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MUSICIANS

written by Tori Amos
acoustic piano & vocals by Tori Amos
bass by Jeff Scott
drums by Ed Green
percussion by Paulinho DaCosta
mandolin by John Shanks (Beene)

REMIXES

Crucify Remix
 
FEATURED ON

Little Earthquakes
US Crucify EP
UK Crucify (Part 1) single
UK Crucify (Part 2) single

VIDEO

CRUCIFY
../CRUCIFY

COMMENTS

The UK Crucify (Part 1) single includes more non-LP tracks, the remixed version of Crucify (shortened from 4:58 to 4:15 and with guitar added). The Crucify (LP version) as stated on the track list, is actually a slightly different mix from the actual LP version. It is about three seconds shorter, is more up-tempo and includes additional and different background vocals. The UK Crucify (Part 2) single also included a live version of Crucify, recorded April 5th, 1992 in Cambridge, England.

"Bells started going off every time I wouldn't stick up for myself. I accepted Quasimodo was a squatter in my cerebral area. A rhythmic pattern kept chasing me around. I dug out the drum machine and put the pattern down. I would leave that pattern on for hours while I just sat and argued with myself about stuff. The first music to get put to the pattern was the 'B' section, 'I've been looking for a saviour'....a door opened and the demons started to show up."
-- Tori; Little Earthquakes Songbook

"I would get taken advantage of. You know, do things for somebody, and ... they walk over you, or ... want to make you feel like nothing. ["Crucify" video clip] I do think that there're times when we can all be pretty abusive, and we can be those victims, and we change roles with ourselves."
-- Tori; The Tori Papers #1: First Look Video Interview, Fall 1995

Got enough guilt to start my own religion: "I have that guilt still. I'm still working through this idea of giving myself completely to this man I'm with because he is my best friend and someone I respect. Yet he is also someone I need to slam me against a wall and fuck me. And love me as well. The concept of both being part of the one relationship is still hard for me to accept. Because I've been taught that being fucked against a wall, or anywhere, is not love. Who the fuck thought up *that* idea? That notion has kept marriages from working, people from giving to each other and both sexes under control for centuries."
-- Tori; Hot Press, 1994