Tori Amos - Hereinmyhead.com

icicle icicle where are you going
i have a hiding place when spring marches in
will you keep watch for me
i hear them calling
gonna lay down
gonna lay down

greeting the monster in our easter dresses
father says bow your head like the good book says
well i think the good book is missing some pages
gonna lay down
gonna lay down

and when my hand touches myself
i can finally rest my head
and when they say 'take of his body'
i think i'll take from mine instead

getting off getting off while they're all downstairs
singing prayers sing away he's in my pumpkin p.j.'s
lay your book on my chest
feel the word
feel the word
feel the word
feel it

i could have
i should have
i could have flown
you know i could have
i should have
i didn't so

© Sword & Stone

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"In Icicle I try to win back the innocence of my childhood. That girl that masturbates to survive, the vulnerable, innocent flower, has always done good things for us. She's had to fence off certain parts of herself to get ahead. Now it's time to light the candle and melt those parts. Who dares to open him- or herself can also forgive themselves for not having stood up for themselves enough."

"Sakura sakura yayoi no sora wa miwatasu kagiri. I dreamed things were frozen in ice songs and other dreams and the ice can carry secret messages that warm a little girl's heart."
-- Tori; Under The Pink Songbook

The UK Past The Mission (Part 1) single contains a live version of Icicle, recorded in Los Angeles, CA on March 22, 1994.