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Excerpt of lyrics are from Ice Magazine, Sept 2002.
"Tori Amos wrote the searing I Can't See New York, included on her upcoming Scarlet's Walk, in which an airplane passenger's future - and perhaps her life - is obfuscated by clouds, dust, and death."
-- Washington CityPaper, 09/2002
From Boston, the story switches to New York, where Scarlet witnesses a plane crash in mid-air. Tori was in the city on September 11 and I CAN'T SEE NEW YORK is a story with obvious echoes of that fateful day. "When they watched
it on TV , people had to remind themselves that it wasn't a movie. Being
there and being able to smell it, you knew that it was reality."
-- Scarlet's Walk bio
"She thinks she's got it all figured out and then she, um, she goes to Boston airport. And that is when the thread leaves her and follows another woman on a different plane. And Scarlet takes a little plane. And she gets into New York and she gets into New York City where she sees this plane that this other woman is on that the thread, mm, followed and tied itself to. She sees this plane crash above New York City. And...the thread comes back to her while she's on the ground and in the panic and the chaos that happens she's able to see and hear what this woman went through before she died. So she takes that thread with her. And she doesn't leave New York, I think it's almost like uhh feeling a friend that's wounded. Not wanting to leave their side. At a certain point though, she goes. It's time for her to go."
-- Scarlet Stories CD
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