Fearlessness
Fearlessness blew in with the wind waking up to greet the sun
We sailed on like the ancient ones into the Nine Underworlds
We knew Dangers would come
I had faith in both of us
Listen to your heart you can hear me
Listen to your heart you can hear me
Day turned Night when he questioned,
“Why can’t you balance the skies?”
Soulless storms have sent Watchers
with blade-less weapons to fight
Teams of Horses of the Brine
followed his cry
through the fire
Demons of the Wild hissed with the wind
did you listen?
Listen to your heart can you hear me?
Listen to your heart can you hear me?
Fearlessness soon reminded me,
“You must be stronger than they”
cautioning, “There are those who live
to be cruel for the fun of it.”
He let in a dark companion that
orbited between us
His siren friends convinced him that Love
was no match against storms to come
Their songs enflamed by Doubt
Fearlessness drown them out
Teams of Horses of the Brine
followed his cry
through the fire
Demons of the Wild hissed with the wind
did you listen?
Listen to your heart can you hear me?
Listen to your heart can you hear me?
Did we begin
without knowing it
to find fault in every gift
Then that was when
the Blame began
What were once 2 forces joined
in Fearlessness
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Bösendorfer and Vocals: Tori Amos
Flute: Laura Lucas
Oboe/English Horn: Nigel Shore
Clarinet: Andreas Ottensamer
Bassoon: Peter Whelan
Contra Bassoon: Luke Whitehead
Apollon Musagète Quartet
Variation on Orientale (from 12 Spanish Dances)
Enrique Granados
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In Fearlessness, tori collects another memory of her recent past with “him”. Doubt and Blame seem to have come between the couple. Here their life on the sea comes to life. On their recent Atlantic Crossing on his sailboat from the new world to the old world Outside Forces begin to pull them apart so that by the end of the song we hear: “Then that was when the Blame began, what were once two forces joined in Fearlessness.”
– Night of Hunters: An Introduction track by track by Tori Amos, Amazon.com
From http://www.straight.com/article-557686/vancouver/channelling-classics By Alexander Varty, December 8, 2011
“She cites the song “Fearlessness”, which follows the narrator’s journey, in a past life, from North America to ancient Europe. The story line developed as she was recomposing Granados’s “Orientale”, from 12 Spanish Dances.
“The piece itself was pushing me to the New World,” she says. “But what I didn’t know was that Granados was afraid to go on a boat. But he went to America—his opera was opening, I think, in New York—and the president of the United States asked him to come down to Washington and play, so he and his wife missed the boat back. And the boat that they did take was hit by a torpedo on the last leg of the journey. He was rescued, but he saw his wife drowning in the distance, and in fearlessness—he couldn’t swim—he jumped off the boat to save her, and they both died. So sometimes pieces were guiding me, pushing me, with a subtext of the composers in them as well.”
This song is so powerful, had the privilege to see it live.
Edit: (contributed lyrics from digital album booklet purchased through Amazon)