Tori Amos: HEREINMYHEAD.COM

if you don’t treat me better
baby, i’ll just run away
baby, i don’t know what drives you
to play all these silly games
c’mon, baby
i’m much stronger than you know
sometimes
i’m not afraid to let it show

CHORUS
when will you wake up
i want you more than the stars and the sun
but i can take
only so much
cool on your island
is it cool on your island

i gotta brand new dress, babe
could it make you wanna try
i guess i didn’t want to notice
the stars gone from your eyes
c’mon, baby
i’m much stronger than you know
sometimes
i’m not afraid to let it show

REPEAT CHORUS

we could buy an airplane
build a home in the sand
you could tell your secrets
i could understand
but then by the morning
comes crumblin’ down
and as your leavin’
wait

CHORUS
when will you wake up
i want you more than the stars and the sun
but i can take
only so much
cool on your island
you’re so cool on your island
is it cool on your island
is it cool, baby

if you don’t treat me better
baby i’ll just run away
if you don’t
treat me
one day
you’ll wake up cold
then you’ll know
you’ll know
you’ll know
you love me

Quotes

Cool On Your Island was released as a single in August 1988.

I: It’s not that bad – Cool On Your Island and Floating City are actually very good.
T: “Fair enough. I think that when I dissed the whole thing, it’s not fair to the people that put in their time and there are moments that work in every work, usually. If it comes from someone who has a catalogue, there’s usually something in their early work that can’t completely be mutilated. And there are moments that I think were right for the time on Y Kant Tori Read. I think Cool On Your Island had moments that were right for 1987, which was when I recorded it.”
– Tori; Record Collector Magazine, Nov99

“Well Y Kant Tori Read was a pivotal point for me as a writer. Some of the things on it work, some of them don’t. Cool On Your Island works more than anything else, and I wrote that, I think, with Kim Bullard, but you’ll have to check the credits because I’ve been using too much deodorant lately.”
– Tori; The Performing Songwriter Magazine, Sept/Oct ’98

“It was a different time; I was in a different place. Everything was over the top — the high hair, everything. I was shopping at Retail Slut.” If you ever hear the album, though, skip to Cool on Your Island. She likes that one.
– Tori; Blender Magazine, Nov 2002