[Marianne]
Boys for Pele
liner

tuna
rubber
a little blubber in my igloo
and I knew you pigtails and all
girls when they fall
and they said Marianne killed herself
and I said not a chance
don't you love the girls ladies babes
old bags who say she was so pretty why
why why why did she crawl down in the old
deep ravine

c'mon pigtails girls and all those sailors
get your bags and hold down won't you just
hold down cause Ed is watching my every sound
I said
they're watching my every sound

the weasel squeaks faster than a seven day week
I said Timmy and that purple Monkey
are all down

at Bobby's house
making themselves pesters and lesters and jesters and my
traitors of kind
and I'm just having thoughts of Marianne
she could outrun the fastest slug
she could
Marianne
quickest girl in the frying pan


^Interpretation^
People Weekly; V45:1, p28,c1

Tori has an imaginary pal named Clunky, a purple monkey. She says, "I've been aware of him for years...I've had many a dinner with him. He's always sitting on my shoulder."

All lyrics are written by Tori Amos.
Published by Sword and Stone, ASCAP.

Drops of Ivory 1997-2005