Tori Amos – Rattlesnakes

The best way I could describe it as is ‘gentle’ and ‘supportive.’ I find this song quite beautiful and so I share it with the (corrected) lyrics below.

 

Jodie wears a hat although it hasn’t rained for six days
she says a girl needs a gun these days
hey on account of those rattlesnakes
she looks like Eve Marie Saint in on the waterfront
she reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance

she’s less than sure if her heart has come to stay in San Jose
and her never-born child haunts her now
as she speeds down the freeway
as she tries her luck with the traffic police
out of boredom more than spite
she never finds no trouble, she tries too hard
she’s oblivious despite herself

she looks like Eve Marie Saint in on the waterfront
she says, all she needs is therapy
all you need is love, is all you need

Jodie never sleeps ’cause there are always needles in the hay
she says a girl needs a gun these days
hey on account of those rattlesnakes
she looks like Eve Marie Saint in on the waterfront
she reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance
her heart’s like crazy paving
upside down and back to front
she says oh, it’s so hard to love
when love was your great disappointment

kill all those rattlesnakes
she says a girl needs a gun these day hey oh uh oh
a girl needs a gun these days on account of those rattlesnakes

http://youtu.be/YzUkvQ1sG6s

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