We still need submissions! I’m probably giving this tumblr another week or so and I’m giving it up if it doesn’t start getting stories soon. :(
These stories don’t have to be about what you specifically think the songs about, but more about what they MEAN TO YOU personally. <3
Asked By: Anonymous
Yes, but I would have to be informed that it was meant to be anonymous. None that I have received have asked to be anonymous.
continuing the Black Dove discussion…
I can definitely buy that it came from a dream—a nightmare, even. but keep in mind that not all nightmares are scary. some can be sad, too. I also think, though, that Spark came to her at least in part from the same dream(s) that inspired Black Dove.
Horses are your dreams. They faded and disappeared in Winter yet awoke again during Pele. These dreams take us away from the Beauty Queen. We look at the horses, the ones we hid from ourselves or forget and then we see the truth.
Tori almost always mentions friends from her past and present, like “Marianne” and “Beenie”…A song that has always made me wonder is “Twinkle” where an unnamed friend says “I killed a man, T. I gotta stay hidden in this abbey”. The nature of the song is so sad and quiet, but so captivating. What is it about?
Can someone deciper “Space Dog?” It’s always kind of been my favorite Tori song.
Judging by what Tori herself said in regards to the song, I believe it is an homage to the trials of her childhood.
“When I sleep I often have nightmares. I can already hear your readers saying: ‘I knew that. The way your songs sound you must really have horrible nightmares.’ Just like the one I’m describing in the song Black-Dove on my last album From the Choirgirl Hotel. I see a black dove. I see its face clearly. The dove is transparent, like it is made of ice. I can see my hand through it. An auger goes through it and it is bleeding water. To get the same atmosphere musically I had to describe a scene of the movie Fargo to my musicians. A car is coming towards the camera from a long distance, very slowly. You know it will arrive in a moment. But you hope that this will never happen. My nightmares are so bad, that I mostly reject it when my friends want to take me to a cinema to watch a horror movie. Then I say: ‘No, thank you. I will dream in a few hours.’ Sometimes I feel like Hermann Hess’ Steppenwolf… The nightmares agonized me since my childhood. I am the daughter of a Methodist preacher and as a child I was sexually abused by a friend of the family. I think that the nightmares are telling me things about me I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean. Maybe so I can get to know something more about my soul.”
[Die Zeit (German newspaper), November 11, 1999]
I’d love to know what people think about the running theme of horses in Tori’s work. To the best of my knowledge, only Under The Pink, To Venus & Back and Midwinter Graces are the only albums that don’t have at least one mention of “horses” or “riding.” I don’t remember having hear Tori talk about this and any ideas would be welcomed..
