Tori Amos Lyrics Quiz for Experts | Music

Answer: iieee

From "From The Choirgirl Hotel" released in 1998 and one of my favorite lines in this song. This album was made after Tori miscarried. Tori comments on this album by saying, "There's a deep love on this record. This is not a victim's record. It deals with sadness but it's a passionate, record - for life, for the life force. And a respect for the miracle of life."

Answer: passing through

From the song "Putting the Damage On" from 1996's "Boys For Pele". Tori comments on the album by saying, "The whole record (Boys for Pele) is about my response to men, and that's my right."

Answer: The Waitress

From "Under The Pink" released in 1994. Tori comments on this song and food by saying, "Condiments are my favorite thing, sometimes when I was lonely I'd line up all the condiments and pound them on the table and let them applaud me, adding confidence to my dishes before they got cooked." That's our Tori.

Answer: Take to the Sky

A B-side of Tori's that was supposed to be the first song on 1992's "Little Earthquakes". Tori has said, "After 'Y Kant Tori Read' was deep in the toilet, I was living behind this church. I started to really get into the rhythms of it all, the Catholicism, but being Protestant I must have been Catholic-channeling" in regards to this song.

Answer: underworld

A line from the song "Lust" off of "To Venus And Back", released in 1999. About this song Tori has said, "I never realized before that I could never fully experience lust without trust."

Answer: Little Amsterdam

From "Boys For Pele", released in 1996. About this album Tori has said, "It was a journey in me finding my own fire- my own flame- not through another person or through things or through the piano even, but just trying to find it as a person. I had to find fragments that sort of made up more of the whole.

This record really took me to some of the hidden places in my heart as a woman. The programs that I have carried with me started to break down. The way I look at my life changed with this record."

Answer: orange

From the song "Silent All These Years" off of the album "Little Earthquakes", released in 1992. Tori has commented on this song by saying, "The bumble bee piano tinkle came first. This one evolved slowly but it stayed an obsession until it was finished. I entered boxer occupation- part of me not wanting to hear what 'I' was saying, the other part fighting off 'The Dirty Brain.' I finally distracted THE BRAIN DRAIN with the task of filing chocolate cake recipes."

Answer: sand

Beulah Land was a B-side to Choirgirl. It is on the Jackie's Strength single with Never Seen Blue. It's also one of my favorite Tori B-sides.

Answer: Little Earthquakes

From the album "Little Earthquakes", released in 1992. Tori had this to say about this song, "My eye twitches sometimes. I was surrounded by the thoughts I smashed they decided I would be a good dinner- I decided I wanted three bridges in this song."

Answer: Juarez

"Juarez" was released on 1999's "To Venus and Back". Tori had this to say about "Juarez": "I read an article about several hundred women in Juárez, New Mexico, who had been taken out to the desert and brutally raped and murdered. When they didn't come home, their brothers would go and look for them, and many times they'd find nothing. Sometimes they'd find a hair barrette or a sock or something they knew was their sister's. the authorities haven't really done anything about it... they get into this serial-killer theory. I mean, how much serial can one man indulge in? So as the song started to develop, I really began taking the voice of the desert, singing in that perspective."

Answer: Summertime

Another great Tori B-side.

Answer: Rattlesnakes

Rattlesnakes(Clark/Cole)
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - from "Rattlesnakes" (1984)

Answer: Sugar

A song from the "To Venus and Back" live CD.

Answer: Camelot

One of my favorite lines from the song "Jackie's Strength", released on 1998's "From The Choirgirl Hotel". This song was written about Jackie Kennedy Onassis.

Answer: acid rain

The song "Mary" is a rare B-side that is not on any of her major albums. It's one of my favorite Tori B-sides.

Answer: Violets

A line from the song "Cloud On My Tongue", released on 1994's "Under The Pink". Tori comments on this song by saying, "I crawled up in a flower when this one was being written. It was safe there and I wasn't ready to let this one in too deep- it was all ready to close."

Answer: crystal palace

From the song "Winter", released on 1992's "Little Earthquakes". This is by far my favorite line in this song. Tori coments on "Winter" by saying, "Without question my favorite time of the year. Strange for a girl who is always cold. There is something that draws me though, whether it's to catch me watching Torville and Dean walking down a road so bundled up I look like the Yeti or taste testing Day's mulled wine, I've found myself out, I'm a winter girl."

Answer: Muhammad My Friend

The name "Pele" in the album title, in case you were wondering after all, is the Hawaiian volcano goddess.

Answer: raincoat

A line from "The Wrong Band" from 1994's "Under the Pink". Tori has said, "Orchards are simple- a peach tree says 'some of me will be juicy and some of me will be dry. I'm not growing for you- I grow because that's what I do.'-you always hear some person complain about how dry their peach is and the peach says 'it's not our fault you have no understanding on the proper use for dry peaches" about this song.

Answer: assassin

A lyric from "Spark", the first song on 1998's "From The Choirgirl Hotel".

Interviewer:One last question. Who is the ice cream assassin?
Tori:"Who do you think that is?"
Interviewer:I have no idea
Tori:"Well, people have been praying to him for a very long time and more wars have been fought in his name. The big guy. Think about it."