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So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name

Tori Amos

I’ve been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.
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Dirty Esteem Low Self Sheets
Anything a wife should do, I’m terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I’ll try.
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Mistress Trying Wife
If you’re a lame brain, then you’re a lame brain. I can’t help that.
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Brain Helping Lame
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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People Privilege Stories
Over the last few hours I’ve allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won’t be afraid of that feeling anymore.
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Feelings Last Way
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
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Daughter Nursing Whale
Some people say, I’d give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn’t. I didn’t enjoy being 30.
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Enjoy Giving People
Pretty is never beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Pretty
An interview will seem very sane to me, and I’ll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
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Half Laughing Mouths
Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say ‘Yes, I’m sitting next to the butcher now,’ instead of saying ‘there is no butcher’.
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Able Healing Sitting
People are the most fascinating mysteries I’ve ever read.
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Fascinating Mystery People
The word ‘confession,’ to me, means needing to be absolved. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m not asking people to understand. I’d like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
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Mean People Thinking
For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don’t. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the backstory.
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Emotional Song Together
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
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Church Daughter People Play Separation
I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.
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Art Books Hearing Things
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
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Bleeding Knees Trying

So close to touching freedom, then I hear the guards call my name

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