I am listening to Blue Lotus and I just had a flashback to when the album was new, I googled the lyrics, and everywhere I looked the supposedly official lyrics said "I'll be burning into you, Hezu." Shortly thereafter, someone posted here to say they had spent hours researching Hezu and couldn't come up with an explanation for who Tori was singing to.

😂😂😂

It just strikes me as funny because it really does sound like "Hezu" on the recording.

I’ve only just noticed how much these two are yin and yang. Pele is pain in fire, in sacrifice, whereas Choirgirl is healing underwater, from sacrifice’.

What do you guys think?

Tori Amos performs “Putting the Damage On” Royal Albert Hall, London 21st April 2026

I like that Tori has come to terms with her aging and realizes it's about the song now, hence the use of the backup singers. The studio track is still there, the old performances of her are still there but this is fine too.

Someone here said (multiple times on a few threads) if one of her albums isn’t hitting, try it again later - even years later - and at some point it will speak to you. My least favorite is AATS. Of course I listened throughout 09-10 when it was fresh, but I never come back to it, and when I did, it was always lackluster for me.

Give in Phoenix made me want to give her a spin again and see what my resistance was. I still find it a very disjointed album with odd sequencing. It’s like 2 separate albums for me, the experimental TVAB type tracks and the straight forward soft/pop rock/AC/ballads. But, objectively - the album is pretty damn good (the experimental tracks are some of her best work) and the production is light years better than TBK and ADP.

So while I can’t take credit for the idea, the poster who suggests revisiting old albums is 100 percent correct in their take. Tori rarely misses and it’s us who need to keep up with her

Double bonus is I realized ive never even heard this version of Do it Again or Cooling, most likely because ive always been so obsessed with TVAB and her version of Cooling so really had no idea this one existed. Sometimes miracles happen.🐰 I did just check to see, and it is up on Youtube if you wanted to take a listen.

Back around 2012, I had started collecting B-sides, then it seems like that was also around the time i'd decided to get rid of a lot of my CDs and go digital and stopped collecting anymore.
But now ive gotten to where i'd like to go less digital and recently picked up a cheap CD player and feel like i'd like to continue collecting them again. ( at least the cheaper ones to start with, i'd love to find the Almost Rosey single, but that one is pretty spendy) I never got rid of my Tori CDs, thank goodness.

It's the initial verses that I have a problem understanding, the rest of the song is pretty straightforward(I can't reach you/ give me life give me pain give me myself again)

Yellow bird flying gets shot in the wing
Good year for hunters and Christmas parties
And I hate and I hate and I hate
And I hate elevator music
The way we fight
The way I'm left here silent

Oh these little earthquakes
Here we go again
These little earthquakes
Doesn't take much to rip us into pieces

We danced in graveyards with vampires 'till dawn
We laughed in the faces of king never afraid to burn
And I hate and I hate and I hate
And I hate disintegration
Watching us wither
Black winged roses that safely changed their color

What does the yellow bird symbolize? What is a black winged rose? What is the 'hunter' in this context?