[Indian Butt Magic]

TORI AMOS
BOYS FOR PELE
(ATLANTIC)
Released: January 1996
Chart: UK No.2 / US No.2

• Beauty Queen / Horses
• Blood Roses
• Father Lucifer
• Professional Widow
• Mr. Zebra
• Marianne
• Caught a Lite Sneeze
• Muhammad My Friend
• Hey Jupiter
• Way Down
• Little Amsterdam
• Talula
• Not the Red Baron
• Agent Orange
• Doughnut Song
• In the Springtime of His Voodoo
• Putting the Damage On
• Twinkle

Non-album tracks:

• Alamo
• Amazing Grace / Til the Chicken
• Beulah Land (released 1998)
• Cooling (released 1998)
• Fire Eater's Wife (released 2006)
• Frog On My Toe
• Graveyard
• Hungarian Wedding Song
• London Girls
• Never Seen Blue (released 1998)
• Samurai
• Sister Named Desire
• That's What I Like, Mick (The Sandwich Song)
• This Old Man
• Toodles Mr. Jim
• Walk to Dublin (Sucker Reprise) (released 2006)

I wrote this record because I was trying to fill the void any way I could. After nothing worked - men, food, incredible Chardonnay, shoes - there was no anchor to hold on to, the old ways didn't work any more. I realized I'd suppressed a lot of sides to myself to be loved and understood by men. I didn't want to play seductive little girl or ballbuster any more. With this record I played all those roles until I got to my heart. To find your fire as man or woman you have to take your torch and go to the shadows. Pele is a volcano goddess in Hawaii, and I fled to Hawaii in the middle of the Under the Pink tour for five days when I was at my lowest, and I couldn't feel any fire within myself. I couldn't feel anything. I came to the north shore in Hawaii, and a friend of mine - we'll call her a medicine woman, a very wise woman - was there. And I felt after the San Francisco, or around those dates, I couldn't feel a sense of when I wasn't behind that piano or with a man in my life. I couldn't find out who the woman was. Some of you may ask me, 'Why did you go to the men in your life?' and the truth is I felt they had an energy force, to a flame, that I couldn't find. When I went to the north shore and I just spent time walking up and down that beach with this medicine woman, I just began to feel the presence of Pele all over the island, even though I know she's not on that island. I just felt this deep little flame start to happen.



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