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I just love this song from the very bottom of my heart. I used to listen to Tori Amos regularly when I was a vulnerable teenager - angst-ridden, self-conscious, uncertain, restless.
Her music helped me to realise, that it is ok not to be ok, that you don't have to be strong when you just can't at the moment, that you are allowed to embrace weakness and your own shortcomings, that you can have feminine traits even as a man identifying as heterosexual. Yes, I often pondered on topics such as mental health and gender, because I had to go the hard way when it comes to finding my own identity - especially when life was often turbulent around me.
Tori's songs brought me solace, when everything else seemed to crumble. That's why albums such as "Little Earthquakes", "Under The Pink", "Boys For Pele", "Scarlet's Walk" or her neo-classical-masterpiece "Night Of Hunters" belong to my all-time-favorites to this day.
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The cover was first released on "Freebird - A Tori Amos Tribute Compilation" by At Sea Compilations:
Tears on the sleeve of a man
Don't want to be a boy today
Heard the eternal footman
Bought himself a bike to race
And Greg he writes letters and burns his CDs
They say you were something in those formative years
Hold onto nothing as fast as you can
Well, still, pretty good year
Maybe a bright sandy beach
Is gonna bring you back, back, back
Maybe not, so now you're off
You're gonna see America
Pretty good year
Some things are melting now
Some things are melting now
Well, hey
What's it gonna take
'Til her baby's all right?
What's it gonna take
'Til her baby's all right?
And Greg, he writes letters with his birthday pen
Sometimes he's aware that they're drawing him in
Lucy was pretty, your best friend agreed
Well, still, pretty good year
A-ha, pretty good
credits
released March 4, 2022
Written by Tori Amos
Vocals/instruments by Zwischenlichten
Contrabass by Alexander Mosena
Recorded at Darkfolk-Werkstatt Helmbrechts
Mixed and mastered by Valkenstijn at the House Of Inkantation (Gotha)
