tempest

Tori Amos

Suffocating
I cannot breathe
Choking on anxiety
Is St. Cecilia
Warning me
I could lose myself
So easily

Cortisol raging
The demise of
My cathedral he seeks
Cortisol raging
He s ravenous
To control everything

Tempest dragging me
Down to somewhere
He s there
Tempest dragging me
Down to where
He ll watch me drown

He segregated me from me
Master of a quiet brutality
With St. Cecilia
Whispering
Without a voice
He won t hear you scream

Cortisol raging
Barely escaping
Barely can breathe
Cortisol raging
I must get to Indian country

Tempest dragging me
Down to somewhere
He s there
Tempest dragging me
Down to where
He ll watch me drown

Soon with a knock on your door
Father George
To your eyes
We are leaving
Soon, the gasoline girls
Fully infused
But soon will be leaving

By St. Paul s in fast pursuit
An ancient truth
Mirrored by Andromeda
Who timed her nurse maids

By St. Paul s
I spy a bridegroom
Who cries
She has left me
Swearing she s trapped
Behind a mask
And must be her own man

She s hit the road
To form her own
Goodbye girls
Gasoline girls
Electric band