with a strut into the room
with his hat cocked sure defiantly
he said “I. I have heard.
that you can play
the way I like it to
be played.”
I said, “I can play.
anyway that you want.
But first I want. I want
to know
Baby is it Sweet Sweet
Sweet the Sting
is it real this infusion-
can it heal
where others before have failed?
If so then somebody
Shake Shake Shake
me sane
‘cause I am inching
ever closer to the tip
of this scorpion’s tail”
He said “I laid my weapons
down with my pistol
fully loaded, a hunted man
to my root, will it end
or begin in your
cinnabar juice?”
is it Sweet Sweet
Sweet your Sting
is it real your infusion
can it heal
where others before have failed?
If so then somebody
Shake Shake Shake
me sane
‘cause I am inching
ever closer to the tip
of this scorpion’s tail
Love let me breathe
breathe you in
melt the confusion
until there is
there is you - union
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"This can be a place of being able to confront something that's out of balance. And it's an ancient practice that the bee shamans have been working with for thousands of years. They work with a tradition that forces you to look at those places that may need to be stung. And in order for you or for I to gain the sweetness... wisdom does not come without the sting."
Tori Amos, Diary Entry
"Elixirs and Herbs is a place that the passion that this woman has for her beliefs or the man that she loves, for the direction that humanity is going, is very much where she is exploring and allowing herself not only to heal what are wounds, but to allow her wounds to express themselves and this doesn't always have to be a place of victimization this sometimes is a place of being able to confront something that is out of balance and it is an ancient practice that the Bee shaman have been working with for thousands of years they work with a tradition that forces you to look at those places that may need to be stung and there's a song on this record in the Herbs and Elixirs garden called Sweet The Sting and in order for you or I to gain the sweetness, wisdom does not come without the sting."
Tori Amos, The Beekeeper Limited Edition Bonus DVD
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