Des'ree - You Gotta Be (Eng.3 Confalonieri)

Listen as your day unfolds
Challenge what the future holds
Try and keep your head up to the sky
Lovers, they may cause you tears
Go ahead release your fears
Stand up and be counted
Don't be ashamed to cry

You gotta be
You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser
You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger
You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together
All I know, all I know, love will save the day

Herald what your mother said
Read the books your father read
Try to solve the puzzles in your own sweet time
Some may have more cash than you
Others take a different view
My oh my, heh, hey

You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser
You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger
You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together
All I know, all I know, love will save the day

Don't ask no questions, it goes on without you
Leaving you behind if you can't stand the pace
The world keeps on spinning
You can't stop it, if you try to
This time it's danger staring you in the face

Remember
Listen as your day unfolds
Challenge what the future holds
Try and keep your head up to the sky
Lovers, they may cause you tears
Go ahead release your fears
My oh my heh, hey, hey

You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser
You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger
You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together
All I know, all I know, love will save the day

You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser
You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger
You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together
All I know, all I know, love will save the day

- from the album I Ain't Moving (1994)

Tori Amos 2 (Eng.4 Confalonieri)

"Sweet the Sting" (from: The Beekeeper)

a) ALBUM VERSION



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


b) LIVE

Tori Amos 1 (Eng.4 Confalonieri)

Tori Amos commenting on her song "Sweet The Sting" (from THE BEEKEEPER DVD VIDEO)




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's exploring and allowing herself to not only 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's out of balance. and it's 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 those places that may need to be stung. and there is 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.


You can read the rest of the DVD transcript here: www.hereinmyhead.com/collect/beekeeper/dvd.html

Have Yourself A Merry Little Xmas (Twisted Sister)

Have Yourself A Merry Little Xmas (Judy Garland)

Have Yourself A Merry Little Xmas (Katie Melua)

Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Let your heart be light
From now on,
our troubles will be out of sight

Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
Make the Yuletide gay,
From now on,
our troubles will be miles away.

Here we are as in olden days,
Happy golden days of yore.
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more.

Through the years
We all will be together,
If the Fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.
And have yourself A merry little Christmas now.