Scarlet's Story
Commentary by Tori Amos
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"The Southwest has this affect on her where she looks deeper into things, and she's able to hear the ancestors more clearly. And she's been to a place where, a long time ago, there was a massacre that happened to the Apache, to mostly women and children. And there's a voice that she begins to hear, of an old woman that's sitting by a fire. She's hearing it in her dreamtime and she's hearing it more and more with every day. And she starts to follow this trail, this voice, this story that she's picking up historically. So on some level, I guess, the aboriginal idea of songlines has begun to sort of wrap itself around, that another culture is sort of supporting this concept, that a song is determining where she goes. But if you don't know the song, you can't get in to the next landspace. That's how songlines work."
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Amos, Tori, "wampum prayer," Scarlet Stories, Epic Records, 2002.
"The Southwest has this affect on her where she looks deeper into things, and she's able to hear the ancestors more clearly. And she's been to a place where, a long time ago, there was a massacre that happened to the Apache, to mostly women and children. And there's a voice that she begins to hear, of an old woman that's sitting by a fire. She's hearing it in her dreamtime and she's hearing it more and more with every day. And she starts to follow this trail, this voice, this story that she's picking up historically. So on some level, I guess, the aboriginal idea of songlines has begun to sort of wrap itself around, that another culture is sort of supporting this concept, that a song is determining where she goes. But if you don't know the song, you can't get in to the next landspace. That's how songlines work."
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Amos, Tori, "wampum prayer," Scarlet Stories, Epic Records, 2002.
