Scarlet's Story
Commentary by Tori Amos
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"Going and visiting Virginia, there is a sweetness and a sadness because she's able to hear this voice that goes back hundreds of years, she's able to go back in time with this voice. And she's able to really see, sort of, the um, the innocence of America at that time, as a teenager. She sees some of it in 'Scarlet's Walk,' but it gets very mature, that voice in "Scarlet's Walk," it's all-knowing America when she talks to Scarlet about what happened. But in 'Virginia,' you know, she's a young girl. And I guess Scarlet is trying to go back in time and talk to America as that teenager and say, 'Hey, you know, you might not wanna be so trusting,' or, 'Hey, you know, you might wanna think about this before you stop speaking your language here, here and here and give it all up and renounce what your soul knew as true.' Oh, all those things that you want to tell somebody who's a teenager."
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Amos, Tori, "Virginia," Scarlet Stories, Epic Records, 2002.
"Going and visiting Virginia, there is a sweetness and a sadness because she's able to hear this voice that goes back hundreds of years, she's able to go back in time with this voice. And she's able to really see, sort of, the um, the innocence of America at that time, as a teenager. She sees some of it in 'Scarlet's Walk,' but it gets very mature, that voice in "Scarlet's Walk," it's all-knowing America when she talks to Scarlet about what happened. But in 'Virginia,' you know, she's a young girl. And I guess Scarlet is trying to go back in time and talk to America as that teenager and say, 'Hey, you know, you might not wanna be so trusting,' or, 'Hey, you know, you might wanna think about this before you stop speaking your language here, here and here and give it all up and renounce what your soul knew as true.' Oh, all those things that you want to tell somebody who's a teenager."
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Amos, Tori, "Virginia," Scarlet Stories, Epic Records, 2002.
