Tori on "Selkie" Songtext

von Tori Amos

Worum geht es in dem Song?

Der Songtext "Selkie" von Tori Amos erzählt von einer persönlichen Erfahrung, die die Inspiration für den Song war. Die ...

Selkie.
Selkie has her own little story because she might not have been written if the muses didn't interfere, which I kind of think they did.
I reckon...
I was looking out on the Indian River and something can happen at dusk when...
When you almost think you see things in the water.
And you really believe you do.
Now, there are all kinds of things in the water -it's brackish water so, it's part salt & part fresh.
And it's been known that some crocs can make their way up there-a long time ago but it's been known people talk about it.
And, of course, the manatees are very much there, which...
Which when they...
When you think you see them and you think you might be seeing a seal and there are dolphins that are there.
So, there are all kinds of creatures that come up on the Indian River.
And I was out there looking convinced that I was seeing something that I hadn't seen before.
And I had been reading about the Seal Women who have dual lives -a seal family and
Then a human family-and it so happens that one of my best friends, Johnny, was off to go get dinner-to get stuff to make dinner-and he just didn't come back!
And hour after hour after hour...
And I stopped thinking about...
I know this, this can happen though, I reckoned he'd be fine 'cause he loves to drive
And...
I just got taken on...
Into this story.
And he walks back several hours later and as he walks in the door, '
Selkie' was done.
I mean within a few minutes.
And I said '
Where have you been?' And something happened to him whereby he got on the turnpike -the Florida turnpike-and he couldn't get off for miles and miles and miles.
I mean, miles and miles, he had to go up north -he got pulled away!
He said, '
I was being pulled away not far from the ocean so that I couldn't get back!
I had to go all the way up, turn around and come back' and he said, '
I came straight back' and by the time that he walked in, it was done.
And...
Would I have been able to decipher the riddle?
I don't know.
I can't tell you (if) I would or I wouldn't
But there are many songs that never get finished.
There are many songs that are sitting there over the last twenty five years that...
That's it.
And they just sit there like relics and I can't, I can not finish them.
So, that could've happened to her.
She had other plans.