Spark

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“Spark” is the first single from Tori’s fourth album From the Choirgirl Hotel. Amos wrote “Spark” after suffering a miscarriage, it deals with the hardship she experienced… Read More

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Spark Lyrics

[Verse 1]
She's addicted to nicotine patches
She's addicted to nicotine patches
She's afraid of the light in the dark
6:58 are you sure where my spark is?
Here, here, here

[Verse 2]
She's convinced she could hold back a glacier
(Between cotton balls and xylophones)
But she couldn't keep baby alive
(I'm getting old)
Doubting if there's a woman in there somewhere
Here, here, here

[Chorus]
You say you don't want it, again and again
But you don't, don't really mean it
You say you don't want it, the circus we're in
But you don't, don't really mean it
You don't, don't really mean it

[Verse 3]
If the divine master's plan is perfection
(Swing low)
Maybe next I'll give Judas a try
(Swing low, sweet chariot)
Trusting my soul to the ice cream assassin
Here, here, here

[Chorus]
You say you don't want it, again and again
But you don't, don't really mean it
You say you don't want it, the circus we're in
But you don't, don't really mean it
You don't, don't really mean it

[Bridge]
How many fates turn around in the overtime?
Ballerinas that have fins that you'll never find
You thought that you were the bomb, yes, well so did I
Say you don't want it, say you don't want it
How many fates turn around in the overtime?
Ballerinas that have fins that you'll never find
You thought that you were the bomb, yes, well so did I
Say you don't want it, say you don't want it

[Chorus]
Say you don't want it, again and again
But you don't, don't really mean it
You say you don't want it, the circus we're in
But you don't, don't really mean it
You don't, don't really mean it

[Outro]
She's addicted to nicotine patches
She's afraid of the light in the dark
6:58 are you sure where my spark is?
Here, here, here

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“Spark” is the first single from Tori’s fourth album From the Choirgirl Hotel.

Amos wrote “Spark” after suffering a miscarriage,
it deals with the hardship she experienced after the tragedy. In a 1998 interview for Deluxe magazine, Tori said:

“Spark” is about when I miscarried, in 1996. I was three months pregnant and very excited. All of a sudden I woke up one morning and started to feel bad. The songs started coming soon after. I was really angry at God. Going into a shopping mall and seeing some woman knock the head off her child, I’m going – ‘So this is fair?’ I don’t know where the spirit went, whether she picked another mummy, like, “OK, choose her, then! Hope you’re tone deaf!”

the songs “i i e e e” and “Playboy Mommy” from this album deals with the subject as well.