Cover art for Doughnut Song by Tori Amos

Doughnut Song

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Jan. 22, 19961 viewer10K views

Doughnut Song Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Had me a trick and a kick and your message
You’ll never gain weight from a doughnut hole
Then thought that I could decipher your message
There’s no one here dear, no one at all

[Chorus]
And if I’m wasting all your time this time
Maybe you never learned to take
And if I’m hanging on to your shade
I guess I’m way beyond the pale

[Verse 2]
And southern men can grow gold, can grow pretty
(You can tell me it’s over, it's over)
Blood can be pretty like a delicate man
(You can tell me over, over your shoulder)
Copper to steel to a hinge that is faltered
(You can tell me it’s over and over)
That lets you in, lets you in, lets you in
(Come in, Houston)

[Chorus]
And if I’m wasting all your time this time
I guess you never learned to take
And if I’m hanging on to your shade
I guess I’m way beyond the pale
[Bridge]
Something’s just, something’s just
Keeping you numb

[Verse 3]
You told me last night you were a sun now
With your very own devoted satellite
Happy for you and I am sure that I hate you
Two sons too many, too many able fires, hey, yes


[Chorus]
And you’ve been wasting all my time this time (I saw you)
(You can tell me it’s over, it's over)
I said you never learned to take
(You can tell me over, over your shoulder)
And if I’m hanging on to your shade
I guess I’m way beyond the pale
I guess I’m way beyond the pale

[Outro]
Had me a trick and a kick and your message
You’ll never gain weight from a doughnut hole

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“There were so many things that I didn’t allow myself to do when I was in this relationship, and I think Eric [Rosse] would tell you the same. All sorts of things you see which you can be finally honest about. Like Doughnut Song, the last I worked on. There’s a bitter sweet quality about it … There’s a sweetness to becoming a woman that the virgins don’t have. They have a physical sweetness, but once you claim the woman… Yes I want to wring their [men’s] necks sometimes – those I fall in love with – yet there’s much more of an understanding.” [Making Music – Jan 1996]

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  1. 9.
    Girl
  2. 10.
    Winter
  3. 13.
    China
  4. 15.
    Mother
  5. 18.
    Honey
  6. 23.
    God
  7. 33.
    Horses
  8. 40.
    Bliss
  9. 41.
    Suede
  10. 45.
    Lust
  11. 50.
    Doughnut Song
  12. 54.
    Iieee
  13. 61.
    Spark
  14. 63.
    Cruel
  15. 70.
    Sugar
  16. 74.
    Mary
  17. 84.
    Merman
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Released on
January 22, 1996
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