Aniversário da Tori Amos (XVI)

Surpresa! Hoje o átomo terá um post extemporâneo, em homenagem ao aniversário da Tori Amos. Eu sei que esses posts destoam dos demais, que provavelmente ninguém se interessa por ouvir as músicas dela só por causa deles, mas fazer o quê, já se tornou uma tradição que eu gosto de manter. E, esse ano, inclusive, a comemoração teria de ser bacana, pois Tori completa nada menos que 55 anos. Cinquenta e cinco. Eu realmente estou ficando velho.

Por causa disso, até pensei em fazer alguma coisa diferente, como quando ela fez 50, mas, como não consegui pensar em nada, decidi me ater ao tradicional e colocar uma letra de música. No caso, de uma das minhas preferidas, Giant's Rolling Pin, do álbum Unrepentant Geraldines. Parabéns, Tori, muitos anos de vida!

Giant's Rolling Pin
Letra e música: Tori Amos

Beth and Marlene's pies
with help from Caroline
after just one slice
you can uncover any lie
that's why the NSA
and now the FBI
want to be the ones who control
Beth and Marlene's pies
with help from Caroline
so basically that's why

I'm off to find the giant's rolling pin
legend says it does exist
if you don't stop looking for it
I'm off to find the giant's rolling pin
legend says it will bake for the world
(oh it will yes it really will)

In case we have
rolled out our little world too flat
then the giant's rolling pin
will roll the truth out
so that the whole world can dig in
to Beth and Marlene's pies

Everybody spies
so why the big surprise?
that is why the working woman
well deserves a slice
(Mississippi mud or Key lime?)
but now the nice taxman
in every state has tried
to say that it's in his jurisdiction to decide
who gets a bit of pie
so honestly that's why

I'm off to find the giant's rolling pin
legend says it does exist
if we don't stop looking for it
I'm off to find the giant's rolling pin
legend says it will bake for the world
(oh it will yes it really will)

If in fact we had
rolled our little world too flat
then the giant's rolling pin
would roll the truth out
so that the whole world can dig in
the whole world can dig in
to Beth and Marlene's pies
with help from Caroline
for a window of time you can see through any lie
with help from Caroline
and the giant's rolling pin