Tori Amos fue violada....sin embargo de su experiencia sacó fuerzas, hasta para escribir una canción acerca de eso.
De una manera valiente, este mensaje la hizo convertírse en portavoz de Organizaciones de Víctimas de Abusos Sexuales, generando y ayudando a otras personas a recuperar fuerzas, luego de este hecho brutal.
Increíble, estremecedora e Impactante canción.
Del Disco "Little Earthquakes"
-- Tori; The Washington Post, March 22, 1992
"I'll never talk about it at this level again, but let me ask you. Why have I survived that kind of night, when other women didn't? How am I alive to tell you this tale when he was ready to slice me up? In the song I say it was Me and a Gun but it wasn't a gun. It was a knife he had. And the idea was to take me to his friends and cut me up, and he kept telling me that, for hours. And if he hadn't needed more drugs I would have been just one more news report, where you see the parents grieving for their daughter. And I was singing hymns, as I say in the song, because he told me to. I sang to stay alive. Yet I survived that torture, which left me urinating all over myself and left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and that now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability."
"I wrote it after I saw Thelma and Louise. And that had, humm, I had to let out all that incredible hurt and anger. The anger came. The song was written in the afternoon that I had seen Thelma and Louise and completed. It it had always been a capella. And when I started writing it, it was as if the blinded was on. I knew exactly what I wanted to say. I mean, I was almost in a trace writing that song. I was back there in that experience, and yet, another part of me was guiding it on. I felt like I was protected writing it, when it was over, when I had looked at what I had written. And the hardest part is performing it every night because, although I know I'm safe, a part of me has to go to that place to sing it. And what this whole process has taught me is, I'm not a victim. Although when I go in and sing it every night, there's a certain energy I bring to make it very real and then after the performance is over I can go and have an ice cream and have a life and say, 'this is over. I can talk about it and I have love in my life.' And it's really important to get to that stage."
De una manera valiente, este mensaje la hizo convertírse en portavoz de Organizaciones de Víctimas de Abusos Sexuales, generando y ayudando a otras personas a recuperar fuerzas, luego de este hecho brutal.
Increíble, estremecedora e Impactante canción.
Del Disco "Little Earthquakes"
Me and a Gun (Yo y una Pistola)
5am friday morning (5 de la Mañana del viernes )
thursday night far from sleep(la noche del Jueves, lejos de dormir)
i'm still up and driving(Todavía estoy en pie y manejando)
can't go home obviously(obviamente no me puedo ir a casa)
so i'll just change direction( Así que cambié de dirección)
cause they'll soon know where i live(porque ellos pronto sabrían donde vivo)
and i wanna live (Y yo quiero vivir)
got a full tank and some chips(tener el estanque lleno, y algunas papas fritas)
it was me and a gun (era yo, y una pistola)
and a man on my back (y un hombre en mi espalda)
and i sang "holy holy"( Y yo cantaba "Santo, santo")
as he buttoned down his pants( mientras él se desabrochaba los pantalones)
you can laugh (te puedes reir)
its kind of funny (es de alguna manera chistoso)
things you think (las cosas que piensas)
times like these (en momentos como ese)
like i haven't seen BARBADOS (como que yo no había visto BARBADOS)
so i must get out of this (así que tengo que salir de esta)
yes i wore a slinky red thing (Sí, yo vestía algo rojo muy ajustado)
does that mean i should spread (pero eso significa que debo tenderme)
for you, your friends (para tí, tus amigos)
your father, mr ed (tu padre, El Señor Ed)
it was me and a gun(era yo y una pistola)
and a man on my back(y un hombre en mi espalda)
but i haven't seen BARBADOS(pero yo no he visto BARBADOS)
so i must get out of this(Así que tengo que salir de esta)
and i know what this means (Y yo se lo que significa)
me and jesus a few years back(Yo y Jesús unos pocos años atrás)
used to hang(Colgabamos)
and he said "it's your choice babe(Y el me dijo "es tu opción chica)
just remember(solo recuerda)
i don't think you'll be back(No creo que estés de vuelta)
in 3 days time so you choose well"(En 3 días así que escoge bien")
tell me whats right(Dime que es lo que está bien)
is it my right to be on my stomach(es mi derecho estar en mi estómago)
of fred's seville (de la Sevilla de Fred)
it was me and a gun(era yo y una pistola)
and a man on my back(y un hombre en mi espalda)
but i haven't seen BARBADOS(pero yo no he visto BARBADOS)
so i must get out of this(así que tengo que salir de acá)
and do you know CAROLINA (y tú conoces CAROLINA)
where the biscuits(donde los bizcochos)
are soft and sweet(son suaves y dulces)
these things go through your head(esas cosas pasan por tu cabeza)
when there's a man on your back(cuando hay un hombre en tu espalda)
and you're pushed flat on your stomach(y tú eres empujada y aplastada sobre tu estómago)
it's not a classic cadillac( no es un cadillac clásico)
it was me and a gun(era yo y una pistola)
and a man on my back(y un hombre en mi espalda)
but i haven't seen BARBADOS(pero yo no he visto BARBADOS)
so i must get out of this(así que tengo que salir de acá)
i haven't seen BARBADOS(pero yo no he visto BARBADOS)
so i must get out of this(así que tengo que salir de acá)
5am friday morning (5 de la Mañana del viernes )
thursday night far from sleep(la noche del Jueves, lejos de dormir)
i'm still up and driving(Todavía estoy en pie y manejando)
can't go home obviously(obviamente no me puedo ir a casa)
so i'll just change direction( Así que cambié de dirección)
cause they'll soon know where i live(porque ellos pronto sabrían donde vivo)
and i wanna live (Y yo quiero vivir)
got a full tank and some chips(tener el estanque lleno, y algunas papas fritas)
it was me and a gun (era yo, y una pistola)
and a man on my back (y un hombre en mi espalda)
and i sang "holy holy"( Y yo cantaba "Santo, santo")
as he buttoned down his pants( mientras él se desabrochaba los pantalones)
you can laugh (te puedes reir)
its kind of funny (es de alguna manera chistoso)
things you think (las cosas que piensas)
times like these (en momentos como ese)
like i haven't seen BARBADOS (como que yo no había visto BARBADOS)
so i must get out of this (así que tengo que salir de esta)
yes i wore a slinky red thing (Sí, yo vestía algo rojo muy ajustado)
does that mean i should spread (pero eso significa que debo tenderme)
for you, your friends (para tí, tus amigos)
your father, mr ed (tu padre, El Señor Ed)
it was me and a gun(era yo y una pistola)
and a man on my back(y un hombre en mi espalda)
but i haven't seen BARBADOS(pero yo no he visto BARBADOS)
so i must get out of this(Así que tengo que salir de esta)
and i know what this means (Y yo se lo que significa)
me and jesus a few years back(Yo y Jesús unos pocos años atrás)
used to hang(Colgabamos)
and he said "it's your choice babe(Y el me dijo "es tu opción chica)
just remember(solo recuerda)
i don't think you'll be back(No creo que estés de vuelta)
in 3 days time so you choose well"(En 3 días así que escoge bien")
tell me whats right(Dime que es lo que está bien)
is it my right to be on my stomach(es mi derecho estar en mi estómago)
of fred's seville (de la Sevilla de Fred)
it was me and a gun(era yo y una pistola)
and a man on my back(y un hombre en mi espalda)
but i haven't seen BARBADOS(pero yo no he visto BARBADOS)
so i must get out of this(así que tengo que salir de acá)
and do you know CAROLINA (y tú conoces CAROLINA)
where the biscuits(donde los bizcochos)
are soft and sweet(son suaves y dulces)
these things go through your head(esas cosas pasan por tu cabeza)
when there's a man on your back(cuando hay un hombre en tu espalda)
and you're pushed flat on your stomach(y tú eres empujada y aplastada sobre tu estómago)
it's not a classic cadillac( no es un cadillac clásico)
it was me and a gun(era yo y una pistola)
and a man on my back(y un hombre en mi espalda)
but i haven't seen BARBADOS(pero yo no he visto BARBADOS)
so i must get out of this(así que tengo que salir de acá)
i haven't seen BARBADOS(pero yo no he visto BARBADOS)
so i must get out of this(así que tengo que salir de acá)
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Lo que dice Tori acerca de la canción:
I don't talk about the details because I can't, but it's freeing to sing that song [Me And A Gun]. I have to go in a trance to sing it. ... It gets exhausting singing it. But there's so much going on that nobody talks about, and I just found that out with myself after so many years of not talking."-- Tori; The Washington Post, March 22, 1992
"I'll never talk about it at this level again, but let me ask you. Why have I survived that kind of night, when other women didn't? How am I alive to tell you this tale when he was ready to slice me up? In the song I say it was Me and a Gun but it wasn't a gun. It was a knife he had. And the idea was to take me to his friends and cut me up, and he kept telling me that, for hours. And if he hadn't needed more drugs I would have been just one more news report, where you see the parents grieving for their daughter. And I was singing hymns, as I say in the song, because he told me to. I sang to stay alive. Yet I survived that torture, which left me urinating all over myself and left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and that now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability."
"I wrote it after I saw Thelma and Louise. And that had, humm, I had to let out all that incredible hurt and anger. The anger came. The song was written in the afternoon that I had seen Thelma and Louise and completed. It it had always been a capella. And when I started writing it, it was as if the blinded was on. I knew exactly what I wanted to say. I mean, I was almost in a trace writing that song. I was back there in that experience, and yet, another part of me was guiding it on. I felt like I was protected writing it, when it was over, when I had looked at what I had written. And the hardest part is performing it every night because, although I know I'm safe, a part of me has to go to that place to sing it. And what this whole process has taught me is, I'm not a victim. Although when I go in and sing it every night, there's a certain energy I bring to make it very real and then after the performance is over I can go and have an ice cream and have a life and say, 'this is over. I can talk about it and I have love in my life.' And it's really important to get to that stage."
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