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Tori Amos, "Riot Poof"
(1999)

You know what you know so you go
Break the terror
Or the urban spell

This alliance you say
"I'm on the threshold of greatness girl"
So you burn your pagoda
Through the Congo 'til there's
A broken bond
On the birth of the search
White trash my native son

It will all find its way in time

Blossom, riot poof

You know what you know so you go
Chain her to your flow
She bites through your dried lean meat
As she's going to the movie show

In a bath of glitter and a tiny shiver
She crawls through your java sea
Black Sahara I'm stepping in
To your space oddity

Tt will all find its way in time

Blossom, riot poof

The sun is warming
My man is moistening
On the bomb
On the bond
On the bomb


Thanks, Jess! (I think she suggested it ages ago, anyway.)

Most of what Tori has to say about "Riot Poof" relates back to homosexuality, though, in true Tori fashion, it's all barely more coherent than the song. You can read a bunch of quotes at Hereinmyhead.com, which is a wonderful site. My favorite:

"Well, that being a poof doesn't mean you're not a hunter, that you're not masculine, or a man. And also being feminine doesn't mean that you're not a hunter either."