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The original version of Talula begins with the intro-lyrics: congratulate you
said you had a double tongue
balancing cake and bread
say goodbye to a glitter girl
which was later replaced by the Tornado Mix intro-lyrics: he's chasing tornados
i'm just waiting calmly
chasing her, hey
The Tornado Mix also ends with extra lyrics: he's chasing tornados
and i'm just waiting calmly
"And it keeps moving into the dance of Talula, and her desperately trying to dance, desperately trying to figure out the whole idea of loss: it must be worth loosing if it's worth something. So if I feel like I am loosing something, at lease I valued something enough to loose it in the first place... it's going back into that train of thought. Talula
is very much a riddle. The loss of Eric in my life was... it felt like half of me walked out the door. And Talula came as a nursery rhyme, my little dance that I would do when things were so sad. Because I started thinking 'but God, I have these feelings, which means...' we shared so many moments that I value, I really valued that, so what a gift that I can feel this loss, that I am not so numb, that I haven't cut myself off so much, and once I could feel the loss then I started to feel free. I want to dance and go 'yeah, I want to be with Talula. I want to be able to dance through the people that come in and go out of your life. I want to learn how to dance with the gifts when they come and the gifts when they need to take a different route.'"
-- Tori; B Side, 05/96
�Talula ... when I wrote this, my mother was sitting in a chair, and I�d been playing for a few hours. She was fading in and out of sleep. I�d been going through some of my blood, guts and widow�s tunes. And all of a sudden I needed to breathe. I started playing Talula, and it became like a breath, �cause I needed freedom from all these songs that where showing me my monsters. Talula started to show me how to dance. And my mother began to wake up. The song is really a riddle. Talula just came to me, telling me her name. A lot of the times I�m just trying to interpret what I�m seeing on the other side. A name holds an energy, like anything else. Look at Ruby Tuesday. I think Talula became about rhythm and tone an sensuality. It ain�t fuckin� Catherine. There�s something in there about West Indian dance. And yet it�s a very classic name, too. Talula really just started to represent all women to me - women that let themselves dance - for themselves.� (more lyric interpretation here)
-- Tori; Vox magazine, Apr 1996
"I had to write for my freedom. I was shattered. I had to begin to look at myself. I tried to get energy from different men in my life. I got my vampires license. In Talula I�m begging this concept of ideal woman to come alive in myself, feeling afraid of losing someone. If it matters, it must be something worth losing. Each song began to be a piece of claiming myself.�
-- Tori; Making Music, Jan 1996
The song Talula was written on the harpsichord.
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