Tori Amos - Hereinmyhead.com

muhammad my friend
it's time to tell the world
we both know it was a girl back in bethlehem
and on that fateful day
when she was crucified
she wore shiseido red and we drank tea
by her side

sweet sweet
used to be so sweet to me

muhammad my friend
i'm getting very scared
teach me how to love my brothers
who don't know the law
and what about the deal on that flying
trapeze got a peanut butter hand
but honey do drop in at the
dew drop inn

sweet sweet
between the boys and the bees

and moses i know
i know you've seen fire
but you've never seen fire
until you've seen pele blow
and i've never seen light
but i sure have seen gold
and gladys save a place for me
on your grapevine
till i get my own tv show

ashre ashre ashre ashre
and if i lose my cracker jacks at the
tidal wave i got a place
in the pope's rubber robe
muhammed my friend
it's time to tell the world
we both know it was a girl
back in bethlehem

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Tori performed this song live with Maynard James Keenan from Tool at a special RAINN Benefit concert on January 23, 1997. "So, this is one of my dearest friends. This is Maynard from Tool. And I call him up when I'm feeling terrible and he sings me lullabyes. So I asked him to come and sing tonight." This track was officially released on home video on the RAINN Benefit Concert VHS.

"I'm having a cup of tea with Muhammad and saying that there are as many belief systems as there are people; to not acknowledge that means chaos, really. Of course, I had to bring Gladys Knight into it. She's a bit of a goddess."

"I was singing in Christmas services (in '94); I was with my parents. I was watching the nativity, and after a while I said to myself, 'Wait a minute. There's something wrong here.' We were singing 'Away in a manger.'" (Amos sings the first two bars of "Away In A Manger," then sings the opening line to "Muhammad My Friend," with the identical first three notes.) "I kept getting more and more into the perfect little love with the lullaby of Away In A Manger. I started to get husky in the throat. I started to wonder who, with everybody speaking of the baby Jesus, should come up to the cradle. And I found that, of all people, I wanted to have a chat about it with Muhammad, because the prophet is the one who supposedly knows the law. So I decided that they needed to talk about the law - the law of the feminine that had been castrated with the birth of Christ."

"I wanted to know why the blueprint of the [Mary] Magdalene was not passed down..what was passed down was the whore that wiped Jesus' feet. We skipped the whole phase of the woman - having sexual desire, wisdom, passion. Being an equal to Jesus..."