Tori Amos - Hereinmyhead.com

(daniel bocking):
john lennon was shot here at the entrance to the dakota building lennon was shot four times with a 38 caliber gun in what seems to be a totally senseless killing

(dr. edison amos):
the 2nd amendment gives the right of the people to keep and bear arms. this is a dispute which is going on in america now. we should work diligently to keep this second amendment in place for any individual with responsibility. let me repeat again, responsibility and boundaries of those who are privileged to be a part of all of these 27 amendments of the constitution of the united states of america, plus the declaration of independence.

(george w. bush):
i believe that uhhh... people who are gonna commit crimes shouldn't have guns.

(george bush, sr.):
i guess my reaction is the same as every other father's, every other grandfather. my heart goes out to the people, to the victims. because i don't understand how kids can be out there... making bombs. and uhh..and uhh, families being totally unaware of it. with this culture going on. i'm just troubled by it as anybody else. and i don't know any answers.

happiness is a warm gun
happiness is a warm gun, mama
happiness is a warm gun, mama

mother superior jump the gun
mother superior jump the gun
mother superior jump the gun
mother superior jump the gun
mother superior jump the gun
i said, mother superior jump the gun
i said, i'm gonna
mother superior jump the gun
mother superior jump the gun
and i said-a
mother superior jump the gun
i said, i'm gonna [?], you baby

she's not a girl who misses much

get these 10 bill of rights...each one gives the people a special right

she's not a girl who misses much

this 2nd one is a right to bear arms

she's well acquainted with the touch
she's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand

keep me down
i need a fix 'cause i
i said, i need a fix 'cause i...
i need a....
need, i need, i need
i need a
i need
i need a
mama, i need a...
i need
mama
i need...my boy
i need
'cause happiness is a warm gun
happiness is a warm gun, mama
happiness is a warm guuuuuuuuuuun, mama

i need a
i need a
i need
she's not a girl who misses much
she's not a girl who misses much

mother superior jump the gun

i need a fix 'cause i'm going down
i need a fix 'cause i'm going down
i need a fix 'cause i am going down
i need a fix..
i....
mama, i need a fix 'cause i'm going down

down to the bits that i left uptown
down to the bits that i left uptown
down to the bits that i left uptown
i said, i need a fix cause i'm going down
i need i need i need
mother superior jump the gun
mother superior jump the gun

mama....
mama....
happiness is..
happiness...
mama.....
mama...
a-mama....

n/a

She feels at home on the range; ear-protectors in position, man-shaped paper target up and waiting for her.

She imagines, a little, she remembers, a little and she sights and squeezes and as her time on the range begins she feels rather than sees the head and the heart obliterate. The smell of cordite always makes her think of the fourth of July.

You use the gifts God gave you. That was what her mother had said, which makes their falling out even harder, somehow.

Nobody will ever hurt her. She'll just make her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away.

It's not about the money. It's never about the money.

-- written by Neil Gaiman

Happiness is a Warm Gun, the first track established for the release, is also recreated in an innovative fashion. The cut opens with a re-reading of a newspaper article written after John Lennon�s assassination, which Amos links to the original song�s creation. "[Lennon] saw an ad for a gun," she says, "and he was murdered by a gun years later. It started to strike me that this was going to be a canvas, a backdrop for the fact that no changes have really been made [in gun control] that are effective."
-- Tori; ICE Magazine, Sept 2001

"One of the last people Mark David Chapman called before he killed John Lennon was an escort service. And we don't know if they had sex or if they just talked, but he told her to 'be silent.' So this is sung through the eyes of that call girl."
[Alternative Press, Oct 2001]
-- Tori; Alternative Press, Oct 2001

Last year's covers album, Strange Little Girls, led to some interesting conversations. "I'm open about some of them. Slayer sent T-shirts; that was fun. But some of the messages and conversations were very personal. Yoko Ono had to approve Happiness Is A Warm Gun, and she was absolutely divine. Neil Young had to hear Heart of Gold, because I changed the lyrics. But I didn't change a word of Eminem's ['97 Bonnie and Clyde]. Eminem and I have the same lawyer, which is handy."
-- Tori; Blender Magazine, Nov 2002