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Artist: Tori Amos
Canonical path: /tori-amos/smokey-joe
Related lyric paths: 6
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Smokey Joe
Read Smokey Joe lyrics by Tori Amos on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Smokey Joe
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[Pip I]
Smokey Joe you’re calling at the station
If I kill him there are complications
I did not ask for this
“Oh but Love yes you did”
Maybe it terrifies me
This quiet siege
Maybe it terrifies me
[Pip II]
It’s too easy
It’s too easy
To wish you harm
It’s too easy
You through black ice
At the bottom of the river
[Pip I]
Smokey Joe hey what’s a revelation
“That one’s past is not a destination
It is a road for fools
Who need empty approvals”
[Pip II]
My dark twin
The annihilating Feminine
Does not need
Civilizing
[Pip I]
Maybe it terrifies me
This quiet siege
Maybe it terrifies me
[Pip II]
It’s too easy
It’s too easy
To wish you harm
It’s too easy
You through black ice
At the bottom of the river
[Pip I]
Smokey Joe can you pass the pipe
“you have been blessed now go be wise.
It is a coward who will say he’s not afraid
Of dying when clearly he is potently alive”
[Pip II]
A songless robin
She became
He stole my sister Clitorides.
These silken rubber gloves
Choking his vitriolic tongue
[Pip I]
Maybe it terrifies me
This quiet siege
Maybe it terrifies me
This quiet siege
[Pip II]
It’s too easy
It’s too easy
To wish you harm
It’s too easy
You through black ice
At the bottom of the river
[Pip I and Pip II]
Smokey Joe is calling at the station
Calling at the station
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