Born Myra Ellen Amos, the daughter of Reverend Edison Amos and Mary Ellen Amos, on August 22, 1963, in North Carolina. She was a piano prodigy from the beginning, playing by ear at age 2 1/2, and writing her own songs by age 4. It's been said that by age 5, she could play anything on the piano after hearing it only once. She won a scholarship at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland - the youngest person ever to be admitted there. She always ran into trouble there, as they discouraged her from composing her own music.
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Amber Waves Lyrics
Tori Amos
Well he lit you up
Like amber waves in his movie show
He fixed you up real good
Till I dont know you anymore
From ballet class to a lap dance
Straight to video
And the pool side news
Was that he would be
Launching you
Chorus:
Into every young mans
Bedroom - you gave it up
On dvd and magazine-
You gave it up
A private rite of passage
You gave it up
To every boys sweet dream
With their paper cuts
You said hes got a
Healing machine
It glows in the dark
Glows in the dark:
You say theres not a lot
Of me
Left anymore-
Just leave it alone.
But if youre buy, and you have
The time, tell the northern
Lights to keep shining - lately it seems like theyre drowning
He cold light you up
And summon every swan
Or the lakesie
Off to cabo san lucas
For some optical stimulus
Then you started to guess
Ther was someone else
Though his flint glass
Seeing all of you
Immersed in his sepia
Chorus
So I went by -
Cause I had the time,
And told the northern lights
To keep shining
They told me to tell you -
Theyre waving