Текст песни Tori On "16 Shades Of Blue" - Tori Amos

16 Shades (Of Blue) I didn't get (Paul) Cezanne for the longest time and I don't know if I get it now.
I get it in my way.
But when people talk about art sometimes it can be fascinating to me!
But I don't pretend I know half of what they're talking about just because if I don't hear it, then it doesn't make sense to me.
And then when I do hear it, I'm not listening to them anyway because I don't understand them so, if you hear the rhythms and the counter, maybe contrapuntal lines happening when you are looking at something, then I began to know that at least I understand the feeling that the artist was invoking.
I might not understand it again like certain art lovers do and it's important for me to say that because somebody came up to me and just said '
Oh, so are you becoming a painter now? 'and you think '
Are you kidding?'
I'm not that delusional.
I have no ability to paint and as a sonic artist,
I go to the visual artist in order to not get trapped in a structure.
When I'm listening to other musical artists, I have to be very careful and be very aware that although motivated, I'm not taking that structure exactly.
And so, that's why I go to other mediums sometimes to really get -to take a popovich -whether it's at an exhibition somewhere in a different country or whether it's picking up books along the way and then taking them as we travel.
So, 16 Shades (Of Blue) could only come once, I guess, I was battling myself with the idea of turning fifty.
A few things had to align for me to get it and looking at The Black (Marble) Clock by Cezanne and reading about how he approached his work with quotes from all kinds of writers from Hemingway to Rioca and because of the writers and their perception, I started to understand it.
And Rioca talking about how Cezanne had sixteen shades of blue sometimes on his palette, so therefore, it all came together.
I turn a page, looked at The Black (Marble) Clock, no hands, battling my own issues with age -so battling it that I've been hearing from teenagers, twenty-something's and thirty-something's, that I...
You know, middle-aged women don't have the copyright on battling age, so move over sister, it's like Oh, get off the cross!
Having heard all that, it just all came together and while I was supposed to be working on Weatherman at Christmas, 16 Shades (Of Blue) was written in a couple of days -like that.
After years and years and years of getting books by Cezanne and frustrating a lot of people, finally it came together within forty-eight hours