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China by Tori Amos

Music, Lyrics, and Commentary by Tori Amos

“I love this coast…the north Cornish coast. Little did I realize, when this was made, that I would be living 15-20 minutes from here. I had no idea. I had another life. And I liked my life. But I was falling in love with this coast.

So, in a way, the love affair pulled me to people who also were drawn to it. Cindy Palmano, being a Devonshire lass, knew the coast very well. So it was her idea to come down. I remember being driven down in the night, coming from some performance somewhere, I have no idea where. So when I woke up to…oh… I was humbled by the stark, um, gorgeous place that I call home. With me, with Lisa Butler on make up, who I had known since the beginning. And we were all having a giggle, because I think being away from the city, the paranoia of the city. I think everybody felt like we were out of time.

This piano was built for me by the builder there. He’s a real stone mason type. And its not an actor, its what he does. So I was trying to find a way to get this little thing transported because I knew the ocean was going to take her when her tides were coming in. But I stayed and watched until every last rock of the stone piano was pulled back to sea. And when I said goodbye I didn’t realize that I was really seeing “I’ll see you soon.”

~ Tori Amos on “China” (From Fade to Red DVD)